Associate professor

Posted on: 2009-05-25

1. Name of the Applicant : Manjusha Kulshrestha 2 Address for the correspondence : 3. Date of Birth : September 26, 1962. 4. Sex : Female 5. Educational Qualification Sr. No. Degree Field of specialization discipline Name of the University Passed in the year Class / grade i Ph D Applied Mathematics. Topic is “PREDICTION OF WEATHER PARAMETERS USING HARMONIC ANALYSIS AND ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS.” Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara. 25th May 2007 Grading system is not there. ii M. Sc. Pure Mathematics Sardar Patel University, Vallabhvidya Nagar. June 1984 First with Distinction (72%) iii B. Sc. Mathematics Saurastra University, Rajkot June 1982 First (65%) (cont..) Sr. NO Name of Institute Period Post held Taught i Bahauddin Science College, Junagadh, India 23 th Nov 1984 to 15th April 1987 Lecturer in Mathematics To teach mathematics at Undergraduate level. Viz. Differential Equations, Calculus, Mathematical Analysis, Bio- Mathematics ii. R R Lalan College, Bhuj, India 02nd Dec. – 1987 to 05 th April 1989 Lecturer in Mathematics To teach mathematics at Undergraduate level. Viz. Differential equations, Calculus, Mathematical Analysis, Abstract Algebra. iii. H& H B Kotak Science College, Rajkot, Gujarat, India 08 th –20 th April 1989 Lecturer in Mathematics To teach mathematics at Undergraduate level. iv-(A) B A College of Agriculture, Anand Agricultural University, Anand, Gujrat, Extension Activity: 21 th April 1989 to continue Assistant Professor Teaching and Research: To teach Applied Maths and Biomathematics at under graduate and post graduate level; in the faculties of Agriculture including Agricultural Economics, Agricultural Meteorology and Statistics Dairy Technology and Research in Agricultural Meteorology. (cont…) Extension Activity: i) Join with Field Training and Educational Tour of Final Year Students. ii) Acted as a Assistant Rector of the Hostel of Under Graduate Girls of Agriculture Faculty since 1st Sep1997 to July 2006. And 27th May 2007 to September 2007. iv-(B) Details of work at B A College of Agriculture, Anand Agricultural University, Anand. Target set Target achieved To teach in U G classes in Agriculture and Dairy Technology Taught the Courses Bio-Mathematics 101, Bio-Mathematics 102 and Applied Mathematics-111 at Dairy Technology. Application of Integration and Differentiation. We use Linear and differential equations to find growth rate of a plant or Bacteria. We find maximum yield from maxima and minima of a function. To teach in P G classes of the related faculties of Agriculture and Dairy Engineering Fourier Series, Vector Analysis, Matrix & Determination, Probability & Distribution, Taught the Markov chain Model for prediction of Wet and Dry days with conditional probabilities and Harmonic analysis. To do departmental research work in Meteorology Developed the William & Logan model for Anand, Double Fourier Series and ANN is also applied and results were compared to Calculate the Hourly Air temperatures from the Max-Min Air temperatures by Mathematical model, DFS and Artificial Neural Networks (ANN). Used Fourier series for one variable and two variables and new technique ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK to Predict the Soil temperatures and Annual Rainfall. Applied Harmonic Analysis for counting Variability in the soil data at different depths. Used Incomplete Gamma distribution and ANN to Rainfall probability Analysis and Predicted weekly rainfall with probability. Did the Extreme Value Rainfall Probability analysis of the Gujarat, state of India (Agriculture Zone wise). Here Artificial Neural Network (ANN) is also used. Sr.No Title Of the Course Duration Name of the organizing Institute i Attended one day Seminar on “Good Agricultural Practices. 17th March 2008 (One day) Gujarat Association for Agricultural Sciences ii Presented a poster on my research work in International Symposium on “Agro meteorology and Food Security”. 18-21st February 2008 (4 days) Central research Center of Dry land Agriculture, Hyderabad, A. P. (cont..) iii Participated in the \\\"Third Indo-US Lecture series on Discrete Mathematical Chemistry with special reference to Bioinformatics and Chemo informatics\\\" and presented a poster of my recent research work. 7 -10, January 2008 (4 days) Department of Bioinformatics, Bharathidasan University Tiruchirappalli. Tamilnadu iv. Participated and presented two research papers and chair the session in the fifth international conference on Dynamic Systems and Applications May 30 - June 2, 2007 (4 days) Atlanta, U.S.A. v Seminar (Sammelan) on Climate Change and Global Warming 30-31 January 2008 Gujarat Vidyapith, Ahmedabad vi Participated in National Conference on Impacts of Climate Change with Particular Reference to Agriculture. 22-24 August, 2007 (3 days) Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore. Tamilnadu vii International Workshop on “Monsoon Climate Variability and Change, and Their Impacts on Water, Food, and Health in Western India” 5-7th Feb 2007 (3 days) Nirma University of Science and Technology in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. viii One Day Seminar on “Impact of Mathematics on Live Industrial Problems.” 19th August 2006 (1 day) Civil and Structural engineering Department of G H Patel College of Engineering and Technology, Vallabh Vidyanagar Gujarat. ix Monsoon -2005 Ancient and Modern techniques 20-21 June 2005 Anand Agricultural university, Anand (Cont…) x International Work Shop Indo-Uk Study Group Meeting on Industrial Problems. 20-24 March 2006 ( 5 days) Department of Applied Mathematics, Faculty of Technology, M S University of Baroda, Vadodara. xi 13th Winter school on “Remote Sensing Especially Emphasize on Drought Management”. 23 March to 16th April 2005 (25 Days) Division of Agriculture Physics, IARI, New Delhi xii 19th Gujarat Science Congress on Recent Advances in science & Technology& Technology Presented a Research paper on “The Rainfall Prediction By Multivariable Fourier series.” 19th February 2005 (1 day) Sardar Patel University, Vallabh Vidyanagar xiii Short Course “System Approach for Climatic Risk Management in Agriculture”. 30 August to 8 September 2004 (10 Days) Tamilnadu AgriculturalUni. Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu iv Workshop on “On Exploring MATLAB For Scientific Computation And Engineering Analysis”. 8-11 July 2004 (4 Days) A D I T, New Vallabh Vidya Nagar, Anand, Gujrat. (Cont…) xv National seminar held at during October. The topic of the seminar is \\\"Agro meteorology in New Millennium-Prospective and Challenges\\\" October 29,30 and 31, 2003 Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, xvi One day Seminar Imparting Quality Education in Agriculture. 23 February , 2003 (1 days) B A College of Agriculture, Gujarat Agricultural University, Anand Gujarat. xvii Refresher Course In Mathematics 29th April-18th May 2002 (108 Hours) Department of Mathematics, Sardar Patel university, Vallabh Vidhya Nagar. xviii National Seminar on \\\"Agro meteorological Research for Sustainable Agricultural Production\\\" was organized by the Association of Agro meteorologists 27-28 September 2001 (2 days) Gujarat Agricultural University, Anand Campus, Anand, xix Orientation Programme 14th May to 6th June 2001 (144 Hours) Academic Staff college, Gujarat University, Ahemdabad xx Refresher Course in Mathematics 24th April to 11th May 2001 (108 Hours) Academic Staff college, Gujarat University, Ahemdabad. xxi Short period Training Use of Computers in Agriculture 7 to 11 August , 2000.(5 days) B A College of Agriculture, Gujarat Agricultural University, Anand xxii Short period Training Computer Applications in Mathematics teaching 4-18 Jan, 2000 (15 Days) Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, West Bengal. xxiii National workshop on “ Land And Surface Process experiments(LASPEX-97) . Presented a research paper entitled “Estimation of Soil and air temperature at LASPEX sites by harmonic analysis.” 18-20 November, 1999 Gujarat Agricultural University, Anand xxiv Intensive Courses on the Use of Statistical Methods in weather Analysis & Prediction. 2-21 Dec, 1996 (21 Days) Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi. xxv International Conference on Water & Energy 2001 9-12 Oct 1995. (4 days) Central Board of Irrigation and Power, New Delhi. (Cont…) xxvi Refresher Course in Agricultural Statistics. 1st June to 22nd Aug 1992 (Three Months) Indian Agricultural Statistical Research Institute New Delhi. xxvii Winter School on Stochastic Models in Management Sciences. Feb 3-14, 1991 (12 Days) Indian Institute Management, Ahmedabad, Gujarat. xxviii National seminar on Agro Meteorological Services for farmers Nov 10-13 2008 (4 days) Anand Agricultural University Anand, Gujarat 1 Certificate of Best Poster Presentation Award by Association of Agro meteorologists for the research paper entitled “ Prediction of weekly soil temperatures by artificial neural networks and harmonic analysis ” in.” National seminar on Agro Meteorological Services for farmers From 10- 13st November 2008. At Anand Agricultural University, Anand ,Gujarat India. 2 Certificate of Special Best Poster Presentation Award by Association of Agro meteorologists for the research paper entitled “Applications of Double variable Fourier series and Artificial Neural Network in annual rainfall prediction.” in an International symposium on Agro meteorology and Food Security.” From 18- 21st February 2008. At Central research Institute of Dry land Agriculture (CRIDA), Hyderabad, A. P, India. 3. Certificate of Merit award by Central Board of Irrigation & Power in International Conference.\\\" Water & Energy 2001 9-12 Oct 1995for the research paper entitled “Extreme Value Analysis of Rainfall of the Krishna- Godavari Basin\\\" Andhra Pradesh, India. (Cont…) i Kulshrestha, M. S., George, R. K. and Shekh, A. M.: “Application of artificial neural networks to predict the probability of extreme rainfall and comparison with the probability by Fisher Tippet Type-II distributions.” Selected for the publication in the recent volume of Int. Jr. of Applied Mathematics and Computations (IJAMC). ii Kulshrestha, M. S. and George, R. K..: “Prediction of Annual Rainfall By Double Fourier Series and Artificial Neural Network.” Int. Jr of Neural, Parallel and Scientific computations vol.15, no.4, December (2007). iii Kulshrestha, M. S., George, R. K. and Shekh, A. M.: “Estimation Of Hourly Air Temperatures By William And Logan Model, Double Fourier Series And Artificial Neural Networks.” will be publishing in the proceedings of International conference at Atlanta on Dynamic Systems and Applications, (2007). meteorology. iv Kulshrestha, M. S., George, R. K. and Shekh, A. M. : \\\"Prediction of the weekly Rainfall probabilities by Gamma distribution and Artificial Neural Networks Jr of Agro Meteorology, vol. 9,no. 2 December 2007 v Kulshrestha, M. S., George, R. K. and Shekh, A. M. : \\\"Prediction of the rainfall of the Anand station of Gujarat using Artificial Neural Network\\\"Jr. of Agro Meteorology. Special Issue, 6, pp 233-236, (2004). …) vi George, R. K., Kulshrestha, M. S., Shekh, A. M. and Jaita, H.: \\\"Prediction of Soil Temperatures Using Artificial Neural Networks.\\\" Jr. of Agro Meteorology.3 1&2:, pp 169-173, (2001). vii Kulshrestha M. S. and Shekh, A. M. : “Estimation of Soil temperature by Harmonic Ananlysis” Mausam 52, 2, pp 379-384, ( 2001). viii Kulshrestha, M. S., Shekh, A. M. and Parmar, R. S.: “Rainfall probability Analysis using Incomplete Gamma Distribution” Presented and Published in Proceeding of “International Conference on Managing Natural Resources for Sustainable Agricultural Production in the 21st Century”. Held at IARI, New Delhi 14-18. Volume –II pp. 600-603, (2000). ix Kulshrestha, M. S., Shekh, A. M. and Parmar, R. S.: \\\"Extreme Value Rainfall Ananlysis of Gujarat State.” INTROPMET-97,\\\'Asian monsoon& Pollution over the monsoon environment held on Dec. 2-5, 1997, IIT, New Delhi, India. Vayu Mandal ,pp 45-48, (1999). (cont..) x Shekh, A. M. Kulshrestha, M. S. Parmar, R. S., Patel, H. R.: “Relationship of Mean Temperatures with Screen Temperatures” \\\"Mausam 49, 1, pp 21-26, (1998). xi Kulshrestha, M. S., Shekh, A. M., Bapuji Rao B and Upadhyay, U. G.:\\\" Extreme Value Ananlysis of Rainfall of Krishna Godavari Basin, Andhra Pradesh.\\\" Water & Energy 2001 9-12 Oct 1995. Awarded Merit by Central Board of Irrigation and Power. pp 96-101, (1995). _X_X-X-_X-X_