Prof. Abhijit Mukherjee, PhD (Hydrogeology) is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Geology and Geophysics, and School of Environmental Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IIT Kharagpur), India. His main research areas are physical, chemical and isotope hydrogeology, including numerical modeling, computation, contaminant transport, water policy applications, and water quantity estimates including application of advanced computation and Artificial Intelligence techniques. He has published more than 100 International journal articles. Prof. Mukherjee has been conferred the National Geoscience Award, Kharaka Award, and Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize.