About PROF. KAMLESH NARAYAN TIWARI

Prof. Kamlesh Narayan Tiwari is Emeritus Professor, at Agricultural and Food Engineering Department of IIT Kharagpur. Prof. Tiwari has more than 36 years of experience in the field of Irrigation and Water resources Management. He has taught several courses related to Land and Water Resource Engineering to UG/PG/PhD students. He has developed infrastructure for conducting indoor irrigation and On Farm field irrigation laboratory and demonstration set-up of Microirrigation System at Agricultural and Food Engineering Department, IIT Kharagpur. Major research infrastructure facilities are developed in the field of micro irrigation in field crops, protected cultivation structures, hydrology, water balance monitoring system in the experimental farm at IIT Kharagpur and Digital Image Processing facilities which are unique in the country and the World. He has developed Hardware and Software for precise application of water to the plants irrigated using Micro Irrigation (MI). Seven Patents are to his credit on these innovations. He has been the Principal Investigator of more than 10 Sponsored Research Projects dealing with water conservation and management which are the thrust areas of Water Resources and management Development having national importance. Prof. K. N. Tiwari has published more than 100 research papers in the Journals of Internationally Repute, 2 International monograms on Remote Sensing Applications, training manuals and technical bulletins. He received UNESCO and DAAD Fellowships for Post Doctoral research studies. He has been honoured with the Fellow of the i) Indian Water Resources Society (IWRS), ii) Indian Society of Agricultural Engineers, iii) National Academy of Sciences (NASc) India, and iv) National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS). He is recipient of i) Eminent Water Resources Scientist Award (2016) of IIT Roorkee, ii) Rafi Ahmed Kidwai award (2014) of ICAR, New Delhi, iii) Hari Krishna Shastri Memorial award (2013) of IARI, New Delhi, iv) Shankar Memorial award (1998) of ISAE, and v) Commendation Medal (1994) from ISAE.