Reviewed over 300 Research Papers for various National and International Journals.
Reviewed more than 55 Projects for DST, IARI, CSIR (HRD) and other funding agencies.
Associated with 66 (Ph.D. + M.Tech) works as research guide, External Examiner,
co-supervisor (3) and actg. research guide(2)
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.
Technical Books Publications
Rastogi A K, Devika N and Elizabeth A - BTEX Removal by PSO and Inverse Solutions by DE- Lap Lambert Academic Publishing, Germany, pp327, 2015, ISBN: 978-3-659-76278-9.
Rastogi A K, Jha N and Choudhary P - AEM Application in Groundwater Hydrology and FEM simulation of RC well - LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, Germany, 2012, ISBN 978-3-659-15590-1.
Rastogi A K, Rosemary C and Vidhya M - PSO and DE application in Groundwater Hydrology - LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, Germany, 2014, ISBN 978-3-659-58042-0.
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, 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, 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, Germany,2009, pp. 331, ISBN 978-3-639-20736-1.
Expert National Board of Accreditation to assess M. Tech. Program of Hydraulic Engineering, College of Engineering Trivandrum, Feb 8-10, 2013.
Chaired the Session Water Resources Engineering in Fourth National Conference on Emerging Vistas of Technology in 21st Century, Organised by Parul Institute of Technology, Vadodara, May 10-11, 2013.
Delivered a key note address entitled Recent Advances in Groundwater Hydrology in Fourth National Conference on Emerging Vistas of Technology in 21st Century, Organised by Parul Institute of Technology, Vadodara, May 10-11, 2013.
Delivered an Expert Lecture entitled Emerging Techniques in Groundwater Hydrology (inverse modeling for sustainable development of water resources) in Advances in Hydrology and Water Resources Engineering Organised by S P College of Engg, Visnagar, Oct. 17, 2013.
Main Convener of the Session : Groundwater Systems Planning and Management; also Chaired the session in AOGS AGU 2012 Joint Assembly held at Singapore, August 13-17, 2012. In Hydrology section 23 sessions were held. Delegates from 60 countries spanning across five continents participated in the event.
External Expert on Research and Recognition Committee for the Board of Studies Civil Engineering appointed by the Vice Chancellor University of Mumbai
Invited to a specially convened meeting by National Area Rain-Fed Authority Ministry of Agriculture, to re- examine the estimation of groundwater recharge in the country, February 13, 2009, New Delhi. Proposal to establish a National Groundwater Modeling Center for groundwater modeling for the entire country has been accepted as a recommendation of this National Committee to the Government of India.
Co- Convener: Groundwater Resource Management in Hard Rock Areas - International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS) and International Association of Hydrogeologist (IAH) Joint Convention, Hyderabad, Sept. 6-12, 2009
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
Member Technical Programme Committee International Conference on Green Technologies ICGT 2012 Trivandrum Dec.18-20.
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.
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.