OTHER ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES
  • Member expert selection committees IITs, UPSC, NGRI etc

  • External Expert on Research and Recognition Committee for the Board of Studies Civil Engineering appointed by the Vice Chancellor University of Mumbai

  • Invited as Judge from the Western Zone of India for National Science Seminar - 2008 on the topic of "Water Crisis on Earth - Problems and Remedies" on 3rd October, 2008 at Kolkata.

  • Invited Lecture on Parameter Estimation in Porous Media in DST sponsored brain storming workshop on 'Application of Advanced Soft Computing Techniques in Geo- Spatial Data Analysis' Sept. 22-23, 2008, Dept. of Civil Engg, IIT Bombay.

  • Invited Lecture on Groundwater Modeling by Finite Element in QIP short term course on 'Recent Trends in Water Resources Systems Planning and Management' Nov. 3-7, 2008. Dept. of Civil Engg, IIT Bombay.

  • Volume Editor AOGS (Hydrological Sciences)

    • Member Advisory Committee, Dept. of Civil and Environment Engineering, VJTI, Mumbai
  • Member Board of Studies of Dept. of Civil and Water Management Engineering SGGS Institute of Engineering and Technology - Nanded

  • Invited as Expert on academic evaluation process Dept. of Civil and Water Management Engineering, SGGS Institute of Engineering and Technology -

  • Member Expert Panel - Indian National Committee on Groundwater, Govt. of India
  • Member Expert Panel - Indian National Committee on Hydraulics, Govt. of India
  • Associated with 54 (Ph.D. + M.Tech) works as research guide, External Examiner, co-supervisor (3) and actg. research guide(2)
  • Presented a paper 'Controlled Subsurface Recharge Schemes to Enhance Groundwater Storage in Aquifers at 1st World Aqua Congress, organised by Aqua Foundation, World Habitat Centre, New Delhi, Nov 28-30, 2007
  • Delivered expert lectures in DST Training Course on "Modeling Hydrological Systems" at Imphal, May 29-30, 2007
  • Invited to present views before the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Water Resources at Parliament House Annexe on the Interlinking of Rivers on June 20, 2006. The river linking project is estimated to cost an unprecedented Rs 5,60,000 crore over a span of 15 years and, if undertaken, will be the most ambitious project of the Govt. of India.
  • Member of the International Scientific Committee for the 4th International Conference on Water Resources and Environment Research and the 31st Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium to be held from April 15-17, 2008 at the Adelaide, Australia
  • Member of the International Groundwater Conference (IGC 2007) held at Coimbatore Agriculture University - Coimbatore

  • Member of the International Groundwater Conference (IGC 2012) to be held at Aurangabad

  • Invited by TERI (The Energy Research Institute) New Delhi to deliver a talk on Importance of Gro undwater Modeling in Water Management on June 21, 2006
  • Delivered expert lecture on "Water Resources Engineering in Civil Engineering" and Chaired a session at National Conference on Civil Engineering- Trends, Issues and Challenges, Organised by Faculty. of Tech. And Engg, MSU, Baroda, Mrch 11-12, 2006.
  • Delivered invited lectures in advanced DST Program on Groundwater Flow and Mass Transport Modelling at Dept. of Geology, Andhra University, Vishakapatnam January 27-28, 2006.
  • Chaired a session in All Indian Seminar on Challenging Problems in Water Resources Management and Development, Organised by Inst. of Engg. and IWRS, Nagpur, Nov 12-13, 2005

  • Delivered invited lectures in Advanced Short Term DST Training Course on "Groundwater Flow and Mass Transport Modelling for the Assessment and Management of Aquifers" at Water Technology Centre, Coimbatore, October 14-15, 2005.
  • Delivered expert lectures in Short Term DST Training Course on "Numerical Simulation of Groundwater Flow and Mass Transport for Effective Management of Aquifers" at Centre for Earth Science Studies, Thiruvananthpuram (Trivendrum), August 9-10, 2005
  • Gave invited lecture on the Importance of Groundwater Modeling at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, National University Singapore on June 24, 2005. Participated in AOGS 2005 at Suntec Convention Centre Singapore June 20-24, 2005 and presented a research paper on inverse modeling.
  • Guest of Honour and delivered invited lecture on the National Hazards Mitigation by Interlinking of Rivers Project, in India on April 7, 2005 at the Civil Engg Student Association at MGM College of Engg and Tech.,Navi Mumbai.
  • Delivered expert lectures in Advanced DST Program on Mathematical Modeling of Groundwater in Mining Area at CMRI, Dhanbad, March 15-17, 2005
  • Delivered invited lectures on Groundwater Flow Modeling by Finite Element, Inverse Modeling in Groundwater and Modeling of various Groundwater Systems at NGRI, Hyderabad, Dec. 13-14, 2004
  • Visting professor at the Univ. of Incheon, Dept. of Civil and Env. Engg, South Korea to deliver 42 lectures in Goundwater Engineering from August-November, 2004
  • Delivered several seminars at the Incheon University. Gave invited lectures at the Inha University, November 2, 2004, Seoul National University, November 8, Dongguk Univ, November 10 and KICT- Water Resources Division, South Korea, November 16, 2004
  • Visting professor at the Univ. of Auckland, Dept. of Civil and Env. Engg to deliver 20 lectures in Groundwater Hydrology from March 01-31, 2004
  • Delivered Key Note Address on Numerical Modelling of Groundwater Systems at the International conference on Water and Environment (WE 2003) held at RRL Bhopal, Dec 15-18, 2003. Chaired two sessions on Groundwater pollution and Water resources and was on the panel of experts along with those from USA, France, Italy, Australia and UK to discuss issues about water resources research with the delegates.
  • Delivered Key Note Address on Importance of Groundwater Models as Tools for Effective Water Management at the International Conference on the Solutions of Water Shortage and Instream Flow Problems in Asia , Incheon Regional Environmental Technology Development Centre, Incheon, South Korea, Nov. 17-19, 2003.
  • Reviewed over 250 Research Papers for various National and International Journals.
  • Reviewed more than 50 Projects for DST, IARI, CSIR (HRD) and other funding agencies.
  • AICTE expert to examine and recommend the PG Programme on Integrated River Basin Planning and Management by National Water Academy (Govt. of India) at Pune (June 2002).
  • AICTE expert to examine and recommend the ME Programme in Water Resources Engineering by Government College of Engineering at Aurangabad (June 2002).
  • Referee to examine the research works for the Roorkee University KHOSLA AWARDS.

  • Gave invited lecture in the area of Ground Water Systems Planning and Management at the UNESCO- International Hydrological Program, at Anna niversity, Dec 2001, Chennai. Also Chaired a session in the area of Groundwater Flow and Transport Modeling. Was in the panel of experts to finalilse the recommendations of the workshop for the UNESCO, DST and the Minstry of Water Resources.
  • Member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the above workshop
  • Appointed as Associate Dean Planning of IIT Bombay From November 15, 2000 to Dec. 10, 2003.

  • Co chaired the session in Water Resources for the International Conference in Civil Engineering, IISc Bangalore, July 2001
  • Appointed Chairman of the committee of experts by UGC to evaluate the performance of Centre of Water Resources, Anna University, Chennai, March, 1999.
  • Chaired session in Water Resources for the National Conference - HYDRO 99, at Nagpur, 1999.
  • Chaired session in Water Resources Engineering for International Conference on Water, Environment, Ecology, Socio-economics and Health Engineering- WEE-SHE - 99, Oct.1999, Seoul, Korea.
  • Invitee to the Brain Storming Session on Ground Water Modelling (sponored by DST) held at Jodhpur, 1999.
  • Delivered invited lecture at Inchon University, Inchon, South Korea, in the emerging area of Inverse Aquifer Modeling for Large System Simulations, Oct. 1999.
  • Member of International Advisory Committee for the International Conference on Water, Environment, Ecology, Socio-economics and Health Engineering- WEE-SHE - 99, Oct.1999, Seoul, Korea.
  • Added experiments on electrical analog modeling to simulate flow through porous media for B.Tech.Fluid Mechanics Lab and M.Tech. advanced fluid Mechanics Lab.
  • Worked as Associate Faculty in the Dept. of Env. Engineering, Humboldt State University, California, USA from 1987-1988 for one year. Carried out post - doctoral research work with Prof. Robert Willis and Prof. Brad Finney in the emerging area of Systems Optimisation.
  • Visited some water resources engineering institutes in Germany and France.
  • Gave invited lecture series in the emerging areas of Water Resources Engineering at the Regional Research Lab. Bhopal.
  • Invited by the GSDA - Govt. of Maharashtra, to give inaugral lectures to their officers.
  • Gave lectures at BHU, Univ. of roorkee, MSU- Baroda, NGRI Hyderabad and invited lectures in IWWA / IE seminar covering various aspects of systems approach to groundwater.
  • Special invitee to the International Groundwater (IGW89) followup work shop at NGRI Hyderabad to finalise R and D areas in groundwater.
  • Gave lectures in the short term QIP courses held in our department.
  • Member of Important selection commitee

  • Worked as GATE Examinations paper setter and examiner.
  • Worked as Convenor Dept. Maintenance Committee, Member of dept. Computer Committee, dept. Time Table Committee, and Dept. Undergraduate Committee and Institute's Undergraduate Program Committee, B. Tech. Seminar Coordinator for 5 years
  • As Associate Dean Planning attended a specially convened workshop at IIT Kanpur (Sept. 23-24, 2002) to present IIT Bombay policy modifications towards maintenance and rehabilitation of old buildings and on the construction of a new (1068 rooms) hostel and (700 capacity) cafeteria building. Second work shop was held in May 5-7, 2003 on Institute Works where outsourcing of various facilities and estate maintenance activities were discussed as the major challenging issues. Was co - convenor of this workshop.
  • Awarded National Scholarship for Higher Studies Abroad by the Govt. of India in the year 1979 - 1983.

  • Awarded BOYS - CAST (Better Opportunities for Young Scientists in Chosen Areas of Science and Technology) Fellowship by the DST in the year 1987
  • Got the Best Lecture of the Year Award by IWWA for the lecture delivered at its Baroda center in the year 1992.
  • Received Third Best Paper of the Year Award by IWWA in the year 1993.
  • Received Third Best Paper of the Year Award by IWWA in the year 1995
  • Visited Australia, France, Germany, Kuwait, NewZealand, Singapore, Spain, South Korea, Thailand,UK and USA. Visits to many of these countries were made in pursuit of some academic engagements involving teaching, research and international conference participation.

     Research Monograph Publications
  • Rastogi A K, Snehlata S, Lila Arun and Ajmera T ANN, SA and GA Application in Groundwater Hydrology - LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing , Saarbrucken Germany, pp. 361, 2011, ISBN 978-3-8454-7170-9.
  • Kulkarni N H and Rastogi A K - Numerical Experiments on Solute Transport in Ground Water Flow Systems, LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing , Saarbrucken Germany, pp148, 2011. ISBN 978-3-8454-4253-2.
  • Rastogi A K, Aparna B, Sanjeeta K and Sunitha K Modeling and Inverse Modeling in Groundwater Hydrology VDM Verlag, Saarbrucken, (W. Germany) 2010, pp 404. ISBN 978-3-639-22961-5.
  • Ukarande S K and Rastogi A K - Numerical Modeling of Coastal Aquifers-VDM Verlag, Saarbrucken, (W. Germany) 2009, pp. 184, ISBN 978-3-639-17552-3.
  • Huggi V P and Rastogi A K - Estimation of System Parameters in Groundwater Systems - VDM Verlag, Saarbrucken, (W. Germany) 2009, pp. 331, ISBN 978-3-639-20736-1.

    Text Book Publication
    Rastogi A K - Numerical Groundwater Hydrology -Penram International Publication, Mumbai, pp.980, 2007, ISBN 81- 87972-31- 9.

            The book is written for undergraduate and graduate students of civil engineering, water resources engineering, environmental engineering, agriculture engineering and earth sciences, and for those who are pursuing a degree or diploma course in the areas of water resources development, water resources management, hydrogeology, geohydrology and centers of environmental science and engineering.