Dr. Ashok K Sharma received a BTech in Civil Eng, ME in Env Eng from the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India, and a PhD in Civil Eng from the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India. Dr. Ashok K Sharma is an Principal Research Fellow Water Resources at the Institute for Sustainable Industries & Liveable Cities at Victoria University (VU). Before joining VU, he worked for nearly 12 years at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia, as Senior Research Engineer and Principal Research Engineer. There, he led research on decentralized systems and water-sensitive urban design and managed various research projects on urban water systems. Before CSIRO, he worked as a Planning Engineer at the Queensland Department of Natural Resources and Mines, Australia, Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering at Delhi College of Engineering, Delhi, India. His expertise includes decentralized systems, centralized water & wastewater, hydraulic and hydrology, integrated urban water management, and water-sensitive urban design.