Aman Srivastava

About Aman Srivastava

Dr. Aman Srivastava holds a Ph.D. from the Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Kharagpur. He remained a Prime Minister\'s Research Fellow (PMRF) and a Teaching Assistant (TA) during his tenure at the IIT Kharagpur. He also held the TA position at the National Program on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL), the largest MOOC platform globally. As part of his role, he conducts live interactive sessions for various courses, including Surface Water Hydrology and Water Society and Sustainability (NPTEL video lectures are accessible on his YouTube Channel: Besides, he is also serving as a Volume Editor for the upcoming Elsevier book on Climate-Smart Water Resource Management, focusing on innovative solutions to address climate-related water challenges. Moreover, he serves as an Associate Editor for Frontiers in Climate and as a Peer-Reviewer for several leading Q1 and Q2 journals, having reviewed 119 articles across 36 journals.RESEARCH INTERESTS / PUBLICATIONSHis research interests span climate change adaptation and mitigation, water resources engineering and management, environmental planning and protection, and public policy and governance, with a publication record comprising 41 SCI journal articles, 1 published patent (Government of India), 2 filed, 1 Scopus book (in press), 16 Scopus-indexed book chapters, and 14 international conference papers. His work has collectively received 1650+ citations, with an h-index of 23 and an i-index of 40. DOCTORAL RESEARCHAman’s foremost research accomplishment during his PhD is the pioneering proposal of a fifth classification of drought, termed Environmental Drought, and the development of a heuristic approach for quantifying it through a first-of-its-kind Environmental Drought Index (EDI) using the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP) Phase 6. The results were published in the prestigious Journal of Hydrology and presented orally at AGU23 in San Francisco, USA.MASTERS\'S RESEARCHHe completed his Master\'s in 2020 from the Centre for Technology Alternatives for Rural Areas (CTARA) at IIT Bombay (QS Rank 1 in India). He published 4 journal papers from his Master\'s Thesis, each on analyzing traditional tank cascade systems, reviving tanks for climate resilience, developing watershed interventions for rural water security, and assessing land-use changes on hydro-ecological balance. Besides, he also remained the overall topper at the Centre, accomplishing the coursework with rank 1.

Experience

1. Volume Editor

   Elsevier

   Jun 2024 — Present · Cambridge, GB

   Volume Editor for the Elsevier Book \"Climate-Smart Water Resource Management: A Paradigm Shift from Ancient to Modern Practices with Integrated Technologies\" along with Prof. Rajib Maity (Professor, IIT Kharagpur):Call for Chapters: http://dx.doi.org/10•••40/RG.22••••••••43] We\'re inviting chapter contributions from global experts and researchers on AI-ML, remote sensing, GIS, LLMs, and more.Interested in contributing? Submit your manuscript to Prof. Rajib Maity (r••••@civil.iitkgp.ac.in) and/or Aman Srivastava (a••••••••@kgpian.iitkgp.ac.in). For more information, visit: http://dx.doi.org/10•••40/RG.22••••••••43. Abstract/title submission deadline: 30 June 2024; Full manuscript deadline: 31 October 2024

Education

• Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

  Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Civil Engineering - Hydrology and Water Resources Engineering

• Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

  M. Tech. Technology & Development, Centre for Technology Alternatives for Rural Areas (CTARA)