Sub Lt. (Dr.). Pratheesh P. Gopinath

Educational Qualifications:

MSc in Agricultural Statistics (ICAR-IASRI, New Delhi)

PhD in Agricultural Statistics (ICAR-IASRI, New Delhi)

Projects handled

• Developing, testing and assessing scalability of Statistical Package for data analysis in Agricultural research under observational trial of RARS
• Potential Impact of climate change and flood on Kerala soils. AEU wise mitigation and adaptive strategies - co PI
• Identification of molecular markers and QTL linked to nutritional and functional properties of speciality land races of rice from Kerala using association genetic analysis- co PI

Technology developed

• Developed Web application GRAPES (General R based Analysis Platform Empowered by Statistics) for online data analysis (over 30k users)(www.kaugrapes.com)
• Developed open-source R package grapesAgri1 with 13K downloads. https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/grapesAgri1
• Developed www.grapesorchard.com. Online repository for opensource R packages developed.

Other posts held

• Former Assistant Professor of Statistics, Nehru Arts and Science College, Kanhangad, Kasaragod, Kerala (affl. Kannur University)
• Member of Technical Advisory Panel of Agriculture division, Kerala State Planning Board
• Technical and Statistical assistance for modelling and analyzing COVID-19 management in the State of Kerala, GoK

Administrative and institutional building activities

• Associate NCC officer of NCC unit (Naval)
• Head of the Department (i/c) Department of Physical Education
• Officer in charge of Trainees Hostel and Guest house
• IT nodal officer, College of Agriculture, Vellayani
• Campus officer, College of Agriculture, Vellayani
• Technical cell co-convenor
• Webmaster of College of Agriculture, Vellayani
• Social media champion of the institute (Ministry of Human Resource Development )
• Maintainer of University Facebook page
• Facilitator and mentor K-DISC (YIP) Young Innovators Programme
• Custodian and maintainer of smart classroom
• Maintainer and in charge of KAU-Moodle handle for online education of the institute
• Master trainer KAU AUMS

Google Scholar : https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=kfyS0-0AAAAJ&hl=en  

KAU Email ID: pratheesh.pg@kau.in