Dr. Kalwij has her education in groundwater management (water quality and quantity, and systems modeling, analysis and optimization), natural resources and environmental policy, irrigation engineering, and the use of integrative approaches to assess and solve water management problems. She has worked in the U.S.A, Pakistan, Chile, and Thailand.

Her field of interest and expertise are:

• Groundwater management (water quality and quantity)

• Surface irrigation systems (methods and practices)

• Systems analysis and optimization (operations research, heuristic optimizers)
• Numerical modeling (surface water, groundwater, and water quality models)

• Water and development (sustainable land and water use, water conservation)

She has over 7 years research and practical working experience in numerical modeling, systems analysis and optimization, and artificial neural networks. For many years she has a principal role in optimization software design and development for managing groundwater quality and quantity, and conjunctive use. Dr. Kalwij has worked extensively with numerical three-dimensional simulation models such as MODFLOW (U.S. Geological Survey) and MT3DMS (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers).

Dr. Kalwij worked in international development for about 4.5 years. She worked for the Directorate General International Cooperation of the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, stationed in Pakistan to work with the International Water Management Institute as an irrigation engineer / researcher.

Dr. Kalwij is co-inventor of two filed utility patents, dealing with the robustness of optimized systems and efficiently performing complex optimization computations, respectively.

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