Personal:

Date of Birth : 20 October, 1958
Marital status : Married, one daughter (settled in Bhavnagar, Gujarat)

Education:

Ph.D. Soils, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. (1984)
M.Sc.(Ag) Soils, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. (1980)

Employment:

IIT Bombay

• Head (24.10.2017 - To Date)
  Centre of Studies in Resources Engineering (CSRE)
  Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB), India
  

• Professor (01.09.2014 - To Date)
  CSRE, IITB, India
  

• Associate Professor (05.03.2009 - 31.08.2014)
  CSRE, IITB, India
  

• Principal Research Scientist (28.03.2005 - 04.03.2009)
  CSRE, IITB, India
  

• Research Scientist Grade I (18.12.1995 - 27.03.2005)
  CSRE, IITB, India
  

• Research Scientist (21.01.1986 - 17.12.1995)
  CSRE, IITB, India
  

Other Organizations

• Junior Technical Officer (25.06.1985 - 16.01.1986)
  Central Soil and Water Conservation Research and
  Training Institute, ICAR, Bellary, India

• British Council Visiting Researcher (1991 - for three months)
  Aston University, UK

• INSA Visiting Researcher (1999 - for one month)
  International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), Philippines

• JSPS Visiting Researcher (2002 - for three months)
  National Agricultural and Biological Research Organization (NARO),
  Tsukuba/Japan

• Associate Faculty Member (2007 - 2018)
  CTARA, IITB

• Adjunct Faculty (21.03.2011 - 20.03.2017)
  Edith Cowan University, Perth

• Visiting Associate Professor (05.06.2013 - 05.08.20)
  University of Tokyo