Awards & Achievements

• Future Leadership in ICT Standards in Europe “ELITE-S” in Dublin (ADAPT Centre SFI, DCU) Ireland.

• Oct 2019 European Union’s Horizon 2020 programme under Marie Skłodowska-Curie Grant Agreement No. 801522. ELITE-S 2019 offered the fellowship at Maynooth University selecting my proposal Enhancement of Data Standardisation for Smarter Cities using Geospatial Infrastructure and Artificial Intelligence (GEOSPACE) with very high score, and fellowship of nearly €/Year 60,000. But unfortunately I had to turn it down, and declined to join owing to job conditions in employment contract in the job I was holding at that time. http://elite-fellowship.eu/

• 2013 ERASMUS MUNDUS EXPERTS II PostDoc grant (EU, by Goettingen Univ Germany) taken at ITHACA ( Information Technology for Humanitarian Assistance, Cooperation and Action), Politecnico di Torino Italy in the field of ‘OpenWebGIS based Early Warning Systems for Natural Calamities in Real Time’.

  • Selected for Post Doc EU project Enhancement of Research and Development Pools of Excellence @ UPCE Czech Republic Geoinformatics group 2013-2014. (The Rectors Resolution).

  • Turkish Governmental Coordination Committee Member for Science and Technology Development Govt Report (Link : Please look at page 11 of 12.).

  • Best Doctoral Thesis Award 2012 Innovative Student Projects Award Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) New Delhi.

  • Ministry of University and Research Italy (MIUR) Grant for Young Indian Researcher 2009-2010.

  • Gandhian Young Technological Innovation Award-2013 by National Innovation Foundation & SRISTI, @ IIM-Ahmedabad.

• FIG (International Federation of Surveyors) Foundation 2009 Grant winning paper at Eilat Israel.

  • University of Delhi, Faculty of Computer Science Entrance Exam for undergraduate programme B.I.T. All India Rank 422 (out of ~36k) to get admission, for in total <1000 seats.

• Sessions Chair at ICGE 2014 Istanbul organized by WASET, Program Chair Brochure

• India Govt Ministry of Human Resources & Development Fellowship for PhD, MTech at IIT Roorkee 2008-2011, 2005-07 respectively after GATE‘05 95.06%ile in Computer Science & Engineering.

  • Merit Certificate for participation and presentation of paper An Evaluation of Knowledge Representation Schemes in Perspective of a Decision Support System in CIV-ERE 2007 National Level Paper Presentation Contest in Civil Engineering at IIT Kanpur.

INVITED TALKS/LECTURES

• GEO-C: Open Smart Cities Platform, invited speaker at Zoom Smart Cities Conference Lisbon, 18-19 May 2016 Speaker's Profile

  • Aalto University, Finland, 10 June 2015, talk on "Geoinformatics for Sustainable Development in Context of SDIs and GeoData Analytics", at Dept of Geoinformatics, Urban Planning and Real Estate.

  • Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, 12 Feb 2015, Expert lecture on "Geospatial Technologies for Sustainable Development" at Civil Engg Dept.

• Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology Dehradun, 13 Feb 2015, Expert lecture on "Understanding Geo-Phenomena Through Geospatial Technologies".

• Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi, 1 September 2011, Guest Lecture on "Geohazard Assessment and Warning Communication Using Geoinformatics."

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