I love these flowers in Biwa Lake garden (Japan)

 
 

Colorful maple leaves make the environment really very beautiful

 
 

This is me in Nong Khai (Thailand)

 
 

This is me when graduated from AIT, Bangkok (Thailand)

Beside the Mekong river at Nong Khai (Thailand)

I am from Bihar, INDIA. My field of interest is Water Resources Engineering. Till 1995 I stayed in India where I had my Bachelor of Technology (Ag. Engg.) from Rajendra Agricultural University, Bihar, Pusa. I love travelling and I have been to almost all the places in the southern part of India but I am still to visit the north of India. India is full of beautiful sceneries and there is alot of diversities with regard to topography, climate, plantation, food, dresses, culture, customs, languages and infrastructures. I really love going through the places in India and still I am looking for an opportunity to go around the vast tracts. If you are interested to visit India, please have informations on TourIndia page. Particularly, Bihar has been the place of Lord Buddha, Lord Mahavira, Ashoka, Mahatma Gandhi and Mother Teresa. Lord Buddha got his enlightment at Bodhgaya (Bihar). Many other informations related to my province, Bihar, can be found in the page of Bihar.

Recently, I have enjoyed my stay at Kyoto (JAPAN) for a long time. I finished my Doctor of Agriculture from Kyoto University (JAPAN) in the field of Water Resources Engineering from the Laboratory of Water Resources Engineering. This laboratory is an important field under the Division of Environmental Science and Technology in the Graduate School of Agriculture. Kyoto is famous for its cultural heritage and scenic beauty and most of the visitors to Japan like to visit Kyoto. If you are interested to have some information on Kyoto, please see here. I like the life in Kyoto, which is full of festivals and events. I have many good memories while staying in Kyoto. If you are interested, please visit here to see some of the photographs that I keep as my sweet memories. There are many places in Japan worth visiting including the Disneyland (Tokyo) and the Universal Studio (Osaka). I have many friends in Japan and few of them can be visited on this page.

Before coming to Japan, I had a good stay in Bangkok and other cities of THAILAND when I studied and worked there. I had my Master of Engineering from Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok in the field of Irrigation Engineering and Management (Water Engineering and Management). After graduating, I also worked in Thailand. I love the food of Thailand. I like Tom-Yam, Som-tam, Khao-Niao, Kai-Ping and many more and I hope most of South Asians would like them. Thailand has alot of places to visit. It has the mountains, sea shores, and beautiful historical placed to go around. I am still to go through the north of Thailand. These are some of my Friends in Thailand.

Satya Priya has been a helping hand for me throughout my academic life. He finished his Doctoral studies from University of Tokyo and now he is working in INDIA.

The photo file shows more of the memories of the past, if you are interested please go to the album.



These are some of my favourite stars.









Some of the interesting sites which I like and might be of some use to you also:
 

• Khoj - Most of the informations related to Indiia is available on this site.
• Food and Agriculture Organization - Information on data regarding agriculture.
• Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research - lets us know about the research going on in agricultural field throughout the world.
• International Water Management Institute - Related to Water Resources.
• Samachar - lets us know of the daily happenings at India.
• Profusion and Google - The search Engines I like most.


If you are interested in my career profile, please go below this portion.

PERSONAL

Mailing Address                    Alok Kumar
                                            Water Resources Engineering
                                            Division of Environmental  Science and Technology
                                            Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University
                                            Kitashirakawa Oiwake-Cho, Sakyo-Ku, Kyoto 606-8502, JAPAN
                                            Tel: +81 75 753 6160 ; Fax: +81 75 753 6349
                                            e-mail: alokk@rocketmail.com

Nationality                Indian
Sex                          Male
Marital Status           Single

EDUCATION

2000-03        D. Agri.        Water Resources Engineering                        Graduate School of Agriculture
                                                                                                              Kyoto University
                                                                                                              Kyoto, Japan

1995-97        M. Eng.        Irrigation Engineering & Management            School of Civil Engineering
                                                                                                              Asian Institute of Technology
                                                                                                              Bangkok, Thailand

1988-92        B. Tech.       Agricultural Engineering                                 College of Agricultural Engineering
                                                                                                              Rajendra Agricultural University
                                                                                                              Pusa, Bihar, India
 

Job Experiences

October 1998 – December 1999

Employer: Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Bangkok

Position: Research Associate

Responsibilities: To assist the organization of International Workshop on the Information Management for the Agricultural Research. To assist the organization of Study Tour of the visiting officers. Further to assist analyzing the data and writing papers concerning research.

March 1998 – September 1998

Employer:  Belgroma Ltd., Belgium

Position: Local Water Management Expert

Responsibility: To plan and monitor efficient irrigation systems, to plan and monitor the flood protection activities, and to provide technical assistance for training the Water User Groups and the Pump Operators to operate the water management more efficiently for the “On-Farm Development of the Huai Mong Irrigation Project”.

July 1997 - September 1997

Employer:  STS Eng. Consultants Co. Ltd.

Position: Technical Consultant

Responsibility: To prepare the project quotation, design and report for the various water resources projects.

THESES

Doctoral Thesis. (April 2000 - March 2003)

The topic of my doctoral research is "Optimum Allocation of Discharged Pollutant Loads from Nonpoint Sources in a Watershed Using GIS". This research includes the development of a method to optimally allocate allowable discharged pollutant loads from non-point sources in a watershed using multiobjective optimization theory and Geographic Information System (GIS). The modeling of watershed is carried out using ArcView GIS and all the geographic calculations are done using the same. The study area is fragmented into regular grids of same size and each grid is considered as individual land management unit (LMU). The area of each LMU and flow length from each LMU to the outlet of watershed is determined using GIS. The pollutant load from each LMU is considered to consist of two components; pollutant load by overland flow and pollutant load by subsurface flow. The values of watershed-wide self-purification coefficients are considered to be different for overland flow and subsurface flow. Using the calculated values of flow length and assumed values of watershed-wide self-purification coefficient, a two-objective linear programming model is formulated. The objective function maximizes total allowable discharged pollutant loads from LMUs and promotes equal allocation to LMUs in a sub-watershed, subject to the constraints of effluent limitation at the outlet of the sub-watershed, relation among mean effluents from different types of LMUs, relation between effluents through overland flow and subsurface flow in each LMU and minimum limit of effluent in each LMU. In order to demonstrate the model’s ability, the model developed is also applied to a sub-watershed of the Yasu river basin in Shiga Prefecture, Japan to determine the optimum allocation of discharged loads of total nitrogen from different LMUs in the sub-watershed.

Master Thesis. (September 1996 - February 1997)

A study was conducted at the International Crop Research Institute for the Semi - Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), India which included the rainfall runoff simulation for cropped agricultural plots comprising Vertic Inceptisol. A rainfall-runoff model was developed, calibrated, and validated, and then was used for predicting the runoff, deep percolation, soil water content and evapotranspiration. The study concluded that there is enough scope to harvest the runoff from the agricultural plots in the wet season which could be utilized for irrigation during the dry season.

B. Tech. Thesis (February 1992 - July 1992)

A study on the frequency analysis of the daily rainfall data for the Patna region of Bihar, India was conducted. The study revealed that Log Normal distribution fits well to the rainfall in the region. The result so obtained was used for the irrigation planning and design for the Patna region.

TRAINING

• One month training (June 1990) at Gandak Command Area Development Agency, India on cost estimation, and design of field channels and different irrigation and drainage structures for the command area development.
• One month training (June 1991) on maintenance and field operations of Ford & Escort Tractors at Escort Institute of Farm Mechanization, Bangalore, India.

• Environment WINDOWS 2000, DOS, UNIX
• Languages FORTRAN, Turbo Basic
• Software ArcView GIS, Mike 11, Simplex Optimization, Microsoft Windows softwares,  CROPWAT, BASCAD.

• English Excellent (Medium of education)
• Thai  Basic
• Japanese Basic
• Hindi  Excellent (Mother Tongue)

• awarded The Monbusho Scholarship for Doctoral study at Kyoto University, Japan (January 2000 – March 2003).
• awarded The Royal Government of Netherlands  Scholarship for Master’s study at Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok (September 1995 - April 1997).
• awarded MERIT Scholarship for the outstanding academic performance during the undergraduate program (August 1988 - December 1992).
• awarded National Merit Scholarship from June 1980 to April 1987 for the school studies.
• ranked first in the class at the undergraduate level.

• Kumar, A., Murty, V. V. N., Kawachi, T., Maeda, S. and Fazal M. A. (2000): Runoff simulation in small agricultural watershed of Vertic Inceptisols of Indian soils. Journal of Rainwater Catchment Systems, 5(2), pp. 39-43.
• Maeda, S., Kawachi, T., Kumar, A., Maruyama, T. and Matsumura, S. (2001): GIS-aided zoning of natural groundwater recharge potential in Yasu river basin, Japan. Journal of Rainwater Catchment Systems, 6(2), pp. 15-20.
• Kumar, A., Maeda, S. and Kawachi, T. (2001): Optimal allocation of pollutant from non-point sources in watershed. Journal of Rainwater Catchment Systems, 7(1), pp. 1-6.
• Kumar, A., Maeda, S. and Kawachi, T. (2002): Optimization model for allocation of pollutant loads from non-point sources in watershed using GIS. Proceedings of the 13th IAHR-APD Congress, Singapore, 6-8 August 2002, Advances in Hydraulics and Water Engineering, Volume II, World Scientific, Singapore, pp. 942-946.

• Kumar, A., Maeda, S. and Kawachi, T. (2002): Multiobjective optimization of discharged pollutant loads from non-point sources in watershed. Transactions of the Japanese Society of Irrigation, Drainage and Reclamation Engineering, 221, pp. 65-70.
• Kumar, A., Maeda, S. and Kawachi, T. (2002): Multiobjective optimization of pollutant loads from nonpoint sources in watershed considering surface and subsurface flows. Journal of Rainwater Catchment Systems, 8(1), pp. 7-12.

• Outstanding performance in sports at the school level.
• Outstanding performance in running, badminton and swimming in the sports activities of the Society of Agricultural Engineers at the university level.

Prof. Toshihiko KAWACHI
Water Resources Engineering
Division of Environmental Science and Technology
Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University
Kitashirakawa, Oiwake-Cho, Sakyo-Ku, Kyoto 606-8502 Japan
Tel:  +81 75 753 6348
Fax: +81 75 753 6349

Prof. Ashim Das Gupta
WEM, School of Civil Engineering
Asian Institute of Technology
PO Box 4, Klong Luang
Pathumthani 12120
Tel: +66 2 524 5556
Fax: +66 2 516 6425
e-mail: adg@ait.ac.th

Mr. Josef De Smet
Head, Overseas Department
Belgroma Ltd.
Raghenopark, Hanswijkvaart 51
2800 Mechelen, BELGIUM
Tel: +32 15 451300

Prof. Gajendra Singh
Dean of AIT Extension
Asian Institute of Technology
PO Box 4, Klong Luang
Pathumthani 12120
Tel: +66 2 524 5475

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