Dr. A. B. Gupta - Advisory Board Member, Adarsh Sewa Samiti
Dr. A. B. Gupta holds B.E. (Civil) from MREC Jaipur; M. Tech. and PhD (Environmental Science and Engineering) degrees from CESE, IIT Bombay. He joined MNIT as a lecturer of Civil Engineering in 1984 and is serving as a professor since 1996. His administrative assignments at MNIT include HOD (Civil), Dean R&D, Dean (Faculty Affairs) and Director. He has published/presented over 200 papers in various international/national journals and presented about 300 papers in conferences, guided 19 PhDs and over 100 Masters’ theses, taken up several prestigious research/consultation projects funded by national/ international agencies, and received many academic/ research awards.
He has been a nonofficial member of RPCB and Environment and Health Board of Rajasthan and several important committees of DST(GOI), CSIR, BIS, IRC etc. His major research contributions are in the areas of biological waste treatment; and Environment and health linkages; that have benefited large segments of the society. Besides a distinguished category lecture at Iowa State University, he has delivered several invited talks, keynote addresses, memorial lectures at national and international institutions and conferences across the world. He is fellow of IE(I), IAEM and life member of many reputed organizations. He has been a member of many selection committees of IITs, NEERI, NITs and other universities. He has received life time achievement awards of International Society for Energy, Environment and Sustainability and Indian Desalination Association.