Research Projects & Publications

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• 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.

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

• 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.

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

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Sponsored Research & Consultancy 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 Alignment” for Tom Tom India Pvt Ltd, 2019-20. 

• 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

Journals / Conference Publications

• 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, R., Pal, V.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.