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Name : Krishna Kumar Chaturvedi

Designation : Scientist

Discipline : Computer Applications in Agriculture

Address for correspondence : Centre for Agricultural Bioinformatics (CABin)
Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute (IASRI), Library Avenue, PUSA, New Delhi 110 012
kkc@iasri.res.in
kkcchaturvedi@gmail.com
011-25847122-24 Extn. 4222.

Employment Record :
S.No. Name of Employer Designation Duration
1 Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute (ICAR), New Delhi Scientist 16-11-1999 to15-11-2005
2 Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute (ICAR), New Delhi Scientist 16-11-2005 – 15-11-2010
3 Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute (ICAR), New Delhi Scientist 16-11-2010 – Till Date

Educational Qualifications :
S.No. Degree / Specialization University / institution Percentage of Marks
1 BSc (Physics, Maths, Chemistry) Christ Church College Kanpur, Kanpur Univ. 72.44%
2 MCA (Master of Computer Applications) M.M.M. Egg. College, Gorakhpur 74.10%
3 PhD (Computer Science) Department of Computer Science, (University of Delhi), India In progress

Foreign Visit:

Visited Iowa State University of Science and Technology, Iowa, United States of America (USA) during 3rd Nov. to 12th Dec. 2003.
Visited Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States of America (USA) during 28th Jan. to 6th Apr. 2014.

Project Undertaken

Externally Funded
1. Integrated National Agricultural Resources Information System (INARIS) NATP- Mission mode project (1st April 2001 to 31st Dec 2004).
2. Assessment of Post harvest Losses of Crops/Commodities. Funded by AICRP Project. (Nov. 2005 to April 2010).
3. National Information System for Agricultural Education Network in India (Nisagenet) (1st April 2005 to 31st Dec 2007) Funded by AP-Cess, ICAR. (Completed).
4. Visioning Policy Analysis and Gender (VPAGe) (June 2007 to March 2012): Funded by NAIP
a. Sub project : Technology Forecasting
b. Sub project : Market Intelligence
5. Risk Assessment and Insurance products in Agriculture (Sept 2008 to Mar 2012). Funded by NAIP
6. Establishment of National Agricultural Bioinformatics Grid in ICAR (April 2010 to June 2014). Funded by NAIP
Institute Funded
1. Development of Expert System on Wheat Crop Management (EXOWHEM) (25-02-2003 to 24-02-2007) (Completed).
2. Development of Knowledge Data Warehouse for Agricultural Research (01-10-2007 to 31-08-2010)
3. Strengthening, Refining and Implementation of Expert System on Wheat Crop Management (25-08-2007 to 24-02-2010)
4. National Information System for Agricultural Education Network in India (Nisagenet II) (01-01-2008 to 31-12-2008)
5. E-learning solution for Agricultural Education in India (01-08-2008 to 19-08-2010)
Teaching Experience

As a faculty member (Computer Applications), Post Graduate School, Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), New Delhi, Taught the following course in different academic years.

1. Fundamentals of Computer Programming and its Applications (2L+1P)
2. Data Structures and Structured Programming (2L+1P)
3. Software Engineering (2L).
4. Fundamentals of Computer Programming in C (2L+1P)
5. Data Structures and Structured Programming (2L+1P)
6. Data base Management System (2L+2P)
7. Data Structures and Structured Programming (2L+1P)
8. Data Warehousing and Data Mining (2L+1P)
9. Fundamentals of Computer Programming (2L+1P)
10. Data warehousing(2L+1P)
11. Advances in Data warehousing (2L)
12. Advanced Programming in Bioinformatics (2L+1P)

Award/Recognition
1. “Letter of appreciation” was received from the Organizing secretary of ICSI2006 for the effort made in the creation of website for the conference.
2. Received the “Scientist of the Year Award” by the Society for Recent Development in Agriculture on the occasion of National Symposium on “Scenario of Agriculture in Changing Climatic Conditions” held on Oct 18, 2008 at SVBP University of Agriculture & Technology, Meerut.
3. Received South Asia Manthan Award by Digital Empowerment Foundation, New Delhi for project “Expert System on Wheat Crop Management” in 2009.
4. Received a “Praise-Reward for Excellent Performance” under ICAR Institute Category for the stall of “Computer Application, IASRI” in Krishi Vigyan Mela at IARI New Delhi during 4-6 March 2010.
5. “Letter of appreciation” was received from the council for the effort made in the INARIS project
6. Member, BOS (Computer Application), PG School IARI, New Delhi. (2006 -2007)
7. Member, Examination committee (Computer Application), PG School IARI, New Delhi. (2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010)
8. Member, Pre-Qualifying Examination committee (Computer Application), PG School IARI, New Delhi. (2006,2007, 2008, 2009, 2010)
9. Member, “Broad Subject Matter Area (BSMA)" for finalization of syllabi for the M.Sc. and PhD. Programme in SAUs.
10. External Examiner, CSUAT Kanpur in 2007
11. Examiner, LN Mishra College of Business Management, Mujaffarpur, Bihar in 2008.
12. Member, Editorial Board, International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer and Communication Engineering (A Monthly Peer-Reviewed Online Journal).
13. Member, Reviewers, International Journal of Computer and Information Technology (A Monthly Peer-Reviewed Online Journal).
14. Incharge, Maintaining the Central Data Warehouse.
15. Course Director, 21 days CAS training program “Development of Web Portals Using LAMP Technology” during 1st Feb. 2006 to 21st Feb. 2006.
16. Reviewing scientific research papers for few journals.
17. Reviewing scientific research project proposal and completed project reports.
18. Prepared the question papers and evaluated the same for SAUs.

Invited Talks

1. “Data Warehousing: A step ahead databases” in a National Seminar on “Emerging Technology on Data Acquisition” at Sri Guru Govind Singh College of Commerce (Delhi University), New Delhi on 12th February, 2009.
2. “Implication of ICT in Agricultural Research and Development” by Anil Rai, K K Chaturvedi, P K Malhotra and S D Sharma in the workshop held at CRRI Cuttuck during 28-29 July, 2008.
3. “Development of DSS using .Net framework” on 28th March 2010 during workshop cum training “Risk Assessment in Agriculture” held at TNAU, Coimbatore during 26-30 March 2010.
4. “Multimedia and Sharable Content Object Reference Model in Moodle” in the workshop “Computerization of Research Project Information (RPF-I) and Content Management for E-Learning System using Moodle” at NDRI, Karnal on 26th April 2010.
5. “Design and development of biological databases” in the workshop cum training programme “Bioinformatics for crop improvement” at NBPGR, New Delhi during 19-25 Oct 2010.
6. Invited talk "Issues in Biological Portals in Indian Agriculture" during 14th National Conference on Agricultural Research Statisticians during 27th-29th Nov. 2013.

Important Publications

1. Devraj, Chaturvedi, KK and Singh, PK. (2001). "Multimedia : An Emerging technology for Agricultural Extension". Agriculture Extension Review”, Sept-Oct 2001. Page No. 3-8.
2. Devraj, Chaturvedi, K.K.(2003) “Internet for Technology Transfer in Agriculture”. Agriculture Extension Review, March-April 2003. Page No. 3-6.
3. Rai, Anil, Dubey, Vipin, Chaturvedi, KK. and Malhotra, P.K. (2008). “Design and Development of data mart for Animal Resources”. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 64(2): 111-119.
4. Rai, Anil, Dubey, Vipin, Chaturvedi, KK and Malhotra, P.K. (2007). “Issues of design and development of agricultural data warehouse in India”. CSI Communications 31(1), 43-51
5. Rai, Anil, Malhotra, P.K., Sharma S.D. and Chaturvedi, KK. (2007). “Data Warehouse for Agricultural Research- An integrated approach for decision making”. Journal of Indian Society of Agricultural Statistics, 61(2): 264-273.
6. Chaturvedi, KK, Rai, Anil, Dubey, Vipin K., and Malhotra, P.K. (2008). “On-line Analytical Processing in Agriculture using Multi-dimensional cubes”. Journal of Indian Society of Agricultural Statistics, 62(1): 56-64.
7. Singh, VB, Chaturvedi, KK (2011). Bug Tracking and Reliability Assessment System (BTRAS). International Journal of Software Engineering and Its Applications. 5(4), 17-30.
8. Islam, S, Kundu, S, Shoran, S, Sabir, N, Sharma, K, Farooqi, S, Singh, R. Agarwal, HO, Chaturvedi, KK, Shrama, RK, Sharma, AK (2012). Selection of Wheat (triticum aestivum) Variety through Expert System. Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences. 82(1), 39-43.
9. Sanjukta, RK, Farooqi, MS, Rai, Anil, Mishra DC, Sharma, NK, Chaturvedi, KK. Statistical and computational methods for detection of synonymous
codon usage patterns and gene expression. International Journal of Agricultural and Statistical Sciences. Appear in Vol.9, No.1, June 2013.
10. Dahiya, S, Jaggi, S, Chaturvedi, KK, Bhardwaj, A, Goyal, RC, Varghese, C. An eLearning System for Agricultural Education. Indian Journal of Extension Education. (Accepted for Publication)
1. Chaturvedi, K.K., Singh, V.B. (2012). An empirical comparison of machine learning techniques in predicting the bug severity of open and closed source projects. International Journal of Open Source Software and Processes, 4(2): 32-59. [IGI-Global]
2. Dahiya, Shashi, Chaturvedi, K.K, Jaggi, Seema, Bharadwaj, Anshu, Varghese, Cini. (2012). A Digital Education Initiative in Agriculture. Journal of Farming Systems Research & Development. 18(2):175-179.
3. Singh, V.B., Chaturvedi, K.K. (2013). Bug Prediction using Entropy Based Measures. International Journal of Knowledge Engineering and Data Mining, 2(4):266-291. [Inderscience].
4. Kumar, V., Singh, K.H., Chaturvedi, K.K., Nanjundan, J. (2013). Design and implementation of web-based database of rapeseed-mustard germplasm using Linux - Apache - MySQL - PHP (LAMP) technology. African Journal of Agricultural Research, 8(22): 2733-2743.
5. Lal, S.B., Pandey, P.K., Rai, P.K., Rai,A., Sharma, A., Chaturvedi, K.K. (2013). Design and Development of Portal for Biological Database in Agriculture. Bioinformation, 9(11): 588-598.
6. Farooqi, M.S., Sanjukta, R.K., Sharma, N., Rai, A., Mishra, D.C., Singh, D.P., Chaturvedi, K.K., Kumar, A., Panwar, S., (2013). Statistical and computational methods for detection of synonymous codon usage patterns and gene expression. International Journal of Agricultural and Statistical Sciences, 9(1): 303-310.
7. Singh, VB, Chaturvedi, K.K., Khatri, S.K., Kumar, V. (2014). Bug prediction modeling using complexity of code changes. International Journal of System Assurance Engineering and Management. DOI 10.1007/s13198-014-0242-5. [Springer]
8. Chaturvedi, K.K., Kapur, P.K., Anand, S., Singh, V.B. (2014). Predicting the complexity of code changes using entropy based measures. International Journal of System Assurance Engineering and Management. DOI 10.1007/s13198-014-0226-5. [Springer]

 Papers in Refereed Proceedings

1. Kumar, R, Murlidgaran, K, Sairam,CV, Shanpal, S, Arulara, S, Rai, A, Dubey, V, Chaturvedi, KK (2002). "Design of data Marts for Plantation Crops" in the proceedings of Placrosym XV(2002) Page No. 784-790.
2. Rai, Anil, Dubey, Vipin, Chaturvedi, KK. and Malhotra, P.K. (2004). “Issues of Design and Development of Agricultural Data warehouse” in Proc. of XIV National Conference of Ag Research Statisticians held at JNKVV Jabalpur from 17-19 Nov 2004. Page No. 113-122.
3. Rai, Anil, Dubey, Vipin, Chaturvedi, KK. (2007). "Implementation of Agricultural Data Warehouse" in 2nd ESRI Asia-Pacific User Conference proceedings, 2007 held at New Delhi during 18-19 Jan 2007.
4. Islam, SN, Chaturvedi, KK, Sharma, K, Sharma, AK, Singh, R, Sikarwar, HS, Sharma, RK, (2007). "Knowledge Engineering for an Expert System on Wheat Crop Management" in 3rd IICAI-2007 Conference proceedings, Pune. PP. 1636-1647. ISBN: 978-0-9727412-2-4.
5. Chaturvedi, KK, Singh, VB (2012). Determining Bug Severity Using Machine Learning Techniques. In Proc. of CSI 6th IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (CONSEG-2012). IEEE Explore.

 Popular Articles/Book Chapters

1. Islam, S.N., Chaturvedi, K.K., Farooqi, M.S., Sikarwar, H.S., Agarwal, H.O. (2008) n{k ra=k }kjk xsgw¡ dh lgh fdLe dk p;u. Sankhiaki Vimarsh.
2. Rai, Anil, Dubey, V., Chaturvedi, K.K. and Malhotra, P.K. (2007). Implementation of fisheries data marts. Book Chapter in the book 'Bioinformatics and statistics in fisheries research-Vol-III', CIFA, Bhuvneshwar, 90-109.
3. Rai, Anil, Chaturvedi, K.K. and Malhotra, P.K. (2008): Design and development of fisheries data mart. A Book Chapter in the book “Applied Bioinformatics Statistics and Economics in Fisheries Research” Eds. Ajit Kumar Roy and Niranjan Sarangi, pp.261-292, New India Publishing Agency, New Delhi.
4. Farooqi, Mohammad Samir, Islam, Shahnawazul, Chaturvedi , K. K., Sharma, Kirti, Sikarwar, Harnam Singh. (2008) “Identifying Insects through Expert System on Wheat Crop Management – An information Technology Innovation” Book Chapter in a book “Social Science Perspectives in Agriculture- A thrust for Integration”, 520-523.
5. Rai, A, Chaturvedi, KK, Bhatia, VK, Ramasubramanian. (2011). Impact Assessment of Information and Communication Technology on Food Grain Production in India. In: Evaluation and Impact Assessment of Technologies and Developmental Activities in Agriculture, Fisheries, and Allied Fields. Eds. Roy, A.K., New India Publishing Agency Pitam Pura, New Delhi-110 088. 391-410.
6. Sharma, N, Rai, A, Chaturvedi, KK, Farooqi, MS (2011). Bioinformatics: Future Application in Microbiology. In: Emerging Trends: Applied Biotechnology. Eds. Sharma, N and Rathore, M. Lambert Academic Publishing House Germany. 106-121.

 Leaflet Brochure

1. RC Goyal, PK Malhotra, Ashok Kumar, VH Gupta, SB Lal, Alka Arora, KK Chaturvedi. National Information System on Agricultural Education Network in India (NisageNet) (2007). Leaflet brochure. IASRI Publication
2. S.N. Islam, H. O. Agarwal, H.S. Sikarwar M.S. Farooqi, Sh. Vipin Kr. Dubey, K.K. Chaturvedi, Randhir Singh, A.K. Sharma, R.K. Sharma, K. D. Srivastava, J. P. Sharma and Kirti Sharma “Expert System on Wheat Crop Management” (2007). Leaflet Brochure in English. IASRI Publication.
3. Shashi Dahiya, RC Goyal, KK Chaturvedi, Seema Jaggi, Anshu Bhardwaj and Cini Varghese. A workshop document “Sensitization workshop on Content Management for eLearning systems using MOODLE”. (2008), Workshop Series, IASRI Publication.
4. VK Bhatia, Ramasubramanian, V, Anil Rai, KK Chaturvedi, Amrender Kumar, Satya Pal. “Future Technological Needs in Genetics and Plant Breeding for Sustainable Agriculture” (2009). Leaflet brochure, IASRI Publication.
5. VK Bhatia, Ramasubramanian, V, Anil Rai, KK Chaturvedi, Amrender Kumar. “Future Technological Needs in Remote Sensing and GIS for Accelerating Growth in Agriculture” (2009). Leaflet brochure, IASRI Publication.
6. S.N. Islam, H. O. Agarwal, H.S. Sikarwar M.S. Farooqi, Sh. Vipin Kr. Dubey, K.K. Chaturvedi, Randhir Singh, A.K. Sharma, R.K. Sharma, K. D. Srivastava, J. P. Sharma and Kirti Sharma “Expert System on Wheat Crop Management” (2010). Leaflet Brochure in Hindi. IASRI Publication.
7. VK Bhatia, Ramasubramanian, V, Anil Rai, KK Chaturvedi, Amrender Kumar, Satya Pal. “Forecasting technological needs for rainfed agriculture in India”. (2010). Leaflet brochure IASRI Publication.

 Technical Reports and Bulletins

1. Goyal, RC, Malhotra, PK, Kumar, Ashok, Gupta, VH, Lal, SB, Arora, Alka, Chaturvedi, KK (2008) Project Report: National Information System on Agricultural Education Network in India (NISAGENET), IASRI, New Delhi Publication. AP Cess Fund project report
2. Goyal, RC, Malhotra, PK, Kumar, Ashok, Gupta, VH, Chaturvedi, KK, Farooqi, MS, Marwaha, Sudeep (2009). Project Report: NISAGENET-II, IASRI, New Delhi Publication.
3. Dahiya, Shashi, Goyal, RC, Chaturvedi, KK, Bharadwaj, Anshu, Jaggi, Seema, Varghese, Cini (2010). An eLearning system for agricultural education. Technical Project Report. IASRI/PR-13/2010, IASRI, New Delhi
4. Rai, Anil, Malhotra, PK, Jaggi, S, Chaturvedi, KK, Farooqi, S, Sahoo, PM (2010). Project Report: Knwoledge data warehouse for agricultural research. IASRI/PR-14/2010, IASRI, New Delhi
5. Islam, SN, Farooqi, Samir, Chaturvedi, KK, Agarwal, Hariom, Sikarwar, Harnam Singh (2010). Project Report: Strengthening, refining and implementation of expert system on wheat crop management. IASRI/PR-15/2010, IASRI, New Delhi.
6. Rai Anil, Chaturvedi, K.K., Ramasubramanian, V. and Bhatia, V.K.. Technical series “Information and Communication Technology for Accelerated Growth in Agriculture” (2009), IASRI Publication.
7. Islam, S.N., Chaturvedi, K.K., Farooqi, M.S., Agarwal, H.O., Sikarwar, H.S., Sharma, Kirti, Sharma, J.P., Sabir, Naved, Sharma, A.K., Singh, Randhir and Sharma, R.K. Workshop Document on “Training and Dissemination Workshop: Exowhem”. (2009), IASRI Publication. Co-Author.
8. Dahiya, Shashi, Goyal, RC, Chaturvedi, KK, Jaggi, Seema, Bhardwaj, Anshu and Varghese, Cini. Workshop document “Sensitization workshop on Content Management for eLearning systems using MOODLE”. (2009), IASRI Publication.
9. Rai, Anil, Sahoo, P.M., Farooqi, M.S., Chaturvedi, K.K., Singh, Pratap, Pathak, G.M. (2009). Applications of Remote Sensing and GIS in Agriculture Survey: Training Reference Manual. IASRI Publication.
10. Goyal, RC, Chaturvedi, KK, Farooqi, Samir, Lal, SB, Pathak, GM, Singh, Pratap. CSO training reference manual “Application of IT in Statistical Computing and Data Dissemination Technique” (2009) IASRI Publication.
11. Sharma, Anu, Lal, SB, Chaturvedi, KK, Farooqi, Samir, Pathak, GM, Singh, Pratap. CAFT Training reference manual “Recent Advances in Web Technology for Information Dissemination in Agriculture: Reference Manual. (2010) IASRI Publication.
12. Bhatia, VK, Ramasubramanian, V, Rai, Anil, Chaturvedi, KK, Kumar Amrender, Pal Satya. “Technology Forecatsing Methodologies” (2010). Technical Series/IASRI/NAIP/V-PAGe/03/2010. IASRI Publication.
13. Requirement Analysis Document : Integrated National Agricultural Resources Information System ( INARIS) Project (2001) NATP Publication (Printed Form as well as E-copy or CD)
14. Code Book -1 : Integrated National Agricultural Resources Information System ( INARIS) Project (2001) NATP Publication (Printed as well as E-copy or CD)
15. E-R Diagrams : INARIS Project (2004), NATP Publication (A CD was Prepared)
16. INARIS : Access Policy Document (2005), NATP Publication ( A CD was Prepared)
17. Requirement Analysis Document : Expert System on Wheat Crop Management (Exowhem) Project (2005), IASRI Publication
18. Requirement Analysis Workshop: Series-1 Expert System on Wheat Crop Management (Exowhem) Project (2005), IASRI Publication
19. Integrated National Agricultural Resources Information System(INARIS) (2004), Project Report , IASRI Publication
20. National Information System for Agricultural Education Network in India (Nisagenet) (2007), Project Report, IASRI Publication
21. Development of Expert System on Wheat Crop Management (Exowhem). (2008) Project Report, IASRI Publication
22. Technical Documents of NisageNet (2007). IASRI Publication
23. Statistical Bulletin on Agricultural Education in India (2007). IASRI Publication
24. Reference manual for the CAS training program "Data Driven web solutions using Open Source Software". E-copy (CD) of the manual was also prepared. (2005), IASRI Publication
25. Reference manual for the CAS training program "Development of Portals Using LAMP Technology". E-copy of the manual was also prepared. (2006). IASRI Publication
26. Reference manual for the CAS training program "Spatial and Non-Spatial Information Management and Mining in Agriculture".E-copy of the manual was also prepared. (2007). IASRI Publication
27. Reference manual for the CAS training program "Development of Web Applications for Knowledge Dissemination in Agriculture". E-copy of the manual was also prepared. (2008).IASRI Publication

 Conference Proceedings

1. Parsad, R., Srivastava, R, Bhar, LM, Ahmad, T, Chaturvedi, KK, Arora, A, Paul, AK, Bindal, V, Gangwani, J, Chand, N, Kumar, P, Sunita. Souvenir : International Conference on Statistics and Informatics in Agricultural Research (2006) (Diamond Jubilee celebration of ISAS, New Delhi) IASRI Publication.
2. Parsad, R., Srivastava, R, Bhar, LM, Ahmad, T, Chaturvedi, KK, Arora, A, Paul, AK, Bindal, V, Gangwani, J, Chand, N, Kumar, P, Sunita. Abstracts : International Conference on Statistics and Informatics in Agricultural Research (2006) (Diamond Jubilee celebration of ISAS, New Delhi) Edited by IASRI Publication.

 Website Developed/Published

1. Website of 88th Session of Indian Science Congress Association held at IARI New Delhi during 3rd to 7th January 2001. (http://www.isc2001.nic.in).
2. Website of TAAS (Trust for Advancement of Agricultural Sciences) and The URL is http://www.iasri.res.in/taas .
3. Website of INARIS project http://www.inaris.gen.in
4. Website Portal of INARIS Data Warehouse http://www.inaris.res.in/
5. Website Portal of INARIS Data Warehouse http://agdw.inaris.res.in/datamart
6. Website for expert system on Wheat Crop Management http://www.iasri.res.in/expert
7. Created the website for National Information System for Agricultural Education Network in India (Nisagenet) http://www.iasri.res.in/nisagenet
8. Website for International Conference on Statistics and Informatics in Agricultural Research (icsi2006) organized for Diamond jubilee celebration of Indian Society Of Agricultural Statistics during 27th December to 30th December 2006. http://www.iasri.res.in/icsi2006.
9. Website for elearning for agricultural education, http://elearnagri.iasri.res.in/home/
10. Web Application for Decision Support System for Insurance Products for Agriculture, http://www.iasri.res.in/publishedRiskdss/ or http://agdw.iasri.res.in/publishedRiskDSS
11. Establishment of National Bioinformatics Grid in ICAR, http://nabg.iasri.res.in/

 Software Developed

1. Software developed for the Online Registration of delegates who wish to attend the 88th session of Indian Science Congress Association.(2001)
2. Data Dictionary Module : Integrated National Agricultural Resources Information System ( INARIS) Project (2002), NATP Publication (A CD was Prepared)
3. Software for "Cost of Cultivation" (2005), IASRI (A CD was Prepared)
4. Data entry Software for “Assessment of Post Harvest Losses of Crops/Commodities: Enquiry Data” (2005), IASRI (A CD was Prepared)
5. Data entry Software for “Assessment of Post Harvest Losses of Crops/Commodities: Observation Data” (2005), IASRI (A CD was Prepared)
6. Software developed for the Online Registration of delegates who wish to attend the 88th session of Indian Science Congress Association in 2001.

Lectures delivered in Various Training Program

1. Delivered two lectures in Training program under CAS on "Web page designing and information system on internet" from 07th Feb. to 26th feb. 2000
2. Delivered three lectures in training program “Development of Databases and Information Systems” under CAS from 10th January to 30th January 2001.
3. Delivered the lectures in training program under CAS on “Designing Vortals for NARS” from 6th Feb. to 26th Feb ‘2002.
4. Delivered two lectures in the Winter School on “Spatial and non-spatial databases for Agricultural Research System” from 9th Sept to 29th Sept 2003
5. Delivered two lectures in training program under CAS entitled “Emerging trends in internet technologies” from 13th Jan to 2nd Feb 2004.
6. Delivered five lectures in a CAS training programs “Data Driven Web Solution using Open Source Technology” from 17th Sept 2005, to 7th Oct 2005.
7. Delivered five lectures in a training program "Development of Portals using LAMP Technology" under the aegis of CAS from 1st Feb 2006 to 21st Feb 2006.
8. Delivered three lectures in a training program ‘Design & Development of Web based Application using .NET Technology’ during 22nd November- 12th December 2006
9. Delivered a Lecture entitled "Uses of IT in Finance and Administration Management" delivered in Five trainings (12-16 June, 19-23 June, 26-30 June, 3-7 July, 10-14 July, 2006) "IT sensitization Training Programme for Finance Officer/Officials" sponsored by NAIP (National Agricultural Innovation Project) and organized by IASRI, New Delhi.
10. Delivered a lecture entitled "Data warehousing and its Applications in Agriculture" in CAS training program “Advances in data Analytical Techniques” during 8th to 28th Feb. 2007.
11. Delivered five lectures in a training program ‘Spatial and Non-Spatial Information Management and Mining in Agriculture” during 13th November- 2nd December 2007
12. Delivered invited talk in Hindi Workshop and Training program "Computer Taknikon ke anuprayog se anusandhan evam karyalayeen karyon main hindi ka prayog badhayen" at NRCRM Bharatpur.
13. Delivered three lectures in a training program ‘Development of Web Applications for Knowledge Dissemination in Agriculture" during March 04 to 24, 2008
14. Delivered two lectures in the CAS training program “Development of Contents for Online e-Learning Systems” during 10th to 30th Sep. 2008.
15. Delivered a lecture “e-Marketing and food products in Agriculture” in the CAS training program “Advances in Agricultural and Food Marketing” at IARI during 3rd to 23rd Oct. 2008.
16. Delivered a lecture in the NAIP training program “Price Trends and Market Integration” during 16th to 24th Oct. 2008.
17. Delivered two lectures in the training program for CSO professionals “Application of IT in Statistical Computing and Data Dissemination Technique” during 20th to 24th Oct. 2008.
18. Delivered two lectures in the CAS training program “Data Mining in Agriculture” during 4th to 24th Nov. 2008.
19. Delivered an Invited talk on “Data Warehousing: A step ahead databases” in a national seminar on “Emerging Technology on Data Acquisition” at Sri Guru Govind Singh College of Commerce (Delhi University), New Delhi on 12th February, 2009.
20. Delivered a lecture on “Development of DSS using .Net framework” on 4th August 2010 during workshop cum training “Risk Assessment in Agriculture” jointly organized by NCAP and IASRI held at NCAP, New Delhi during 2-5th August 2010.
21. Prepared and delivered two lectures in the training program “Technology Forecasting Methodologies” during 13-17 July 2010.
22. Delivered an invited lecture “Multimedia and SCORM in Moodle” at NDRI Karnal on 26th April 2010 during the workshop.
23. Delivered a lecture “Design and Management of Biological Databases” on 23rd October 2010 at NBPGR, New Delhi during a training on “Bioinformatics in Crop Improvement” during 19-25 October 2010.
24. Delivered two lectures and conducted practical on “Sequence Alignment” and “BLAST and FASTA Search” on 27th January 2011 during the training “Bioinformatics Resources and Tools in Agricultural Research” during 24-29th January 2011.
25. Prepared and delivered a lecture entitled “Sequence Analysis” and conducted a practical session on the same in the ICAR Sponsored Short course on “Bioinformatics in Agriculture" held during 29 August-7 Sept. 2011.
26. Prepared and delivered two lectures “SCORM” and “Adobe Presenter” on 18th January 2012 in the CAFT training program “Online Content Creation and Management in an eLearning environment” held at IASRI, New Delhi during January 03-23, 2012.

Contributed in Organization of Conferences, Training Programme, Meetings And Workshops as a chairman / members for various committees

I. CAS Trainings as Course Director
Organized a 21 days Training program "Development of Portals Using LAMP Technology" under the aegis of Center of Advanced Studies (CAS) during 1st Feb 2006 to 21st Feb 2006.

II. CAS Trainings/Winter School as a Chairman/member of committees
1. Training program on "Web page designing and information system on internet" from 07th Feb to 26th Feb. 2000.
2. Training program on “Development of Databases and Information Systems” sponsored by ICAR under CAS from 10th January to 30th January 2001.
3. Winter School on “Spatial and non-spatial databases for Agricultural Research System” from 9th Sept. to 29th Sept 2003.
4. Training program on “Designing Vortals for NARS” from 6th to 26th Feb ‘2002.
5. Training program under Center of Advanced Studies entitled “Emerging trends in internet technologies” from 13th Jan to 2nd Feb 2004.
6. CAS training program “Data Driven Web Solution using Open Source Technology” from 17th Sept 2005, to 7th Oct 2005.
7. CAS training program ‘Design & Development of Web based Application using .NET Technology’ was successfully organized during 22nd November- 12th December 2006
8. CAS training program "Spatial and Non-Spatial Information Management and Mining in Agriculture" during 13th November- 2nd December 2007.
9. CAS training program "Development of Web Applications for Knowledge Dissemination in Agriculture " during March 04 to 24, 2008
10. CAS training program “Development of Contents for Online e-Learning Systems” was successfully organized during 10th to 30th Sep. 2008.
11. CAS training program “Data Mining in Agriculture” was successfully organized during 4th to 24th Nov. 2008.

III. International/National Conferences
1. 88th session of the Indian Science Congress Association from 3rd to 7th Jan 2001.
2. Intl. conference on Statistics and Informatics in Agricultural Research (ICSI2006) during 28-30 Dec 2006.

IV. Membership of professional/Scientific societies

1. Life Member of Indian Society of Agricultural Statistics.
2. Life Member of Farming Systems Research and Development Association.
3. Life member of Society of Extension and Agricultural Education.
4. Life member of Society for Recent Development in Agriculture
5. Annual Member of Indian Science congress Association for the year 2000-2001.
6. Member of Internet user Group
a. ittoolbox.com
b. dbworld.com
c. funducode.com
d. otn.com
e. howstuffworks.com
f. ralphkimball.com
g. about.com
h. cognos.com
i. cyber_quiz at Yahoo.com
j. ISAP-ICT_AGRI at yahoo.com