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CURRICULUM VITAE

Prof . Iyyanki. V. MURALI KRISNA, Director, IST, JNTU, Hyderabad 8, Lakshmi Nagar, Mehdipatnam Ring Road,, PVN Rao Express Highway to Shamshabad Airport, , HYDERABAD 500028. AP. India. ® +91-(040) - 2352 0000/6458 9624 Mobile-984804 9624 91-(040)– 23156128 /23058729 : iyyanki@icorg.org and ivm@ieee.org

•	Ph.D. from INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE, Bangalore 1977
•	Ph.D. from INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE, Bangalore 1977
•	Lead Auditor Course– Quality Management Systems
•	(IRCA QMS 2000 Auditor Certification Scheme Nigel Bauer, UK ) – QMS Based on ISO 9001
•	Lead Auditor Course EMS Advanced Environmental Management Systems
•	(QCI – EMS Certification Based on ISO 14001:2004)

Field of Specialization/ Current Research Activity and Interest

EIA / Thematic Mapping and Spatial Information Technology	Satellite Metereology
Environmental Information, Quality and Management systems.	Soft computing technologies
Climate Change and CDM and Land Use dynamics and Carbon Sequestration	Cloud seeding technologies
Transportation Management and Telematics	Pervasive computing

•	CSIR Research Fellow-Indian Institute of Science– Bangalore 1974-77
•	Lecturer , IIT Madras - 1977-79 – (2 years)
•	Scientist, Dept of Space, GOVERNMENT OF INDIA- (8 years)
•	Guest Scientist at DFVLR (German Space Research Institute)
•	Professor and Head Centre for Spatial Information Technology, 1990-2005 (15 years)
•	Director ( Research and Development) 2005-2007 – (2 years and 3 months )
•	Principal Investigator & Project Director – AP Cloud Seeding Project 2006 and 2007, Govt of AP.& Investigator Cloud Seeding Project 05

CURRENT POSITION at JNT University , Kukatpally, Hyderabad 500085 AP, India

•	DIRECTOR, INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Autonomous), 2008
•	Head, Centre for Atmospheric Sciences and Weather Modification Technologies JNTU, Hyderabad – 2006 onwards.
•	Nodal Officer JNTU Examinations Unit Nodal Centre V – 2005 onwards

Fellow of Institution of Engineers ( India )	Fellow of Institution of Surveyors
Fellow of AP Academy of Sciences	Member Weather Modification association
Fellow of Bhoovigyan Vikas Foundation,	Fellow of Indian Geophysical Union
Adjunct Professor, Bharatidasan University , Tiruchirapalli, Tamil Nadu	Best Teacher Award from Govt of AP, India in September 2005
Bhoovikas Samman Award from Bhoovikas Vigyan Foundation, New Delhi , 2005	Visiting Professor at Chiba Univ. under Japan Centers of Excellence Progm 1999- 2000
GIS Education and Out Reach Award, Emergency Management Research Institute (EMRI) Feb 2008.	Visiting Professor at Jackson State Univ, Mississippi , USA-July 2004

SPECIFIC IMPORTANT CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES

1 . Principal Investigator of more than 36 Sponsored Research & Consultancy Projects Related to following

EIA of Irrigation Projects	Natural Resources /Drought Management
GPS and Disaster management	Spatial Information Technology
Urban Infrastructure management	Climate Change & Cloud Seeding Technologies'.

2 . Research Guidance to about 160 scholars & PG students - As on April 2008 Guided / Co-Guided 22 PhDs and 116 M Tech / MCA/M Sc / MS on various Interdisciplinary topics in the Following Faculties

Faculty of Spatial Information Technology	Faulty of Environmental Science and Technology
Faculties of ECE	Faculty of Civil Engg and Faculty of Water Resources
Faculty of Computer Sciece and Technology	Faculty of Management Studies

3 . Author of Book on Climate change and Weather Modification Technologies 2008 and Contributed Chapters on various Topics to Global Data Base Design- ISPRS Publication Edited by Ryutaro Tateishi, University of Chiba , Japan and Various other publications

4 . Guest Scientist at DLR- German Space Research Institute, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, GKSS Research Centre, Geesthacht, Germany and Summer School Faculty in University of Dundee, Scotland, UK

5 . Editor in Chief– i) International Journal- Technology Spectrum 2007 ii) JNTU Forum News Letter, 2006 iii) Founder Editor of Geospatial Today Magazine 2002

6 . Key note speaker / Invited speaker/ Special lectures

IWMI – GIS Symposium – Colombo , Sri Lanka and Peredenya University Sri Lanka , February 2008	Climate Change & Weather modification-Suri Balakrishna Memorial Lecture at AP Academy Sciences, Feb 2008;
Australian Urban Regional Information Systems Association, AURISA 2001 , Australia	Environmental Conflicts, Natural Resources Mgmt, Space Laws – Administrative Staff College of India , 2007 & 2008.
Geospatial Technology, Air Pollution Monitoring at Engineering Staff College of India	Environmental Ethics and Philosophy- State Pollution Control Board, November 2007
Cloud Seeding Technologies at Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore	Cloud Seeding Technologies at UP Council of Science and Technology, Lucknow ,
International Symposium on Recent Advances in Environmental Health Informatics-Jackson , USA Sept 2007	University of Dundee , Dundee , Scotland , UK Map Middle East Conference, Dubai , April 2005;
International Symposium on Recent Advances in Environmental Health Informatics- Jackson, Sept 2004,	Central Institute of Rural electrification and National Institute of Rural development Training programs
Weather Modification Association Workshop April 2007	GSDI International conference- 2003;
National Conferences and Short term courses on Disaster Management, Climate Change, Weather Informatics, EIA and EMP, Environmental Informatics, IT, RS, GPS, GIS, Digital Image Processing, Data Mining, Satellite Meteorology,

7 . Expert Committee member

All India Council for Technical Education	Ministry of Human resources Development
University Grants Commission	Technology Development Board of Dept of S&T, -
Research Advisory Board - NIRD- Govt of India	AP Central and Eastern Power Distribution Co
AP State Police/ Forest / Departments,	Survey Settlement and Land Records Dept
Technical Evaluation Committee – World Bank Funded AP Cyclone Hazard mitigation project,	Member Board of Studies –i) UN center- UN CESSTAP, ii) BITS Ranchi, iii) Maulana Azad Central University,
Member. NNRMS Technical Committee, MOEF	ISRO and ICAR , Government of India

8 . Established / Developed

• Centre for Spatial information Technology

• Centre for Atmospheric Sciences and Weather Modification Technologies at JNT University

9 . Designed and implemented post graduate courses on i) Satellite Meteorology and Weather informatics ii) Spatial Information technology iii) Geoinformatics and Surveying Technology

10 . Initiated and implemented MOUs with i) Survey of India in 1992 ii) Chiba University - Japan, 2000 iii) Jackson state University, Jackson –USA and iii) Electronics Corporation of India, for advancement of research and education in the area of Disaster Management, Spatial Information Technology and Weather informatics

11 . Organized Workshops, Conferences and Conceived and implemented ICORG series – and Organized Five International Conferences during 1992, 94, 97, 2001 and 06 and Several Workshops and Training programs. Organized International Workshop on Weather Modification Technologies – Hyderabad in 2007.

12 . Experienced as A Research Worker, Academician. Administrator and Project Designer and implementer.