Invited Talks/Resource Person

Talks as Resource Person/Invited Speaker

1. Delivered an invited talk on "Decoding Library User Sentiments Applying Sentiment Analysis: Approaches, Tools and Challenges" in the 8th International Conference of Asian Libraries (ICAL–2025) on the theme “Building Smart Libraries: Leveraging AI-Based Technologies”, organised at Gautam Buddha University, Greater Noida (UP) – 25 April 2025.

2. Delivered an invited talk as Resource Person on "The Significance of AI in Digital Content Creation" in the 2-Day National Workshop on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Digital Education, organised by CEC, New Delhi in collaboration with EMRC, BBAU, Lucknow. Discussed key features of various AI tools – 28 February 2025.

3. Delivered an invited talk on "MOOCs, SWAYAM and Content Creation: Transforming Digital Learning Experiences" in the One-Day Workshop on ‘Online Teaching and Learning System—SWAYAM and MOOCS’, organised by IQAC, Visva-Bharati University, Shantiniketan, West Bengal – 18 February 2025.

4. Delivered an invited lecture as a resource person on "Digital Tools for Online Teaching and Content Creation" in the Short Term Course on "E-Content Development and Open-Educational Resources" (Offline Mode), organised by UGC-Malaviya Mission Teacher Training Centre (MMTTC), University of Rajasthan, Jaipur – 13 February 2025.

5. Delivered an invited lecture as a resource person on "Introduction to Moodle: A Learning Management System" in the Short Term Course on "E-Content Development and Open-Educational Resources" (Offline Mode), organised by UGC-Malaviya Mission Teacher Training Centre (MMTTC), University of Rajasthan, Jaipur – 13 February 2025.

6. Delivered an invited talk on "Scholarly Publication Process: Planning, Preparing, Pre-publication and Post-publication" in the One-Week National Workshop on Navigating Scholarly Communication: Advanced Tools and Techniques in Research (February 3-8, 2025), organised by GSV Central Library, Chhatrapati Sahu Ji Maharaj University, Kanpur – 03 February 2025.

7. Delivered an invited talk on "Advanced Searching and Referencing Tools" in the Faculty Development Program organised by Digvijaynath PG College, Gorakhpur – 21 October 2024.

8. Delivered an invited talk as a resource person on "Selecting Ideal Target Journal: A Guide for Researchers" in the Online Training Program on Maximising Research Visibility for Agricultural Professionals, organised by the National Institute of Agricultural Extension Management (MANAGE) – 08 October 2024.

9. Delivered an invited talk as a resource person on "Reference Management Using Zotero" in the Online Training Program on Maximising Research Visibility for Agricultural Professionals, organised by the National Institute of Agricultural Extension Management (MANAGE) – 08 October 2024.

10. Served as a resource person and delivered sessions on Web Scraping, OCR, Handling Datasets, and Fetching Data using APIs during Day 1 of the Two-Day In-House Workshop on “Digital Media Text Analysis”, jointly organised by the Department of Library and Information Science and the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, in collaboration with DST-Technology Enabling Centre, Mizoram University, Aizawl. Tools covered included Tesseract, Postman, BeautifulSoup, and Webscraper – 26 September 2024.

11. Delivered an invited talk (online) as a resource person on "Visualising Research Data using VOSviewer and Managing References with Zotero" in the Six-Day Short-Term Programme titled "Empowering Education: Leveraging Cutting-Edge ICT Tools for Teaching and Scholarly Publications", organised by Malaviya Mission Teacher Training Centre (MMTTC), Berhampur University, Berhampur – 16 August 2024.

12. Acted as Chief Inaugurator and delivered an invited talk on "Open Access in Scholarly Communication: Recent Trends" in the National Seminar on Open Access Horizons: Exploring the Future of Library and Information Science, organised by Vaidyanath College, Parli Vaijnath, Maharashtra – 26 July 2024.

13. Delivered a talk on "Referencing Tools in Social Sciences and Humanities" in the Online Faculty Development Programme on Excellence in University Teaching and Research, organised by Shri Ramswaroop Memorial University, Lucknow – 20 July 2024.

14. Delivered an online talk on "AI-Based Tools for Literature Search and Systematic Reviews" in a One-Day Lecture Programme organised by Chakreshwar Saikia Central Library, Nandanath Saikia College, Titabar, Jorhat, Assam – 09 June 2024.

15. Delivered an invited talk on "Understanding Target Journal Selection" in virtual mode as part of the Online Training Programme on "Enhancing Scientific & Technical Writing Skills for Agricultural Professionals", organised by the National Institute of Agricultural Extension Management – 27 May 2024.

16. Delivered an invited talk on "Reference Management Using Zotero" in virtual mode as part of the Online Training Programme on "Enhancing Scientific & Technical Writing Skills for Agricultural Professionals", organised by the National Institute of Agricultural Extension Management – 27 May 2024.

17. Delivered the 3rd lecture in the "Prof BN Chatterjee Lecture Series" at the Department of Applied Economics, University of Lucknow. The earlier lectures of the series were delivered by Prof Alok Rai, Vice Chancellor, LU and Prof J V Vaishampayan, former VC of CSJMU and BU, Jhansi. The topic of the lecture was "AI-Based Tools for Literature Search and Systematic Reviews" – 09 March 2024.

18. Delivered lectures and demonstrations on "Unveiling Moodle: Open Source Learning Management System (OS-LMS)" in the Technical Sessions XVIII & XIX of the Six-day National Level Online Workshop on Unlocking Knowledge: Open Access Solutions (UKOAS-2024) organised by the Vishwa-Bharti Library Network – 23 February 2024.

19. Shared views on data visualisation in the National Webinar on "Unlocking Library Data: Transforming Raw Data Into Insights through Visualisations" organised by LNMIIT Central Library, Jaipur. Discussed the role of data visualisation in libraries and provided a live demonstration of visualising library data – 16 February 2024.

20. Delivered invited lectures on "Exploratory Data Analysis" in the three-day training programme on Survey Techniques and Data Analysis organised by the State Planning Institute, Government of Uttar Pradesh, Lucknow. The programme was attended by newly recruited Group I and II officers of state departments – 24 January 2024.

21. Delivered three invited lectures on "Social and Educational Research – meaning, nature, purpose, and scope", "Approaches to Research in Social Sciences", and "Identifying Research Problem" in the Two-week Capacity Building Programme (CBP) for Young Social Science Faculty organised by the Institute of Education, Bundelkhand University, Jhansi and the Indian Council of Social Science Research, New Delhi – 16 January 2024.

22. Delivered an invited lecture on "Decoding Academic Publishing: Navigating Journal Selection, Copyright Protocols, and Identifying Predatory Practices" as resource person in the Capacity Building Programme on Public Policy and Governance in India, organised by the Department of Political Science, Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Lucknow – 29 November 2023.

23. Delivered an invited talk on "AI-Based Tools for Literature Search" in the 2nd International Conference on Research Methodology (ICRM-2023) organised by Dr Shakuntala Mishra Rehabilitation University, Lucknow and Science Tech Institute, Lucknow. Discussed features of available literature discovery tools and tools for conducting systematic reviews – 28 October 2023.

24. Delivered lectures and conducted hands-on sessions on DSpace in the National Seminar cum Hands-on Practice on Library Automation and Digitization Software at Jiwaji University, Gwalior, organised by the School of Studies in Library and Information Science – 24 September 2023.

25. Delivered a talk on "Strategies for Choosing a Web-Scale Discovery Service: Key Considerations" in an online refresher course in Library and Information Science organised by HRDC, Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University, Nagpur. Thank you to Dr Satyaprakash Nikose for the invitation – 21 September 2023.

26. Attended the International Training Workshop on Open Science and SDGs from 28th August to 8th September 2023 at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. Delivered a lightning talk on "Status of Open Science and Sustainable Development Goals in India" during the programme – 28 August 2023.

27. Spoke as a panellist on NEP 2020 with a lens of Research and Innovation in the event 'Three years of NEP 2020', organised by the NEP Implementation Committee of Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Lucknow – 26 July 2023.

28. Presented a paper entitled "Implementation of Digital Scholarship in the Library and Information Science Curriculum" at the National Conference on Knowledge Transactions and Digital Scholarship – 2023, organised by the Department of Library and Information Science, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi – 10 April 2023.

29. Presented a paper entitled "Design of an Evaluation Framework for Content Analysis of Academic Library Portals" in the International Conference on Academic Libraries – 2023, organised by the University of Delhi – 06 April 2023.

30. Conducted sessions on DSpace in the "National Seminar cum Hands on Practice on Library Automation and Digitization Software", 18th to 24th Jan 2023 organised by the School of Studies in Library and Information Science, Jiwaji University, Gwalior.

31. Delivered lecture as resource person on "Cloud Computing Applications in Library and Information Centre" in a short term course on ICT in library organised by HRDC, Ranchi University on 26 Feb 2023. 

32. Delivered two invited talks, "Writing an academic research article" and "Publication process: planning, preparing, pre-publication and post publication" at the ICSSR sponsored Research Methodology Training Course in Social Science organised by Institute of Education, Bundelkhand University, Jhansi on 18th Jan 2023. 

33. Conducted sessions on "Developing Institutional Repositories using DSpace" from 6th Jan to 8th Jan 2023 in the National Workshop on Open Source Solutions for Library Management in Digital Era, 04th to 08th Jan 2023 organised by the School of Studies in Library and Information Science, Jiwaji University, Gwalior.

34. Delivered an invited talk on "Research Ethics: Plagiarism, Research Protocol Writing and Dissertation Writing" in One Week Online Workshop on Biostatistical Data Analysis and Research Methodology organised by Science Tech Institute, Lucknow (run by Manraj Kuwar Singh Educational Society, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh) on 27th Dec 2022.

35. Delivered an invited talk on "Implementing Augmented Reality in Academic Libraries" in one day National Workshop on Application of Augmented Reality in Academic Libraries at CK Thakur ACS College on 19th Dec 2022.

36. Acted as a resource person and delivered lectures and hands-on sessions on "Social Media Data Mining for Text and Sentiment Analysis"  in the two-day workshop on Social Media Data Mining for Text and Sentiment Analysis: Tools and Approaches organized by Dept of Mass Communication in collaboration with Technology Enabling Centre (DST) funded), Mizoram University held on 29th and 30th Sept 2022.

37. Delivered an invited talk on "Plagiarism - Concept and meaning" in one week workshop on research methodology and data analysis during 19-24 Sep 2022 organised by IQAC, the University of Lucknow on 23 Sep 2022.

38. Delivered an invited talk on "Exploring library resources for refining research" in Ten Days Workshop Sponsored by ICSSR on the topic “Research Methodology” from 21st - 30th March 2022 organised by the Department of Rural Management, BBAU Lucknow on 29th March 2022.

39.  Delivered an invited talk on "Patent, Copyright, and Plagiarism" in OneWeekOnline Faculty Development Program (FDP) on Advanced Research Methodology (During 21-27 March 2022) organised by Science Tech Institute, Lucknow, UP India on 25th March 2022.

40. Delivered an invited talk on "Cost Estimates for Research Data Management in Research Projects" in three days International Conference on Advancement in Interdisciplinary Research (ICAIR-2021), Jointly organised by Shia P.G. College, Lucknow, UP & Science Tech Institute, Lucknow, UP India during October 26th-28th, 2021.

41. Delivered an invited talk on "Understanding Journal Selection, Copyright, Predatory Publishing and Plagiarism in Scholarly Communication" in the Research Methodology teaching under Module-I of UGC-STRIDE Programme organised by Bundelkhand University, Jhansi on 1st April 2021.

42. Delivered two invited talks as a resource person on "Ethical aspects of science and social science research" and "Selecting a target journal for publication" in Pre-Phd Course work by UGC-Human Resource Development Center, Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Aurangabad on 23rd January 2021.

43. Delivered an invited talk on "Content Enrichment of Institutional Repository Records Consuming Linked Data" in LD4 Conference 2020 organised by Stanford Libraries on 31st July 2020.

44. Delivered an invited talk on “Open Access in Scholarly Communication: Recent Trends” in the National Web-conference on Future of Libraries in Digital Environment – Challenges and Opportunities for Librarianship in Post COVID Era organized by Chhattisgarh Library & Information Science Network CLISNET on 13th Aug 2020.

45. Delivered invited talk on the topic “Selecting Web Scale Discovery Service: Points to consider” in the National Webinar on Selecting Web Scale Discovery Service organized by Janata College Kabuganj, Assam on 10th August 2020.

46. Delivered invited talk on "Digital Tools and Services for Teaching and Research: A Practical Approach" at the web lecture series (Session II) on "E-learning, Online Teaching, and Electronic Devices: Practical Approaches" organized by the Central Library, Department of English and Internal Quality Assurance Cell, DR. B.R. Ambedkar College, Betai, Nadia, WB, India on 10th of July, 2020.

47. Delivered invited talk on “Research Ethics” and “Reference Management” in the UGC-STRIDE sponsored Research Capacity Building and Human Resource Development Programme during 24th April and 1st May 2020.

48. Delivered invited lectures on topics “Creating Immersive Infographics for Impactful Teaching”, “National and International MOOC initiatives and Educational resources”, “Using Google Classroom for Digital Learning”, “Delivering Educational Resources Using the Canvas Learning Management System” in the UGC sponsored Short Term Course on MOOCs, E-Content Development and Open Educational Resources organized by HRDC, Maharshi Dayanand Saraswati University, Ajmer on 5th-6th March 2020.

49. Delivered invited lectures on “Doing an Effective Literature Search” and “Writing Thematic Literature Review” in the PhD Course work programme of Bundelkhand University, Jhansi on 4th March 2020.

50. Delivered an invited talk on “Plagiarism and Research Ethics” in the National Conference on “Development of Digital Libraries in IPR Regime” organized by Dr Ram Manohar Lohiya National Law University, Lucknow on 22 Dec 2019.

51. Delivered invited lectures as a resource person on “Introduction and Overview on UNIMARC and MARC 21”, “Practice on Cataloguing Module and MARC code” and “Hands-on Practice on different types Bibliographic records” in National workshop on “Metadata Standard for Library Management” organized by Department of Library and Information Science, North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong from 25th-31st March 2019.

52. Acted as Rapporteur General in the International Conference on Rejuvenating Libraries in Modern Society organized by the Department of Library and Information Science, Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Lucknow 18th Feb 2019.

53. Presented paper and acted as Rapporteur General in the “National Conference on Relevance of Ranganathan Philosophy in 21st Century” organized by the Department of Library and Information Science, Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Lucknow held on 02 November 2018.

54. Delivered invited lectures on  “Quantitative Data Analysis, Tests of  Significance and Writing an academic article” to the Pre-PhD Scholars at the Bundelkhand University, Jhansi from Oct, 25-26, 2018.

55. Delivered invited lectures and conducted hands-on sessions on “Digital resources: nature, types and Characteristics”, “Content management system: Concept, types and principles”, “Content Management System: Architecture”, “Getting along with WordPress”, “Installation of WordPress “, “Getting along with Joomla”, and “Installation of Joomla and Development of Project” in Contact Classes for the PGDLIM programme at the School of Library and Information Science, CUG, Gandhinagar 1-4th Sep 2018.

56. Delivered invited lectures on  “Localisation and Internationalisation, Information Security Concerns for libraries” in the PGDLIM contact classes at the Central University of Gujarat, Gandhinagar.

57. Invited as resource person in National Workshop on Building Digital Libraries Using DSpace( NWBDLUD), Dec 21-22, 2017, Dr Ram Manohar Lohiya National Law University, Lucknow.

58. Delivered invited lectures on “Research Design: concept, typology and significance”, “Identification of Research Problem and Preparation of Synopsis”, “Systematic Approach to Literature review and Referencing”, and “Writing Research Monograph, Research Papers, Popular Articles and Reviews” to the Pre- PhD Scholars at Bundelkhand University, Jhansi from April 20-21, 2017.

59. Delivered an invited talk as a resource person on “Social Media in Academia” in Social Media Workshop organised by School of Library and Information Science, Central University of Gujarat, Feb 23-24, 2017.

60. Invited as a resource person for National Workshop-cum-Training Program on DSpace from 6-8 September 2016 at the Department of Library and Information Science, Mizoram University, Aizawl.

61. Acted as Subject Expert in the National Workshop on Library Automation and Content Management Using Open Source Software, February 14-15, 2016 organised by School of Studies in Library and Information Science, Jiwaji University, Gwalior, M.P.

62. Invited lecture on “Literature review and literature search” in Workshop on Research Methodology for PhD Scholars in Social Sciences, Sponsored by ICSSR

63. Invited lecture on “Plagiarism and How to write an academic research article” in Workshop on Research Methodology for PhD Scholars in Social Sciences, Sponsored by ICSSR 

64. Invited lecture on “Doing an effective literature search” in Pre PhD Course work of the Institute of Business and Management, at CSJMU, Kanpur.

65. Invited lecture on “Writing literature review” in Pre PhD Course work of the Institute of Business and Management, at CSJMU, Kanpur. 

66. Invited lecture on “Quantitative Analysis using SPSS” in Pre PhD Course Work, at Bundelkhand University, Jhansi.

67. Invited lecture on “Design and development of Digital Libraries using DSpace” in National Workshop on Design and Development of Digital Libraries using DSpace, 12- 13 April, 2012 at INMANTEC, Ghaziabad.

68. Invited lecture on “DSpace Installation and User Administration” in National Workshop on DSpace at Galgotia Business School, Ghaziabad, 25-27 May, 2012.

69. Pre-seminar tutorial on Moodle at National Conference on Next Generation Digital Libraries and Web Technologies: challenges and opportunities organized by SALIS, 19th August, 2010 at Krishna Engineering College, Coimbatore.

70. Tutorials on DSpace administration, membership, OAI-PMH, Installation and Customization at “National Workshop on Building Institutional Repositories using DSpace” held in August, 2009 at ITER, SOA University, Bhubaneswar.

71. Tutorials on DSpace at “Three Days Workshop on Developing Digital Library Using DSpace” at MSRIT Bangalore, from 27-29th August 2008.

72. Tutorials on DSpace at “National Workshop on DSpace for Building Institutional Repositories and Digital Libraries” organized by Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam at FISAT Angamaly, Kerala from 21-25 October, 2008.