Professional Experience

University of Edinburgh,

Old College, South Bridge,

EH8 9YL Edinburgh,

United Kingdom.

Horizon 2020 EU TRAINED Grant Announcement

With the support of the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie COFUND grant agreement No. 801215, TRAIN@Ed: 'Transnational Research And Innovation Network At Edinburgh’ and the Edinburgh and South East Scotland City Region Deal Data-Driven Innovation Initiative.

Political Settlements Research Programme (PSRP), University of Edinburgh, acknowledges support of its funders, supported by the UK Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), the Covid Collective is based at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS). The Collective brings together the expertise of, UK and Southern based research partner organisations and offers a rapid social science research response to inform decision-making on some of the most pressing Covid-19 related development challenges.

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1 August 2019 - 29 February 2020 :

Associate Professor,

Dept of Information Science & Engineering(ISE),

CMRIT, Bengaluru.

Head, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Cell (I&E),

Dept of ISE, CMRIT Bengaluru.

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March 2019 - July 2019

Associate Professor

School of Computing Skills and IT

Bhartiya Skill Development University

Jaipur, Rajasthan

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July 2015 - Nov 2018

Science and Technology Manager (BGCT), GEO-C Smart Cities European Union Project.

NOVA IMS (Information Management School), University Nova Lisboa.

Lisbon, Portugal. Member of MagIC; Profile.

Project Website : www.geo-c.eu Team Description

Using Geoinformatics, Computer Science, Information Management, Geographic Information Systems and related disciplines in smart cities and/or in research areas related to smart cities (e.g. geographic information systems, sensors, location-based services, mobile and ubiquitous computing, crowd sourcing, technology adoption by citizens). It is a large-scale international project involving Univ Nova Lisboa Portugal, Universitat Jaume I de Castelló (UJI) Spain and Westfälische Wilhelms - Universität Münster (WWMU) Germany plus city councils and industries, including managerial aspects, with programming in open source software and familiarity with the underlying licenses, methods and tools. This post doctoral position includes:

The management of the technical aspects of developing a large open-source framework;

Supporting doctoral researchers in developing their own research agenda;

Facilitating the collaboration of doctoral researchers groups in Germany, Spain, and Portugal, and

Contributing to the overall management of the project. Website : www.geo-c.eu

GEO-C is funded by the European Commission HORIZON 2020 within the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, International Training Networks (ITN), European Joint Doctorates (EJD). The funding period is January 1, 2015 - December 31, 2018, Grant Agreement number 642332-GEO-C-H2020-MSCA-ITN-2014.

Lecturing GEOTECH course. Open City Toolkit development page.

Visits & Collaborations : Visits to National Statistical Institute Lisbon, Lisboaenova.org, University Jaume I Castellon Spain, ESRI Lisbon, SAS Lisbon, Lisbon City Municipality, Gulbenkian Institute of Sciences Portugal.

Organising: GEO-C Research Retreat 2016 at Sesimbra, Portugal.

Development: Contributing to the development of an "Open City Toolkit" for GEO-C that encompasses the 15 PhD contributions into one toolkit for smarter cities.

Smart Open Lisboa Challenge 2016 participant through own start-up called "Geo-Cities Solutions".

Dissemination: Open City Toolkit educative dissemination channel development on Youtube.

Conducted Open Data Re-Use Survey in Lisbon Municipality City Council.

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May 2014 - June 2015 Assistant Professor, Geomatics Engineering Department,

Faculty Member Hazard Applications & Research Center,

Faculty of Engineering, Bulent Ecevit University, Turkey.

Teaching and Research.

Taught the following courses for the semesters ending January 2015 and June 2015 to undergraduates, postgraduates and doctoral students.

For Autumn 2014

Undergraduate courses:

JDF 431 Geographic Information System [5 credits]

JDF 451 Land Information System [5 credits]

YDL 285/283 Foreign Language / Technical English Documentation (Yabanci Dil III) [4 ECTS]

INS 335 Numerical Analysis for Civil Engineering [3 ECTS]

Postgraduate / Doctoral :

JDF 736 Advanced Geographic Information System [6 ECTS]

For Spring 2015

Undergraduate courses:

JDF 446 Urban Information Systems [5 ECTS]

JDF 322 Database Management System [5 ECTS]

YDL 286 Yabanci Dil IV (Technical English Documentation) [4 ECTS]

Postgraduate / Doctoral :

JDF 737 Advanced Database Management System [6 ECTS]

JDF 816 Web GIS and Applications [6 ECTS]

Website:

http://geomatik.beun.edu.tr/personel/emek-verenler/

RESEARCH:

-- FEASIBILITY STUDY REPORT FOR PROJECT ON : EFFECT OF COASTAL VULNERABILITY & SEA LEVEL RISE ON SOCIO ECONOMIC PARAMETERS AROUND BLACK SEA USING HIGH RESOLUTION MAPPING DATA Addressing Coastal Management Through Spatial Vulnerability Mapping Using Remote Sensing, SRTM/ASTER/MODIS DEM, GIS and Spatial Analysis Tools KEYWORDS : Sea Level Rise (SLR), Coastal Vulnerability Index (CVI), Social Vulnerability Index (SVI), SRTM, ASTER, MODIS, Bruun’s Rule, GIS, Black Sea, DEM, Classification.

-- Health GIS architecture and statistical analysis methodology documentation.

-- Post Disaster Rescue and Aid Monitoring System.

-- Multi Hazard Risk Assessment System.

-- Fast Victim Determination Search System.

-- Zonguldak GIS Smart City architecture presentation.

-- Ankara Mining Warning and Alert System presentation.

-- Bursa Project architecture and development method paper.

-- Mining Alert Warning Systems research paper.

-- Zonguldak Multi Hazard GIS Methodology paper.

-- Tubitak project proposal.

-- EU project proposals.

-- Traffic and route guidance GIS and mobile alerts system for commuters, travelers and tourists.

-- International Collaboration Efforts within ERASMUS, TUBITAK, HORIZON 2020 and other Asian partner universities.

-- Planning Geodetic GPS data collection modes comparative accuracy studies.

-- Glacier melting and lake snout bursting studies on Himalayan Indian and Turkey glaciers, in collaboration with Indian universities.

-- AFAD Project Proposal Submission.

PROJECTS INVOLVED IN :

1. BUSKI Project : Bursa GIS Mapping for Control Point Establishment using ArcGIS.

2. AFAD Natural Hazard Alert System for Turkey Project Proposal Submitted “Automated Landslide Early Warning System for Turkey – TURKALEWS ….. EK A: ULUSAL DEPREM ARAŞTIRMA PROGRAMI (UDAP) – AFAD Ankara Turkey. Madenlerde Acil Durum ve Madenci Kurtarma Yönetim Sistemi, D. Bhattacharya, H.S. Kutoglu, AliIhsan Sekertekin.

3. Mining Ministry/ GIS Directorate Ankara / TUBITAK “Mining Warning and Alert System” by D. Bhattacharya, H.S. Kutoglu, C. Mekik, project proposal submitted.

4. Zonguldak GIS Smart City Project presentation done at Municipality.

Dec 2012 - May 2014 Senior Researcher at University of Pardubice, Pardubice, Czech Republic

Part of European Union Programme for Enhancement of Research and Development Pools of Excellence

Responsibilities at Geo-informatics Group, Institute of Systems Engg & Informatics, Faculty of Economic and Administrative Sciences, researching into Development of Distributed GIS with Hadoop, WebGIS in the domain of Regional Sciences & Informatics specializing Geoinformatics, incorporating system efficiency and accuracy improvement criteria. Integrating & Interlinking Opensource Geo-spatial Datasets For Optimal Utility in Ranking using Python, PostGIS.

July 2013 - September 2013 Jan - Mar 2014

ERASMUS MUNDUS EXPERTS II PostDoc award, Politecnico di Torino Italy (6 months)

PostDoc award (EU, by Goettingen Univ Germany) taken at ITHACA (Information Technology for Humanitarian Assistance, Cooperation and Action), Politecnico di Torino Italy

Field of Work in 'Interlinking Opensource Geo-spatial Datasets For Optimal Utility in Ranking using Python and PostGIS' and ‘OpenWebGIS based Early Warning Systems for Natural Calamities in Real Time’.

Feb 2012 - Dec 2012 Postdoctoral Research Associate at I.I.Sc (Indian Institute of Science) Bangalore, India

GIS SPECIALIST Grade II, Center for Infrastructure, Sustainable Transportation & Urban Planning (CiSTUP), I.I.Sc.

Responsibilities of conducting studies for various related projects, organizing/conducting workshops /seminars/conferences on the subject of Geomatics in Transportation/Urban Infrastructure, Assist the Chairman CiSTUP in interactions with the Govt. or any other agency on the issues of urban policy etc. Supervising of projects of CiSTUP. Other academic and research activities assigned from time to time.

Assistant Wardenship for New Men’s Hostel @ I.I.Sc. Bangalore.

2009 - 2010 Visiting Researcher (1 Oct 2009 to 30 Sep 2010, part of PhD).

Information Technology for Humanitarian Assistance, Cooperation and Action (ITHACA), Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy, under Italian Ministry of University and Research (MIUR) grant for Young Indian Researcher.

Research : Development of a Popular Usage Based Hazard Warning System.

INDUSTRIAL EXPERIENCE

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09/2007 - 10/2008 Senior Software Engineer at Sasken Communications Technologies Limited, Bangalore, India

Development of Cellular Mobile Network Management Systems (NMS) for Nokia Siemens Networks.

Technologies Java J2EE, Shell scripting, Oracle RDBMS, C++, EMS, NMS etc.

TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE AND EXPERTISE

Information technology, Operating systems, Programming languages, Web programming, Database, XML Technologies, Software architecture design formalisms and technologies.

Linux, RHEL, Fedora, Ubuntu, MS-DOS, Windows 98, NT, 2000, ME, XP, Vista. BASIC, FORTRAN, C, C++,

Java J2EE, VC++, Shell scripting.

HTML, XML, J2EE, JSP, JavaScript, GeoNode, GeoServer, UMN MapServer, ArcIMS, ArcSDE, ArcGIS Server.

Oracle RDBMS, PLSQL, SQL.

XML Parsers.

Requirement Analysis, Low Level Design, High Level Design, Coding, Testing, Validation. Waterfall

model, V model and hybrid model of development.

Geographic information systems (GIS) and earth sciences,

GIS tools and software

GIS standards Experience with geospatial data (types, formats, etc.)

ArcGIS, ERDAS, ENVI, IDRISI Kilimanjaro.

USGS classification scheme, Indian Geological scheme.

Classification from satellite imageries of different formats, layers and shape file creations,

Knowledge-Base(KB) creation in Oracle 10g

Landslide, Slope and Rock engineering.

Other skills

Project management experience.

Project proposal writing experience.

Problem solving and analytical skills.

Experience in working in EU

and international projects.

Created\reviewed technical documentations for NokiaSeimensNetwork project (14 months).

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Jun 2006 - Sep 2006 PG Scholar Project at IIT Roorkee, India

Comparative Study of Knowledge Representation Schemes (KRS)

Deals with the strengths and weaknesses of different KRSs with respect to the application developed for landslide hazard calculations.

Jan 2005 - Jul 2005 Lecturer at Mewar Institute of Technology, India

Teaching responsibilities of B.Tech 1 & 3 year students

Subjects taught are Programming Language C, Computer Architecture and Operating System Concepts.

Jan 2004 - Jun 2004 Project Intern at Northern Indian Textile Research Association, U.P, India

Developed as a part of a team, "Software to Automate Steam Flow Measurement"