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Madan Kumar Jha obtained his M.E. form the Asia Institute o f Technology, Bangkok in 1992 availing full postgraduate scholarship.  Thereafter, he obtained his PhD availing the “Monbusho Scholarship” from United Graduate School of Agricultural Sciences, Ehime University, Japan in 1996.  Between December 1996 and November 1997, he worked as a Water Resources Engineer at Panya Consultants Co. Ltd., Bangkok, and from December 1997 to November 1999 he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Kochi University, Japan with “JSPS Research Fellowship’.  In 1999, he joined the Department of Agricultural and Food Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, West Bengal, India and presently, he is Associate Professor in the same department.  Dr. Jha has been honored with salient scholastic awards such as the ‘AMA_Shin-Norinsha-AAAE Young Researcher Award’ in 2005 by the Asian Association for Agricultural Engineering, Bangkok, ‘Shankar Memorial Award’ in 2009 and ‘Distinguished Services Award 1999-2000’ by the Indian Society of Agricultural Engineers, New Delhi.  Dr. Jha is also a recipient of the ‘Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship’ (2004-2005).  Recently, he has been awarded ‘JSPS Invitation Fellowship (long-term)’ by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Tokyo and ‘Fellow’ of the Indian Water Resources Society, Roorkee, India.