Awards & Recognition   

  • Recipient of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Fellowship, 1998.
  • Member International Executive Scientific   Advisory Committee of the WORKSHOP ON AGRICULTURAL AIR   QUALITY: STATE OF THE SCIENCE, June 2006, Washington   DC. 
  • Recipient of Ministry of Environment (Ontario), Canada award for excellence in Research and Technology Development, 1994.
  • Recipient of International Commonwealth Scholarship, Ottawa, Canada, January 1990 - August 1994.
  • Recipient of Faculty of Engineering Award for Excellence in Graduate Studies, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada in three successive years: 1991, 1992 and 1993.
  • Vice Chairman, Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE 2006), IIT Kanpur.
  • Member Convener, National Advisory Committee on Strengthening of Environmental Science and Engineering Education and Research at IIT Kanpur
  • Member of Peer and Core Committee of Central Pollution Control Board, Delhi to finalize Environmental Standards, 2004
  • Distinguished Tutor for Course TA-101, Engineering Graphics, Academic Senate IIT Kanpur, 2002-03/I.
  • Member, National Task Force on Thermal Power Plant, Central Pollution Control Board 2002-present
  • Member, Environmental Committee, Indian Road Congress, New Delhi, 2003-present
  • Member, Committee for Evaluation of World Bunk Funded Projects of Central Pollution Control Board, 2002
  • Member, Technical Committee of World Bank Project on Ranking of The Industry from Environmental Angle, coordinated by CII (Confederation of Indian Industry), 2002-03
  • Member Editorial Board Indian Journal of Air Pollution Control, Delhi
  • Invitee for Developing Water Quality Criteria of National Rivers, Central Pollution Control Board
  • Referee for Reviewing Technical Papers for Journal of Environmental Engineering Division of American Society of Civil Engineers, 1997. Environmental Technology, Environmentalist etc.
  • President of WIRA (Waterloo Indian Researchers Association), an association of Graduate Students at University of Waterloo, Canada, involved in organizing conferences, community works, orientation to new students, November. 1991 - May 1992

Visiting Appointments

  • Visiting Professor, University of Kyoto, Kyoto Japan, August 2004- December 2004

  • Visiting Professor, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada, June 2004 - July 2004

Media Coverage Aknowledgement

A. Organizing Training Courses, Seminars, Workshops (jointly with other colleagues)

  • Developed video course (40 lectures) on Air Pollution under the National Programme of Technology Enhanced Learning - A Ministry of Human Resource Development initiative. These have been put on youtube which can be accessed by anyone from http://www.nptel.iitm.ac.in/video.php?courseId=1011&sub=Civil&sem=Semester%205

  • Indo-Norwegian Seminar on Indoor and Ambient Air Exposure of PAHs and Fine Particulate to Women and Children: Health Impacts in terms of Morbidity, June 2005

  • World Bank Sponsored Training course on Air Pollution Meteorology and Modelling, during June 9-13, 2003

  • Norwegian-sponsored International Workshop on Air Pollution Exposure Assessment and Health Effects, 26th May, 2002

  • AICTE (All India Council for Technical Education) Sponsored training course on Air Pollution and Its Control November 2002

  • Environmental Management in Industry - for Officers of Duncans Industry Kanpur, December 2000

  • Tribhuwan University-sponsored training course on Environmental Impact Assessment and Auditing for Professionals in Nepal, May 1998

  • Research work quoted in:

  1. Time magazine http://www.time.com/time/asia/2006/environment/kanpur.html

  2. Wall Street Journal http://www.livemint.com/2007/12/21000202/Is-Delhi8217s-air-quality-w.html?pg=1

  3. Mail-Today http://indiatoday.intoday.in/site/Story/71464/India/Uniform+norms+to+check+air+pollution.htm

  4. Appointment by Government of India as the Chairman of UP Environmental Impact Assessment Authority http://www.envfor.nic.in/news/jandec07/05notification.pdf