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I. Personal Information

V Rajesh Chowdhary

Associate Professor

Head – Research & Development,

International Institute of Information Technology,

P-14, Rajiv Gandhi Infotech Park, Phase-1

Hinjawadi, Pune 411 057

India

+91 8459557727; rajesh.vattikuti@gmail.com

 

II. Professional Experience

• Associate Professor, Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering, International Institute of Information Technology, Pune, India, May

Date of Joining: 01/01/2018 – Till

 

• Research Associate in Remote Sensing & GIS, School of Engineering & Technology, Bangkok, Thailand

Date of Joining: 01/06/2015 – 31/12/2017

 

III. Educational Background

• PhD in Remote Sensing and GIS, Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand, May 2015.

Dissertation Title: Ionospheric Impact of Severe Space Weather Events on GNSS Measurements from Thailand.

 

• M Tech in IT with specialization in Satellite Communications and Space System, International Institute of Information Technology, Pune , India, May 2011.

Thesis Title: Design and Implementation of Multi-Channel Pseudolite GPS Baseband Module.

 

• B Tech in Electronics and Communication Engineering, Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Kakinada, India, May 2009.

Thesis Title: Implementation of Iris Recognition System using Matlab.

 

 

IV. Scholarships/ Awards /Recognition Received

• Awarded “Best Research Project of the Year 2019” for “Development of near real time regional TEC mapping at low-latitude Asean region using GNSS stations” at 10th Annual Indian Education Awards, held at Taj Yeshwantpur, Bangalore on 26th February 2020.

• Invited panelist on the topic “How Academic Can Meet the Changing Needs of the Corporate” in the 3rd ASMA Annual Convention & Awards 2019, held at Sahara Hotel, Mumbai during 16th – 17th September 2019.

• Exceptional contribution as a Mentor in “Smart India Hackathon, 2019”, Hardware Edition, Grand Finale, 8th -12th July 2019.

• Best Poster Award for “Development of Mobile Online Solar Powered Smart Weather and Air Quality” in the FOSS4G Asia 2018 held at Moratuwa, Sri Lanka, during 2nd - 5th December 2018.

• OSGeo (Open Source Geospatial Foundation) Charter Member from India since 2018

• Japanese Government Scholarship for pursuing PhD in Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand during 2011-2015.

• Received full grant by office of Outer Space Affairs, United Nations to participate in workshop and Conference on NeQuick” at International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy during 4th – 8th May 2015.

 

V. Academics

• Post Graduate Teaching

• Advance Application Development in GIS along with Prof Nitin Kumar Tripathi at Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand during January 2015 – December 2017.

• Introduction to GIS along with Prof Nitin Kumar Tripathi at Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand January 2015 – December 2017.

 

• Undergraduate Teaching

• Computer Network & Security for final year E&TC students during 2018-20 at International Institute of Information Technology, Pune, India.

• Information Theory, Coding and Communication Networks for third year E&TC students during 2018-20,  at International Institute of Information Technology, Pune, India.

• Integrated Circuits second year E&TC students during 2018 – 2019 at International Institute of Information Technology, Pune, India.

 

VI. Projects

• Consultancy project on “Development of Market Research Platform on Healthcare” a lead PI, for Codex GPO, 2020-21

• ASEAN- India Collaborative R&D project titled “Development of near real time regional TEC mapping at low-latitude Asean region using GNSS stations” as lead PI along with Thai and Malaysian partners, ASEAN-India S&T Development Fund (AISTDF), 2019-2021.

• Indo -Thai joint project on “Service Oriented Participatory Platform for Local SDI : Smart Civic Services for Second Tier Cities in Thailand and India” as Co-PI from Indian side, funded by Department of Science & Technology, International division, Indian government, 2019-2022.

• Consultancy project on “Tori Validator, Editor and realignment” as a lead PI, for Tom Tom India Pvt Ltd, 2019-21. 

• Collaborative Research for the Regional Forum on Climate Change on the topic “Developing new methods to monitor forest carbon in Asian tropical forests” 2016 – 2018, funded by French Government as Research Associate (Jointly with NRSC, ISRO, India)

• Project for developing course modules on “GIS for Health & Geoinformatics for Coastal & Marine Resource Management” 2015 – 2018, funded by Erasmus + (EU) as Research Associate

• Local ionospheric scintillation analysis (LISA) using GNSS stations in Thailand, 2014-2016, funded by US AOARD as Research Associate

• Research on ionospheric Scintillations in Asia (RISA) using GNSS, 2011- 2014, funded by US AOARD (United States Asian Office of Aerospace Research & Development) as Doctoral Student

• “Design and Implementation of Multi-Channel Pseudolite GPS Baseband Module” at Central Electronics Engineering Research Institute “CEERI”, Pilani, Rajasthan, India,  Jan – July, 2011 as an Intern for 6 months

 

VII. Publications/Conferences

• Varun Alluri, V Rajesh Chowdhary, Soham Banerjee, Sushrut Joshi, Nikhil Kothari, “Comparison and Validation of VTEC Derived from GPS, IRI-Plas and NeQuick-2 during 2015 and 2019 in India”, International Journal of Geoinformatics. Vol. 16, No.4, 2020 - Accepted.

• N.V.B.S., Karthikeya, Tripathi, N.K., Chowdhary, V. R., Pal,I., “Development of Mobile Online Solar Powered Smart Weather and Air Quality” in the FOSS4G Asia 2018 held at Moratuwa, Sri Lanka, during 2nd - 5th December 2018.

• Neeli Rayappa Raghavendra, J.R.K. Kumar Dabbakuti, V.Rajesh chowdhary, Nitin K. Tripathi, D.Venkata Ratnam, “Modeling of local ionospheric time varying characteristics based on singular value decomposition over low-latitude GPS stations”,Astrophysics and Space Science 363 (9), 182, 2018

• Sivavaraprasad, G., Otsuka, Y., Tripathi,N.K., Chowdhary, V.R., Ratnam, D.V., Khan, A.K., “Spatial and temporal characteristics of ionospheric total electron content over Indian equatorial and low-latitude GNSS stations” in Conference on Signal Processing And Communication Engineering Systems (SPACES), 4th -5th January 2018 (IEEE Xplore).

• Suraj, P.S., Kumar Dabbakuti, J.R.K., Chowdhary, V.R., Nitin K. Tripathi, D.Venkata Ratnam “Linear time series modeling of GPS-derived TEC observations over the Indo-Thailand region” https://doi.org/10.1007/s00190-017-1099-6, Journal of Geodesy, 2017

• V Rajesh Chowdhary, Nitin K Tripathi, Sanit Arunpold, “Ionospheric Impact of Severe Space Weather Events on GNSS Measurements from Thailand” in 2nd International Conference on Aerospace Electronics, Electrical, Communications & Instrumentation, Vijayawada, India, 22nd -23rd October 2016.

• Sarawoot Rungruenwajiake, Dessi Marlia, Azad Ahmad Mansoori,V. Rajesh Chowdhary, "Investigation of 08 November 2004 Storm effects on Ionosphere at Southern and Northern hemisphere and its comparison with IRI and RT-IRI", in International Reference Ionosphere (IRI) 2015 Workshop, during 2nd -13th November 2015, Bangkok, Thailand.

• Chowdhary, V.R., Tripathi, N.K., Arunpold.S., Raju,D.K., Characterization of GPS-TEC in low-lattitude region over Thailand during 2010-2012, Annals of Geophysics. Vol 58, No 5, 2015.

• Chowdhary, V.R., Tripathi, N.K., Arunpold, S., Raju, D.K.,Variations of total electron content in the equatorial anomaly region in Thailand, Advance in Space Research., 55,231-242, 2015.

• Arunpold, S., Tripathi, N.K., Chowdhary, V.R., Raju, D.K., Comparison of GPS-TEC measurements with IRI-2007 and IRI-2012 modeled TEC at an equatorial latitude station, Bangkok, Thailand. J. Atmos. Sol. Terr. Phys. 117, 88–94, 2014.

• Tripathi, N.K., Chowdhary, V.R., Arunpold, S., “Ionospheric Scintillations during increasing Solar Activities using GPS”, in Asian Congress on Citizen & Environment Safety & Security, U-Town, Singapore, 5th - 7th  June 2013.

• Chowdhary, V.R., Tripathi, N.K., “Study of low-latitude Ionospheric Scintillations during increasing solar activities using GPS – SCINDA data” in 4th International Conference on Geographic Information Technology for Natural Disaster Management, Colombo, Sri Lanka, 7th-8th November 2012.

• Chowdhary, V.R., Yahsodhan, M., Rabinder, H., “The Designing and Building of Cost-Effective f/8 Newtonian Reflector  Optical Telescope” as a virtual participant , in The Seventeenth International Conference on Learning ,Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong, July 6th -9th 2010.

• Chowdhary, V.R., Yahsodhan, M., Rabinder, H.,"A Perception of Establishing Cellular Network by Harnessing "SHARP", in National Conference on Advanced Manufacturing Techniques , Katra, Jammu, India, November 5th  -6th  2009.

 

VIII. Workshop/ Conference

• Organized two days “Inaugural International Workshop on Conversational Artificial Intelligence”, during 30th -31st August 2019 by Centre of Excellence in Artificial Intelligence at International Institute of Information Technology, Pune, India

• Organized two days “Inaugural International Workshop on FOSS4G for Digital & Skill India”, during 17th – 18th August 2018 by Centre of Excellence in Geoinformatics at International Institute of Information Technology, Pune, India

• Organized five days workshop on “Geospatial Inputs for Enabling Master Plan Formulation under AMRUT Sub-scheme”

• Facilitated half day workshop on “Digital Education Platforms – SWAYAM, An Initiative by Government of India”, delivered by Dr Manpreet Singh Manna, Director for All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), India on 11th January 2018 at International Institute of Information Technology, Pune, India.

• Organized one day conference on “Flood Rapid Defence System” in association with Korean Institute of Civil Engineering & Building Technology, South Korea at AIT on 21st November 2017.

• Organized two days workshop on “Mobile Web GIS Applications for Monitoring & Evaluation” in association with Open Source Geo (OSGeo) at Holiday Inn, Bangkok during 25th -26th August 2017.

• Organized four days workshop on “Creating Research Competency” in association with “National Research Council of Thailand” at Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand, funded by NRCT, during 3rd – 6th July 2017.

• Organized two weeks “Geo Services 4 Sustainability (GeoS4S) International Summer School – 1” co-funded by the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union at Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand during 22nd May – 2nd June 2017.

• Organized a one week workshop on BioShare Asia at Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand, during 2nd -6th August 2016.

• Program Coordinator for “6th International Conference on Health GIS 2015” during 19th -21st November 2015 in Mysore, India.

• Organizing and Logistics committee member for “Free and Open Source Solution for Geoinformatics (FOSS4G), ASIA Conference” Bangkok, Thailand, 2nd -5th December, 2014.

• Organizing and Logistics committee member for “5th International Conference on Health GIS 2013” Bangkok, Thailand, 21st -23rd August 2013.

• Organizing and Coordination committee member for “World Hindu Economic Forum 2013” Bangkok, Thailand, 10th – 11th August 2013.

• Organizing committee member for “4th International Conference on Geographic Information Technology for Natural Disaster Management”, Colombo, Sri Lanka, 7th-8th November 2012.

• Organizer & Volunteer in the “Department of Science & Technology-Inspire Science Camp” at International Institute of Information Technology, Pune, India during 2009 to 2010.

 

IX. Outreach Activities

• Conducted 1 day workshop on “IPR, Patents & Research Proposals” at RDCC & IPR Cell of International Institute of Information Technology, Pune, India o 25th Janaury 2020

• Conducted 2 days international workshop on “Open Source Web GIS Platforms” co-sponsored by Savitribai Phule Pune University  at Centre of Excellence in Geoinformatics, International Institute of Information Technology, Pune, India during 10th -11th Janaury 2020.

• Conducted 3 days workshops on “QGIS Awareness Workshop” for department of land records and Inspector general of registration and stamp controller of government of Maharashtra state at College of Engineering Pune, India during 25th – 27th July 2019.

• Conducted a one week hands-on training on “Urban Disaster Risk Reduction using Geospatial Technologies” at Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad, India under MHRD sponsored GIAN project during 11th -16th December 2018 with Prof Nitin Kumar Tripathi.

• Conducted 2 days “Open Source GIS Applications for Monitoring, Evaluation & Research” at Centre of Excellence in Geoinformatics, International Institute of Information Technology, Pune, India during 11th -12th October 2018.

• Conducted 3 days National level Faculty Development Program on “Geoinformatics System” at Department of Computer Engineering, International Institute of Information Technology, Pune, India during 24th – 26th April 2018

• Conducted 4 days Add-On course on “Introduction to Geoinformatics” at Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering Department, International Institute of Information Technology, Pune, India, during 15th -18th February 2018.

• Conducted five days workshop on “Remote Sensing & GIS Applications” at Civil Department, Vasireddy Venkatadri Institute of Technology, Nambur, Guntur , Andhra Pradesh, India, during 18th – 22th December 2017.

• Conducted two days training for “Capacity Building Programme on Flood Risk Assessment and Management” at AIT for Climate Technology Centre & Network (CTCN) project, during 30th October – 8th November 2017 as a resource personnel.

• Conducted 5 days workshop on “Geoinformatics System Development” at JIS College of Engineering, Kalyani, West Bengal, India during 24th – 28th July 2017.

• Conducted a one week hands-on training on GIS for Civil Engineering for V R Siddhartha Engineering College at Vijayawada, India during 2nd -7th January 2017.

• Conducted a one week hands-on training on “Urban Planning & Management” at SJ College of Engineering, Mysore, India under MHRD sponsored GIAN project during 24th -30th July 2016 with Prof Nitin Kumar Tripathi.

• Conducted a one-week hands-on training on RS & GIS for UNDP personnel at AIT during 24th -28th November 2015.

• Installation and setup of new “Magnetometer Station” under AMBER project at AIT, Bangkok, Thailand, 10th -11th April, 2014.

• Installation and setup of new “Magnetometer Station” under AMBER project at PSU, Phuket, Thailand, 7th -9th April, 2014.

 

X. Workshop/Conferences/Trainings Received

• Attended 4 days workshop on “BioShare Asia” at French Institute of Pondicherry, India, during 4th – 7th October 2017.

• Attended 2 weeks “A COSPAR capacity building Workshop” & IRI-2015 Workshop at KMITL, Bangkok during 2nd -13th November 2015.

• Attended three days “Regional Workshop on Geo-referenced Disaster Risk Management System for South-East Asia and East Asia and the Pacific” in United Nations, Bangkok, 20th – 22nd February 2013.

• Attended two days Conference on “Ionospheric Study Task Force” at “International Civil Aviation Organization” Bangkok affiliated to “United Nations”, 15th -17th October 2012. 

• Attended a workshop on “Strategies for Urban Flooding Management” at AIT, Bangkok, 28th-29th June 2012.

• Attended “Two Days Workshop on Science and Technology initiatives in atmospheric science for engineering staff”, at National Atmospheric Research Laboratory “NARL”, Gadanki , India, 25th -26th November 2010.

 

XI. Paper reviewer

• International journal of Geoinformatics

• Technology in Society, Elsevier

• Society of Engineering and Management Sciences, India

 

XII. Professional Membership

• International Association of Engineers since 2020 membership number 263031

• OSGeo Charter Member since 2018

• Committee of Space Research (COSPAR) since 2015

• The Indian Science Congress Association Since 2009 membership number L15110

 

XIII. Positions of Responsibilities

• Head for Research Development & Consultancy cell & Intellectual property (IPR) cell at International Institute of Information Technology, Pune, India 20th March 2018 – Till.

• Head of Center of Excellence in Geoinformatics at at International Institute of Information Technology, Pune, India 17th August 2018 – Till.   

• Co-ordinator of Entrepreneurship Development Cell (EDC) of institute at International Institute of Information Technology, Pune, India 1st January 2019 – Till.

• IEEE Co-ordinator of institute at International Institute of Information Technology, Pune, India 1st January 2019 – July 2019.

• Program Coordinator for “AIT Summer Education Camp 2018” for the undergraduate students from UGI Group of Institutions, India from 17th - 30th June, 2018.

• Project Associate in the “AIT Winter Education Camp & Study Tour 2018” for the undergraduate students from JIS group of institutions, India from 5th – 18th January 2018.

• Staff representative of August semester 2017 for AIT Indian Association.

• Project Associate in the “AIT Education Workshop 2017” for the undergraduate students from Lucknow & Guhwathi, India from 8th -14th September, 2017.

• Project Associate in the “AIT Summer Education Camp 2017” for the undergraduate students from UGI Group of Institutions, India from 15th -28th June, 2017.

• Project Associate in the “AIT Education Workshop 2017” for the undergraduate students from Kolkata, India from 2nd -15th February, 2017.

• Project Associate in the “AIT Education Workshop 2016” for the undergraduate students from Lucknow & Guhwathi, India from 2nd -14th September, 2016.

• Project Associate in the “AIT Summer Education Camp 2016” for the undergraduate students from UGI Group of Institutions, India from 16th -30th June, 2016.

• Project Associate in the “Winter Education Workshop 2016 at AIT” for the undergraduate students from Kolkata & Guhawati, India from 2nd-14th January, 2016.

• Project Associate in the “AIT Education Workshop 2015” for the undergraduate students from Lucknow, India from 17th -30th September, 2015.

• Project Associate in the “Summer Education Workshop 2015 at AIT” for the undergraduate students from UGI group of Institutions from India from 30th June-13th July, 2015.

• Project Associate in the “Winter Education Workshop 2015 at AIT” for the undergraduate students from Kolkata, India from 5th-17th January, 2015.

• SHE foundation representative for unified bachelor’s master’s degree program at AIT from January 2015 to December 2017.

• Project Associate in the “Summer Education Workshop 2014 at AIT” for under graduate students from UGI group of Institutions from India, 5th -18th July 2014.

• Project Associate in the “Winter Education Workshop 2014 at AIT” for the undergraduate students from Kolkata, India from 4th-15th January, 2014.

• Project Associate in the “Summer Education Workshop 2013 at AIT” for two consecutive batches of under graduate students from India, 8th -22st July and 23rd July- 3rd August 2013.

• Served as “President of Indian Association at AIT” brought eminent changes in the public relations part by connecting with Industries, Academicians and Self-Help Groups as well.

• Project Associate in the “Summer Education Workshop 2012 at AIT” where students of Bachelor degree were taken to different research centres to get exposed to various on-going research and future technologies. Also professors and distinguished faculties taught about their expertise domains, 9th -23rd July, 2012.

• Organizer and Volunteer for many “Cultural Events inside and outside AIT” Thailand.

• Volunteer for DST-Inspire Camp at International Institute of Information Technology, Pune, India during 2009-11