Bio-sketch

Dr. A. K Nigam completed his B.Tech. in Civil Engineering from Harcourt Butler Technological Institute, Kanpur (now H.B.T.U.) in 1983. He completed his master’s degree in Survey and Photogrammetric Engineering from the Civil Engineering Department of the University of Roorkee in 1986. He also obtained a Doctoral degree from UOR now IIT Roorkee in 1998 under Quality Improvement Program. The area of research was on Rainfall-Runoff Modeling using Remote Sensing Data and GIS using the Strathclyde River Basin Model. He has served at NIH Roorkee for about one year. He has about 35 years’ experience of teaching in IET, Lucknow, HBTI, Kanpur and BIET, Jhansi. He has guided more than 50 B.Tech. Projects about 25 M. Tech theses. He has also guided 02 Ph.D. Once he visited Las Vegas to present a paper at a prestigious conference in 2000. He was the TEQIP3 Coordinator at BIET Jhansi and headed the department three times. He has also provided civil consultancy to various government and private sectors. He is currently a Professor emeritus in the Civil engineering Department.

Areas of Interest

Surveying & Photogrammetry, Application of Remote Sensing and GIS in Water Resources, Environmental Engineering and Urban Planning. Mathematical modeling.