Design of Experiments- Scientific Staff

Head (A) & Professor (Ag.Stat)

Room No. 401A

Official E-mail:         Seema.jaggi@icar.gov.in
Phone (O).:                25847284

Research interests:               

  • Construction of designs for different experimental situations (agroforestry experiments, experiments for making tests versus controls comparisons, designs in the presence of neighbour effects, designs for spatially correlated observations, repeated measurements designs, factorial experiments, response surface designs, row-column designs)
  • Studying robustness and optimal properties of the designs
  • Development of analytical techniques for the designs
  • Development of web solutions for the designs
  • Application of different experimental designs
  • Statistical Computing

Dr. Seema Jaggi

Important Projects

Ongoing

S. No. Title of the project Project team Duration Funding agency
1. Minimal Response Surface Designs for Resource Optimization in Agricultural Experiments Eldho Varghese, Arpan Bhowmik, Seema Jagg and Cini Varghese Sept. 4, 2014 to Sept. 3, 2017 Institute
2. Some Investigations on Trend Resistant Row-Column Designs Arpan Bhowmik, Seema Jaggi, Eldho Varghese and Sunil Kumar Yadav Sept. 24, 2015 to March 31, 2018 Institute
3. Generalized Row-Column Designs for Crop and Animal Experiments Anindita Datta, Md. Harun, Seema Jaggi and Cini Varghese March 31, 2017 to March 30, 2020 Institute
4. Designs Involving Three-way and Four-way Genetic Crosses for Crop and Animal Breeding Programmes Md. Harun, Anindita Datta, Cini Varghese  and Seema Jaggi March 9, 2017 to March 8, 2020 Institute

 

Completed

S. No. Title of the project Project team Duration Funding agency
1. A-optimality of block designs for comparing two disjoint sets of treatments. Seema Jaggi, V.K. Gupta July 1, 1993 to March 31, 1996 Institute
2. Study of designs for two or more sets of treatments applied at different periods of experimentation. Seema Jaggi, V.K. Gupta April 1, 1996 to Sept.30, 1998 AP Cess Fund ICAR
3. Yardsticks of additional production from the combined application of inputs. C.H.Rao, Seema Jaggi, G.L. Khurana April 1, 1996 to March 31, 1998 Institute
4. Design and analysis of agroforestry experiments. D.P. Handa, Seema Jaggi, A.S. Gill, V.K. Sharma March 1, 2000 to Aug. 31, 2002 Institute
5. Some investigations on design and analysis of agroforestry experiments. Seema Jaggi, A.S. Gill, V.K. Sharma, Cini Varghese Sept.1, 2004 to April 30, 2007 Institute
6. Three associate class partially balanced incomplete block designs and their application to partial diallel crosses. Cini Varghese, V.K. Sharma, Seema Jaggi Sept.1, 2000 to Feb. 16, 2004 Institute
7. Statistical study on competition effects among neighbouring units in field experiments. Seema Jaggi, V.K. Gupta Sept. 1, 2002 to Aug. 31, 2004 AP Cess Fund ICAR
8. Design and analysis of experiments for spatially correlated observations. Seema Jaggi, V.K. Gupta, Rajender Parsad Sept. 27, 2004 to March 26, 2008 DST
9. Assessment of spatial and temporal variation of soil microbial diversity in rice-wheat cropping system.   Anita Chaudhary, Rajeev Kaushik, R. Choudhary, Naveen Kalra, Himanshu Pathak, Seema Jaggi June 1, 2001 to Sept. 30, 2004 NATP
10. Web solutions for Partially Balanced Incomplete Block (PBIB) Designs. Anu Sharma, Cini Varghese, Seema Jaggi Oct.1,  2007 to March 31, 2010 Institute
11. Experimental designs for agricultural experiments involving sequences of treatments. Cini Varghese, Seema Jaggi Jan.1, 2008 to Dec. 31, 2009 AP Cess Fund ICAR
12. Knowledge data warehouse for agricultural research. Anil Rai, P.K. Malhotra, Seema Jaggi, K.K. Chaturvedi, Prachi Misra, Md. Samir Farooqui Oct.1, 2007 to March 31, 2010 Institute
13. Impact assessment of Bt. cotton on microbial community structure and function. Anita Choudhry, IARI, Seema Jaggi April 1, 2006 to March 31, 2010 DBT
14. eLearning solutions for agricultural education. Shashi Dahiya, R.C Goyal, K.K Chaturvedi, Anshu Dixit, Seema Jaggi, Cini Varghese Aug.1, 2008 to Jan. 31, 2010 Institute
15. Strengthening Statistical Computing under NARS. V.K. Bhatia, Consortium Leader; Rajender Parsad, CPI; P.K. Malhotra, V.K. Gupta,V.K. Mahajan, Seema Jaggi, Samir Farooqui, Ramasubramaniam V., L.M. Bhar, AK Paul,  N. Shivramane April 20, 2009 to April 19, 2012 NAIP
16. Generalized Row-Column Designs for Agricultural Experiments. Cini Varghese and Seema Jaggi Jan.15, 2010 to April 14, 2011 Institute
17. Experimental Designs in the Presence of Indirect Effects of Treatments. Seema Jaggi, Cini Varghese, Anu Sharma and Eldho Varghese Oct.1, 2011 to Sept. 30, 2015 DST
18. Establishment of National Agricultural Bioinformatics Grid (NABG) in ICAR. Anil Rai, P K Malhotra, K K Chaturvedi, S.B. Lal, Anu Sharma, Samir Farooqi, Sudeep, Hukum Chandra, A.R. Rao, Seema Jaggi April 1, 2010 to March 31, 2012 NAIP
19. Response Surface Methodology Incorporating Neighbour Effects. Eldho Varghese and Seema Jaggi Sept. 1, 2010 to Aug. 31, 2011 Institute
20. Experimental Designs for Polycross Trials Cini Varghese, Seema Jaggi and Eldho Varghese Feb.4, 2013 to July 31, 2014 Institute
21. Factorial Experiments with Minimum Level Changes in Run Sequences. Arpan Bhowmik, Eldho Varghese, Cini Varghese and Seema Jaggi Aug.16, 2013 to Feb. 15, 2016 Institute

 

Awards and Honours

  • INSA (Indian National Science Academy) Teacher Award-2015 in the Anniversary General Meeting of the Academy held during December 28-30, 2015 at Indian Institute of Science, Education and Research (IISER), Bhopal.
  • Bharat Ratna Dr. C. Subramaniam Award for Outstanding Teachers-2013 of ICAR for excellent teaching in the field of Social Sciences during the 86th ICAR Foundation Day and Award Ceremony held at NASC Complex on July 29, 2014.
  • P.V. Sukhatme Gold Medal Award for the year 2012 for significant contribution in Agricultural Statistics from Indian Society of Agricultural Statistics during its 66th Annual Conference held at ICAR-IASRI from December 18-20, 2012 as International Conference on Statistics and Informatics in Agricultural Research.
  • Best Teacher Award 2002 of Indian Agricultural Research Institute, Deemed University for excellence in teaching in the discipline of Agricultural Statistics.
  • Indian Science Congress Association Best Poster Presentation Award on the paper Minimal Balanced Repeated Measurements Designs presented during the 89th session of the Indian Science Congress held at University of Lucknow, Lucknow in 2002.
  • Lal Bahadur Shastri Young Scientist Award of ICAR for the biennium 1999-2000 for the contributions in the discipline of Agricultural Statistics. The award carries a citation, cash prize and sanctioning of the research scheme entitled Statistical Study on Competition Effects among Neighbouring Units in Field Experiments funded by AP-Cess fund of ICAR.
  • ISAS Medal for Young Scientist for the year 1995 from Indian Society of Agricultural Statistics for the paper A-Efficient Block Designs with Unequal Block Sizes for Comparing Two Sets of Treatments during the 49th session of Indian Society of Agricultural Statistics held at Lucknow from February 22-23, 1996.
  • The following paper presented by the first author received the G.R. Seth Memorial Young Scientist Award in 69th Annual Conference of Indian Society of Agricultural Statistics at University of Kota, Kota, Rajasthan during December 14-16, 2015:
  • Arpan Bhowmik, Eldho Varghese, Seema Jaggi, and Cini Varghese (2015). Factorial experiments with minimum changes in run sequences.
  • The following paper presented (both as oral presentation and poster presentation) in International Conference on Statistics and Big Data Bioinformatics in Agricultural Research (70th Annual Conference of ISAS) by the first author at ICRISAT, Hyderabad during November 21-23, 2016 received as Second Best Paper Award:
  • Shwetank Lall, Seema Jaggi, Eldho Varghese, Cini Varghese and Arpan Bhowmik. On construction of D-optimal designs for logistic regression model.
  • The following paper presented (both as oral presentation and poster presentation) in International Conference on Statistics and Big Data Bioinformatics in Agricultural Research (70th Annual Conference of ISAS) by the first author at ICRISAT, Hyderabad during November 21-23, 2016 received as Third Best Paper Award:
  • Arfa Anjum, Seema Jaggi, Eldho Varghese, Shwetank Lall, Anil Rai, Arpan Bhowmik, C. Mishra and Sarika. Mixture distribution approach for identifying differentially expressed genes in microarray data of Arabidopsis thaliana.
  • First Prize in the Research Paper Poster Presentation in Hindi on the following paper held during Hindi Pakhwada 2013 in the Institute:
  • Third prize in the Research Paper Poster Presentation in Hindi on the following paper held during Hindi Chetnamas 2004 in the Institute:

Also received an appreciation certificate

  • Following research paper has received SP Dhall Distinguished Publication Award in Statistics – 2015from Society for Advancement of Human and Nature (SADHNA), Dr. YS Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry, Nauni HP:
  • Yogita Gharde, Anil Rai and Seema Jaggi (2013). Bayesian prediction in spatial small area models. Journal of Indian Society of Agricultural Statistics. 67(3), 355-362.

Important Publications

Articles (top 10)

  1. Jaggi Seema and Agarwal, K.N. (1995). Augmented partial diallel design for estimating combining ability of parents. Biometrical Journal, 37(7), 879-887.
  2. Jaggi Seema, Gupta, V.K. and Parsad, R. (1996). A-efficient block designs for comparing two disjoint sets of treatments. Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods, 25(5), 967-983.
  3. Jaggi Seema and Gupta, V.K. (1997). A-optimal block designs with unequal block sizes for comparing two disjoint sets of treatments. Sankhya B, 59(2), 164-180.
  4. Jaggi Seema, Varghese Cini and Gupta, V.K. (2007). Optimal circular block designs for neighbouring competition effects. Journal of Applied Statistics, 34(5), 577-584.
  5. Tomar, J. S. and Jaggi Seema (2007). Efficient neighbour balanced block designs for correlated observations. Metron, LXV(2), 229-238.
  6. Jaggi Seema, Varghese Cini, Varghese Eldho and Sharma, V.K. (2010). Generalized incomplete Trojan-type designs. Statistics and Probability Letters, 80, 706-710.
  7. Jaggi Seema, Sarika and Sharma, V.K. (2010). Response surface analysis incorporating neighbour effects from adjacent units. J. Agric. Sciences, 80(8), 719-723.
  8. Pateria, D. K., Jaggi Seema and Varghese Cini (2011). Universally optimal circular neighbour balanced block designs under mixed effects model. Utilitas Mathematica, 85, 33-43.
  9. Sarika, Jaggi Seema and Sharma, V.K. (2013). First order rotatable designs incorporating neighbour effects. ARS Combinatoria, 112, 145-159.
  10. Jaggi Seema, Varghese Cini, Varghese Eldho and Sharma Anu (2015). Web generation of experimental designs balanced for indirect effects of treatments (WEB-DBIE). Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 111, 62–68.

Books and Book Chapters

  1. Shukla, R. K., Singh, H.B. and Jaggi Seema (2001). Trends in oilseeds production and strategies to meet future challenges. In a book entitled Rapeseed mustard: A doorstep into the new millenium, 21-26. Mustard Research and Promotion Consortium (MRPC), New Delhi.
  2. Jaggi Seema (2006). Experimental designs and data analysis in agroforestry.  Edited Book: Production Technology and Management of Agroforestry, 185-196. Agrotech Publishing Academy, Udaipur
  3. Jaggi Seema and Prajneshu (2007). Sampling Distributions. Lesson for BA programme of University of Delhi available at University’s web-site (http://www.du.ac.in/course/ material/ug/ba/basicstat/index.html).
  4. Jaggi Seema and Prajneshu. Testing of Hypothesis. Lesson for BA programme of University of Delhi to be deployed in University’s web-site.
  5. Bhatia, V.K., Prajneshu, Parsad, R., Jaggi Seema, Rai, A. and Rao, A.R. (2008). Agricultural Statistics. Advances in Post-Graduate Research for Improving Agricultural Growth and Prosperity. 349-364, Post-Graduate School, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi.
  6. Jaggi Seema, Varghese Eldho and Bhowmik Arpan (2014). Statistical techniques for studying effect of climate change on crop production.In a book entitled Climate Change Effect on Crop Productivity, CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group, USA.
  7. Jaggi Seema, Varghese Cini, Varghese Eldho and Bhowmik Arpan. Statistical designs for forestry research (2015). In Statistics in Forestry: Methods and Applications (Eds. Girish Chandra, Raman Nautiyal, Hukum Chandra, Nilanjan Roychoudhury and Naseer Mohammad), Bonfring, pp. 13-24. (ISBN 978-93-84743-83-3).
  8. Jaggi Seema and Sud, U. C. (2017). Agricultural Statistics. Significant Research Achievements of Post Graduate Students (2007-2016). 548-577, Post-Graduate School, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi.

Principal Scientist

415, Training-cum-Administrative Block

Official E-mail:        rajender.parsad@icar.gov.in
Phone (O).:               011-25843573 extn-4122
Research interests:

  • Efficient Designs for single and multifactor Experiments;
  • Computer-aided search of optimal/efficient designs for various experimental settings;
  • Web Resources on Design of Experiments;
  • Statistical Analytical techniques for Farmer’s participatory Research Trials;
  • Application of efficient design of experiments in agricultural experiments;
  • Combinatorics in Sample Surveys;
  • Statistical Computing.

Dr. Rajender Parsad

Important projects:

Ongoing:
Sr. No. Title of the project Project team Duration Funding agency
1. ICAR Research Data Repository for Knowledge Management as KRISHI: Knowledge based Resource Information System Hub for Innovations in Agriculture: XII Plan Data Management Component of ICAR Headquarters. ICAR-IASRI, New Delhi: Rajender Parsad, A.K. Choubey, Mukesh Kumar, Anshu Bhardwaj, Susheel Sarkar, Arpan Bhowmik, Raju Kumar (till 04.06.2017), Vandita Kumari Choudhary (till August 2016) and Sukanta Dash (since 03.04.2017)

 

ICAR-NAARM, Hyderabad : A.Dhandapani

 

ICAR-NBSS&LUP, Nagpur : G.P. Obi Reddy,

Nirmal Kumar,

Sudipto Chattaraj

 

ICAR-IARI, New Delhi:

Vinay Kumar Seghal, Joydeep Mukerjee

 

ICAR-DKMA, New Delhi:

Mitali Ghosh Roy

 

ICAR-CMFRI,Kochi:

J. Jayasankar

 

ICAR-CRIDA, Hyderabad:

N.S. Raju

 24.07.2015-till date Data Management Component of ICAR Headquarters
2. A-optimal block designs for test versus control comparisons: An algorithmic Approach B.N. Mandal, Rajender Parsad, V.K. Gupta (till 16.03.2016) and Sukanta Dash 18.02.2015-17.02.2017)

 

 IASRI, New Delhi
3. On construction of orthogonal and nested orthogonal Latin hypercube designs. Sukanta Dash, Rajender Parsad, B.N. Mandal and Susheel Kumar Sarkar (16.11.2015-15.11.2018) IASRI, New Delhi
4. Incomplete split-plot designs: construction and analysis B.N. Mandal, Rajender Parsad and Sukanta Dash 16.08.2016-15.08.2019 SERB, DST Funded
Completed Projects
5. Some Statistical Studies Relating to Design and Analysis of Experiments involving Fixed Quantity of Inputs P.K.Batra, Rajender Parsad and O.P. Khanduri 01.07.1993- 31.12.1996 IASRI, New Delhi
6. Studies on Optimality of Block Designs for Making Test Treatments-Control Comparisons R.Srivastava, V.K. Gupta and Rajender Parsad 01.07.1993-31.12.1996 IASRI, New Delhi
7. Cataloguing and Construction of Variance Balanced Block Designs: Computer Algorithms for Construction Rajender Parsad, V.K. Gupta and O.P. Khanduri 01.02.1994-31.12.1998 IASRI, New Delhi
8. Development of Fatigue Score Card and Suitable Work Cycles on Camel (Collaboration with KVK, Rewari under the aegis of AICRP on Utilization of Animal Energy) M. Din, Jyotsana, P.K. Srivastava and Rajender Parsad 01.12.1998-31.03.2000 IASRI, New Delhi
9. Designs for Fitting Response Surfaces in Agricultural Experiments Rajender Parsad, R. Srivastava and P.K. Batra 01.02.1999-31.05.2001 ICAR AP-CESS Fund
10. A Diagnostic Study of Design and Analysis of Field Experiments Rajender Parsad, V.K. Gupta, P.K. Batra, R. Srivastava, Rajinder Kaur, Ajit Kaur and Prawin Arya 01.03.2000-31.07.2003 IASRI, New Delhi
11. Planning, Designing and Analysis of Experiments relating to AICRP on Soil Test Crop Response Correlation (Collaborative Project) Aloke Lahiri, V.K. Sharma, A. Subba Rao, M.R. Vats, D.K. Mehta, Rajender Parsad and Sanjay Srivastava 01.03.2000-31.07.2003 IASRI, New Delhi
12. Studies on Data Processing Techniques for Statistical Analysis of Large Field Variability in Hilly and Salt Affected Soil Regions V.K. Bhatia and Rajender Parsad 01.08.2000-31.07.2003 NATP: CGP
13. Energy Requirement in Agricultural Sector: A Linear Programming Approach (Collaboration with AICRP on Energy Requirement in Agricultural Sector) V.K. Gupta, Rajender Parsad, Dipankar De, Hukum Chandra, R.S. Singh 7.04.2000-31.07.2001 IASRI, New Delhi
14. Design and Analysis of On-Station and On-Farm Agricultural Research Experiments: A Revisit (Collaborative Project) A.K. Nigam, Rajender Parsad and V.K. Gupta 15.09.2001-14.12.2003 ICAR AP CESS Fund

 
15. Development of Statistical Package for Agricultural Research (Windows Version): SPAR 2.0 Sangeeta Ahuja, P.K. Malhotra, K.C. Gupta, V.K. Bhatia, Rajender Parsad and V.H. Gupta 1.6.2002-30.6.2004 IASRI, New Delhi
16. A Study on Trend Free Designs Krishan Lal, Rajender Parsad and V.K. Gupta 01.06.2003-17.02.2005 IASRI, New Delhi
17. Studies on Block Designs for Biological Assays R. Srivastava, Rajender Parsad and V.K. Gupta 01.03.2003-28.02.2005 ICAR-AP-CESS Fund
18. Outliers in Designed Experiments L.M.Bhar, Rajender Parsad and V.K. Gupta 01.08.2004-31.07.2007 ICAR-AP-CESS Fund
19. Study on Robustness of Block Designs for Biological Assays against Loss of Data Ravindra Srivastava, V.K. Gupta and Rajender Parsad 21.06.2007-29.01.2008 IASRI, New Delhi
20. Development of Web-enabled Statistical Software for Analysis of Data of AICRP on STCR Experiments. Y. Muralidharudu, Abhishek Rathore, A Subba Rao,  V.K. Gutpa, and Rajender Parsad March 2008- March, 2011 AICRP on STCR, IISS, Bhopal & IASRI, New Delhi
21. Design and Analysis of Experiments for Spatially Correlated Observations Seema Jaggi, V.K. Gupta and Rajender Parsad 27.09.2004- 31.09.2008 SERB, DST Funded
22. Experimental Designs for Quality Agricultural Research Rajender Parsad 27.01.2005-29.04.2009 ICAR National Fellow Scheme
23. Long term Manorial and Fertilizer Experiment on Potato Based Cropping Systems (Collaborative Project  with CPRS, Modipuram) CPRS, Modipuram: N.C. Upadhayay, O.P. Singh, A.K. Shukla,  M.A. Khan, B.P. Singh, D.B. Singh, V. Sunaina, CPRS, Modipuram, Nalini Rajan Kumar, Dinesh Kumar  CPRI, Shimla: N.C. Sood, P.M. Govindakrishnan, K.P. Chandran, PDCSR, Modipuram: S.S. Paul, Kamlesh Malik, I.A.S.R.I. New Delhi: Rajender Parsad 29.01.2007- 31.03.2009, (01.04.2004 initiated at CPRS Modipuram) IASRI, New Delhi
24. Planning, Designing and Analysis of Experiments Relating to AICRP on Soil Test Crop Response Correlation (Collaborative Project with AICRP on STCR) Aloke Lahiri, V.K. Sharma, A. Subba Rao, Y. Muralidharan, Rajender Parsad, M.R. Vats and Abhishek Rathore 01.03.2007-31.05.2010 ICAR-IASRI, New Delhi
25. Agricultural Field Experiments Information System P.K. Batra, O.P. Khanduri, D.K. Sehgal, Rajender Parsad and Sudeep 01.04.2007 – 31.03.2012 (association 08.08.2009-31.03.2011) ICAR-IASRI, New Delhi
26. Strengthening Statistical Computing in NARS 20/04/2009 – 18/07/2013 (Promoted to CIFE, Mumbai) 8. Dr. Sivaramane, N. Senior Scientist (Agricultural Economics) 20/04/2009 – 27/03/2012 (Promoted to NAARM, Hyderabad) IASRI, New Delhi: CL: V.K.Bhatia (till 28.02.2012) & U.C. Sud (01.03.2012-31.03.2014)  CPI: Rajender Parsad Co-PIs: V.K. Gupta (till June, 2010), P.K. Malhotra (till 31.03.2011), V.K. Mahajan (till 31.03.2011), Seema Jaggi, L.M. Bhar, A.K.  Paul, Sivaramane, N. (till 27.03.2012) Ramasubramanian, V. (till  18.07.2013), Mohammad Samir Farooqui, NDRI Karnal: R. Malhotra, D.K. Jain, A.K. Sharma, A.K. Chakravarty, A.K. Chauhan, A.P Ruhil and A.K. Singh, IVRI, Izatnagar: B. Singh, Shiv Prasad, T.A. Khan & Medram Verma, MPUAT, Udaipur: K.A. Varghese, Latika Sharma, B.R. Ranwah and H.K. jain,

DWM, Bhubabeswar: D.K. Panda and G. Kar, ICAR RC NEHR, Barapani: N. Uttam Singh, A.K. Tripathi, Anirudha Roy and S.B. Singh, UAS Bengaluru: M. Gopinath Rao, V. Manjunath, K.N. Krishna Murthy and H. Chandrasekhar, ICAR-NAARM, Hyderabad: M.N. Reddy (till 22.12.2011), A. Dhandapani; G.P. Reddy, Ananta Sarkar(till 30.10.2012), N. Sivaramane (27.03.2012-31.03.2014), P.D. Sreekanth (30.04.2011-31.03.2014); V. Sumanth Kumar (30.04.2011-28.02.2013) and S. Ravichandran (25.07.2013-26.03.2014), CIFE, Mumbai: S. Jahageerdar and R.S. Biradar (20.04.2009-31.05.2012)

 20.04.2009-31.03.2014 NAIP Component I
27. Analysis of Experimental Designs with t-Family of Error Distributions Krishan Lal, Rajender Parsad, V. K. Gupta and Lal Mohan Bhar 01.05.2010 – 31.03.2012 (association till 31.03.2011) ICAR-IASRI, New Delhi
28. Application of Optimization Techniques for Construction of Incomplete Block Designs B.N. Mandal, Rajender Parsad and V.K. Gupta 01.10.2011-31.03.2013 ICAR-IASRI, New Delhi
29. Row-column designs for factorial experiments in two rows Sukanta Dash, Rajender Parsad and V.K. Gupta 04.10.2012-31.03.2014 ICAR-IASRI, New Delhi
30. Information System for Planning and Analysis of Experiments of All India Co-ordinated Research Project on Vegetable Crops: IASRI, New Delhi: Rajender Parsad and Sukanta Dash; NAARM, Hyderabad: A. Dhandapani; AICRP on VC, IIVR, Varanasi: B. Singh, Major Singh (since 11.12.2015), P.M. Singh (October 2014-10.12.2015), Satyandra Singh (till 16.05.2015) and T. Choubey 01.02.2014 31.03.2017 AICRP on VC

Awards and honours:

  • NAAS Recognition Award 2015-16 for Significant Contributions to Social Sciences
  • National Award in Statistics for Young Statistician in honour of Prof. C.R. Rao for the biennium 2010-11 in recognition of outstanding contribution in the field of Statistics from Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, Govt. of India
  • Professor PV Sukhatme Gold Medal Award 2010 from Indian Society of Agricultural Statistics
  • ICAR National Fellow January 27, 2005-April 29, 2009.
  • Dr. D.N. Lal Memorial Lecture Award, 2005 from Indian Society of Agricultural Statistics.
  • IARI Best Teacher Award, 2002 for excellence in teaching in the discipline of Agricultural Statistics from P.G. School, IARI, New Delhi.
  • NAAS Young Scientist Award for Social Sciences  from National Academy of Agricultural Sciences for the biennium 1999-2000
  • Best paper award four times in the field of (i) Applied Statistics (1995-96); (ii) Design of Experiments (1997-98); (iii) Design of Experiments (2002-2003); and (iv) Design of Experiments (2010-2011)  from Indian Society of Agricultural Statistics.
  • Certificate of Merit under Young Scientists Award Programme, 1996, Indian Science Congress Association
  • Gold Medal in M.Sc. (Agricultural Statistics) from IARI, New Delhi.
  • Nehru Medal, 1988, the best student Award for M.Sc. (Agricultural Statistics) from IASRI, New Delhi.
  • Dr. V.V.R. Murthy Memorial Award, 1988 for the best student, M.Sc. (Agricultural Statistics) from IASRI, New Delhi.

FELLOWSHIPS

  • Elected Fellow of National Academy of Agricultural Sciences since January 01, 2011.
  • Fellow, Indian Society of Agricultural Statistics since January 01, 2014
  • Associate of National Academy of Agricultural Sciences since January 01, 2007 to December 31, 2010.
  • Elected Member of International Statistical Institute, Netherlands since November, 2008.

Other Recognitions

  • Invited Consultant Biometrician to International Centre for Agricultural Research in Dry Areas, Aleppo, Syria thrice (i) April 27-July 26, 2008; (ii) June 01-05, 2009 and (iii) November 08-19, 2019
  • Co-ordinating Editor of Journal of the Indian Society of Agricultural Statistics since 2010-2014;
  • Executive Editor, Statistics and Applications: Journal of the Society of Statistics, Computer and Applications since 2010;
  • Associate Editor, (i) Journal of Statistical Theory and Practice, published by Taylor and Francis since 2017; (ii) Agricultural Research, Journal of the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences since 2016; (iii)  Journal of the Indian Society of Agricultural Statistics during 2006-2009;
  • Member, Editorial Board(i) Journal of the Indian Society of Agricultural Statistics, 2006-2010; (ii) Statistics and Applications, 2002-2010; (ii) Annals of Agricultural Research, 2000-2008; (iii) PusaAgriscience, Journal of IARI Post Graduate School, 2005-2014; (iv) Journal of Wheat Research, the Journal of Society for Advancement of Wheat Research, 2014-till date;
  • Executive President, Society of Statistics, Computer and Applications, 2015-till date
  • Vice-President, Society of Statistics, Computer and Applications, 2014
  • Secretary, Society of Statistics, Computer and Applications for 2009.
  • Joint Secretary of (i) Indian Society of Agricultural Statistics, 2005-2013; (ii) Society of Statistics, Computer and Applications from 2005 to 2008 and (iii) Forum for Interdisciplinary Mathematics from 2005.

Important publications:

  • Articles (top 10)
  1. Gupta, V.K., Ramana, D.V.V. and Parsad, Rajender (1999). Weighted A-efficiency of block designs for making treatment-control and treatment-treatment comparisons. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 77, 301-319. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0378-3758(98)00187-6; http://krishi.icar.gov.in/jspui/handle/123456789/4490
  2. Parsad, Rajender, Gupta, V.K. and Prasad, N.S.G. (2003). Structurally incomplete row-column designs. Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods, 32(1), 239-261.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1081/STA-120017809; http://krishi.icar.gov.in/jspui/handle/123456789/4818

  1. Parsad, Rajender, Gupta, V.K. and Gupta, Sudhir (2005).  Optimal designs for experiments on two-line and four-lines crosses. Utilitas Mathematica, 68, 11-32.
  2. Parsad, Rajender, Gupta, V.K. and Srivastava, R. (2007). Designs for cropping systems research. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 137, 1687-1703.
  3. Parsad, Rajender, Kageyama, Sanpei and Gupta, V.K. (2007). Use of complementary property of block designs in PBIB designs. Ars Combinatoria, 85, 173-182.
  4. Mandal, B.N., Parsad, Rajender,  Gupta, V.K. and Sud,  U.C. (2009). A family of distance balanced sampling plans. Journal of Statistical Planning and inference, 139, 860-874.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jspi.2008.05.039 ; http://krishi.icar.gov.in/jspui/handle/123456789/5055

  1. Gupta, V.K., Singh, Poonam,  Kole, Basudev and Parsad, Rajender (2010). Addition of runs to a two-level supersaturated design. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 140(9), 2531-2535.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jspi.2010.03.026; http://krishi.icar.gov.in/jspui/handle/123456789/4501

  1. Marathi, Balram, Guleria, Smriti, Mohapatra, Trilochan, Parsad, Rajender, M. Nagarajan, K.K., Vinod, Atwal, Salwinder S., Prabhu, Vinod K., Singh,  Nagender K. and Singh, Ashok K.  (2012). QTL analysis of novel genomic regions associated with yield and yield related traits in new plant type based recombinant inbred lines of rice (Oryza sativa L.). BMC Plant Biology, 1-19. doi:10.1186/1471-2229-12-137. http://krishi.icar.gov.in/jspui/handle/123456789/777
  2. Ladha, J.K., Rao, A.N., Raman, Anitha K.A., Padre, Tirol,  Dobermann, A.,  Gathala, M., Kumar, V.,  Sharawat, Y.S., Sharma, S., Piepho, H.P.,   Alam, M.M.,  Liak, R., Rajendran, R.,  Reddy, C. Kesava,  Parsad, Rajender,  Sharma, P.C., Singh, S.S., Saha,  A. and  Noor, S. (2016). Agronomic improvements can make future cereal systems in South Asia far more productive and result in a lower environmental footprint. Global Change Biology, 22(3), 1054-1074. 11/2015; DOI:10.1111/gcb.13143. (http://krishi.icar.gov.in/jspui/handle/123456789/3604)
  3. Mandal, B.N., Dash, Sukanta, Parui, Shyamsundar and Parsad,  Rajender (2016). Orthogonal Latin hypercube designs with special reference to four factors. Statistics and Probability Letters, 119, 181-185. http://krishi.icar.gov.in/jspui/handle/123456789/3610
  • Books
  1. Gupta, V.K., Mandal, N. and Parsad,  Rajender (2012). Combinatorics in Sample Surveys vis-a-vis Controlled Selection. LAP Lambert Academic Publishing GmbH & Co. KG, Verlag, Germany. pp 344 (ISBN: 978-3-8465-4358-0). https://www.lap-publishing.com/catalog/details/store/gb/book/978-3-8465-4358-0/combinatorics-in-sample-surveys-vis-a-vis-controlled-selection. http://krishi.icar.gov.in/jspui/handle/123456789/4826
  2. Gupta, V.K., Parsad, Rajender, Bhar,  Lalmohan and. Mandal,  N (2016). Statistical Analysis of Agricultural Experiments: Part I: Single Factor Experiments. ICAR-IASRI, New Delhi. 396 pages (ISBN No. 978-93-5265-8596).

http://krishi.icar.gov.in/jspui/handle/123456789/723

  • MONOGRAPHS
  1. Parsad, Rajender, Gupta, V.K., Batra, P.K., Satpati, S.K. and Biswas, P. (2007). a-designs. IASRI, New Delhi. A.S.R.I./M.-01/2007

Monograph reviews written by (i) Murari Singh appeared in Journal of Statistical Theory and Practice, 2009, 3(2), 535-536;  (ii) Kishore Sinha appeared in Journal of Indian Society of Agricultural Statistics, 2009, 63(1), 109 and (iii) Indexed in Mathematical Reviews of American Mathematical Society from USA and Zebntralblatt Math from Germany.

http://krishi.icar.gov.in/jspui/handle/123456789/4506

  1. Gupta, V.K., Dhandapani, A. and Parsad, Rajender (2007). Hadamard Matrices. IASRI, New Delhi. I.A.S.R.I./M.-02/2007

Monograph review written by Warren F. Kuhfeld appeared in Journal of Statistical Theory and Practice, 2008, 2(4), 713-714; reviews also appeared in MathSciNet and Zentralblatt MATH Database

  • Bulletins
  1. Gupta, V.K., Parsad, Rajender and Jaggi, Seema (2001). Division of Design of Experiments: 1990-2000.  IASRI, New Delhi. (Prepared it as a web publication and linked with Institute Site).
  2. Gupta, K., Lal, Krishan and Parsad, Rajender (2008). Experiments with Mixtures: A Bibliography. IASRI, New Delhi. I.A.S.R.I./T.B.-02/2008. Also available at http://www.iasri.res.in/design/mixture/mixture/Bibliography.htm
  3. Parsad, Rajender and Gupta, K. (2009). Design Resources Server. IASRI, New Delhi. I.A.S.R.I./T.B.-03/2009
  4. Sharma, N.K., Batra, K., Gangwar, B., Parsad, Rajender (2010). Fertilizer response ratios for different crops.  IASRI, New Delhi and PDFSR, Modipuram. IASRI/TB-01/2010.
  5. Parsad, Rajender and Dhandapani, (2012). Indian NARS Statistical Computing Portal. IASRI, New Delhi. IASRI/TB-01/2012.
  6. Parsad, Rajender, Dhandapani, A., Tomar, R.S. and Kumar, Sachin (2013). Quick Reference Guide for Installation, Maintenance and Trouble Shooting. IASRI, New Delhi. I.A.S.R.I./T.B.-01/2013
  7. Gupta, K., Parsad, Rajender and Mandal, B.N. (2015). Significance of Experimental Designs in Agricultural Research. ICAR-IASRI, New Delhi. I.A.S.R.I./T.B.-01/2015
  • Electronic Books
  1. Design and Analysis of Agricultural Experiments Compiled, Edited and Developed by Parsad, Rajender, Srivastava, and Gupta, V.K. This book is divided into 5 modules and contains 63 lectures described in 736 pages. http://www.iasri.res.in/design/Electronic-Book/index.htm
  2. Advances in Data Analytical Techniques Compiled, Edited and Developed by Parsad, Rajender, Gupta, K., Bhar, L.M. and Bhatia, V.K.. This E-book consists of chapters on 66 topics described in more than 920 pages. http://www.iasri.res.in/design/ebook/EBADAT/index.htm
  • Popular articles
  1. Parsad, Rajender and Srivastava, R. (1995). Current status in design of experiments.  Proceedings of XI National Conference of Agricultural Research Statisticians, 48-59.
  2. Parsad, Rajender, Gupta, V.K. and Jaggi, Seema (1998). Optimality aspects of experimental designs. Advances in Agricultural Statistics and Computer Applications: Souvenir for Golden Jubilee Celebrations of Independence, 106-117.
  3. Srivastava, R., Parsad, Rajender and Gupta, V.K. (1998) Robustness aspects of experimental designs. Advances in Agricultural Statistics and Computer Applications: Souvenir for Golden Jubilee Celebrations of Independence, 122-129.
  4. Parsad, Rajender, Gupta, V.K. and Srivastava, R., (2000). Experimental designs: current status. Discussion Papers and Proceedings of XII National Conference of Agricultural Research Statisticians, 80-100.
  5. Gupta, V.K., Sharma, S.D. and Parsad, Rajender (2000). Agricultural Statistics: 2000. Discussion Papers and Proceedings of XII National Conference of Agricultural Research Statisticians, 263-266.
  6. Batra, P.K., Parsad, Rajender and Sharma, V.K. (2000). Quality of experimental data. Discussion Papers and Proceedings of XII National Conference of Agricultural Research Statisticians, 289-292.
  7. Gupta, V.K. and Parsad, Rajender (2003). Current status of experimental design and challenges ahead. Proceedings of XIII National Conference of Agricultural Research Statisticians, 55-73.
  8. Parsad, Rajender, Sharma, S.D. and Gupta, K. (2003). Agricultural statistics- problems for future research. Proceedings of XIII  National Conference of Agricultural Research Statisticians, 209-217.
  9. Dixit, Anshu, Parsad, Rajender and Malhotra, P.K. (2004). Applications of geoinformatics in precision farming: an overview. Proceedings of the National symposium on Geoinformatics Applications for Sustainable development held at New Delhi during February 17-19, 2004. A.K. Singh, U.K. Chopra, D.K. Das and R.N. Garg. 115-125.
  10. Kar, Abhijit, Chandra, Pitam and Parsad, Rajender (2004). Microwave assisted dehydration of banana (dwarf cavendish) slices: an alternative energy efficient method. Food and BioProcess Engineering Proceedings of the International Conference on Emerging Trends in Agricultural and Food Engineering held at IIT, Kharagpur during December 14-17, 2004. 44-51.
  11. Parsad, Rajender and Gupta, V.K. (2007). Statistical issues for experimentation in national agricultural research system. Proceedings of XIV National Conference of Agricultural Research Statisticians, 144-151.
  12. Gupta, V.K. and Parsad, Rajender (2007). Status of agricultural experimentation in national agricultural research system. Proceedings of XIV National Conference of Agricultural Research Statisticians, 58-68.
  13. Bhatia, V.K., Prajneshu, Parsad, Rajender, Jaggi, Seema, Rai, Anil and Rao, A.R. (2008). Agricultural Statistics: Advances in Post-Graduate Research for Improving Agricultural Growth and Prosperity. Eds. H.S. Gaur, K.C. Bansal, K. Vijayaragavan, R.D. Gautam, A.R. Sharma, S.K. Singh. Post Graduate School, IARI, New Delhi, 349-364.
  14. Gupta, V.K., Bhatia, V.K. and Parsad, Rajender (2009). Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute: A Profile. IASRI … an era of excellence, IASRI, New Delhi, 1-9
  15. Parsad, Rajender and Gupta, V.K. (2009). A Profile of Design of Experiments at IASRI. IASRI … an era of excellence, IASRI, New Delhi, 19-34.
  16. Parsad, Rajender, Jaggi, Seema, Gupta, V.K., Varghese, Cini and Lal, Krishan (2009). Glimpses of Basic Research in Design of Experiments at IASRI. IASRI … an era of excellence, IASRI, New Delhi, 35-54.
  17. Gupta, V.K. and Parsad, Rajender (2009). Block Designs for Cropping Systems Research. NAAS News. 8(2), 3-7.
  18. Parsad, Rajender and Gupta, V.K. (2010). Agricultural Statistics Research: Current Status and Future Challenges. Proceedings of XV National Conference of Agricultural Research Statisticians, 51-70.
  19. Gupta, V.K., Mandal, B.N. and Parsad, Rajender (2015). History of Statistics on Timeline. Available at http://sample.iasri.res.in/ssrs/History.pdf
  • PATENTS/COPYRIGHTS
  1. Statistical Package for Factorial Experiments (SPFE 1.0) on June 06, 2013. Copyright No.  SW-6674/2013.
  2. Statistical Package for Augmented Designs (SPAD) on June 06, 2013. Copyright No. SW-6675/2013.
  3. Statistical Package for Agricultural Research Data Analysis (SPAR 2.0) on June 06, 2013. Copyright No. SW-6677/2013.
  4. Design Resources Server on June 07, 2013. Copyright No. L-46452/2013.
  5. Monograph Hadamard Matrices on July 04, 2013. Copyright No. L-51175/2013.
  6. Monograph α-designs on July 24, 2013. Copyright No. L-51734/2013.
  7. Indian NARS Statistical Computing Portal (Software) on October 25, 2013. Copyright No. SW-7397/2013.
  8. Indian NARS Statistical Computing Portal (Manual) on October 25, 2013. Copyright No. L-55719/2013.
  9. AICSIP Information System on June 03, 2014. Copyright No. SW-7971/2014

Principal Scientist

Room No. 408

Official E-mail:      cini.varghese@icar.gov.in 

Phone (O).:               011-25847122 Extn. 4180
Research interests: Construction and Analysis of Designs for Various Agricultural Experimental Situations

Change over designs, Partially balanced incomplete block designs, Lattice designs, Designs for Plant/Animal breeding experiments, Neighbour balanced designs, Designs for agroforestry experiments, Designs for bioequivalence trials, Row-column designs, Generalized row-column designs, Designs for veterinary trials, Designing and analysis of ONFARM experiments, Designs involving minimum level change of factors, Designs for test vs. control comparisons, Designs for sensory trials, Designs for experiments in uneven land, Designs for multi-way elimination of heterogeneity

Web Designs and Software :Web generation and analysis of experimental designs, Catalogues of designs, Online macro for generation of experimental designs, Development of e-learning material in Agricultural Statistics.

Courses  Offered:  Taught the following courses in Agricultural Statistics to M.Sc./ Ph. D. students of P.G. School, IARI, New Delhi, as Faculty Member. Elementary Statistical Methods, Mathematical Methods, Mathematical Methods in Statistics, Econometric Methods, Design of Experiments-II, Advanced Designs for Single Factor Experiments

Cini Varghese

Research Guidance

As Chairperson, Advisory Committee

M.Sc.

Guided eight M.Sc. (Agricultural Statistics) students of P.G. School, IARI, New Delhi as Chairperson, Advisory Committee:

Ph.D.

One Ph.D. student took split Ph.D. programme to join ARS. Presently, guiding two Ph.D. students as Chairperson, Advisory Committee.

As Member, Advisory Committee

Guided a number of M.Sc. and Ph.D. students belonging to the following disciplines of P.G. School, IARI as Member, Advisory Committee:

Important projects:

Ongoing:

            Sr No. Title of the project Project team Duration Funding agency
1 Minimal Response Surface Designs for Resource Optimization in Agricultural Experiments

 

 Eldho Varghese, Arpan Bhowmik, Seema Jaggi and Cini Varghese 04.09.2014 – 03.09.2017

 
2 Designing and Analysis of ON FARM Research Experiments Planned for AICRP on IFS Cini Varghese, Sukanta Dash and Arpan Bhowmik 01.10.2017– 31.03.2020 Voluntary Centre, AICRP on IFS
3 Design Involving Three-way and Four-way Genetic Crosses for Crop and Animal Breeding Programmes Mohd Harun, Anindita Datta, Cini Varghese and Seema Jaggi 09.03.2017 – 08.03.2020
4 Generalised Row Column Designs for Crop and Animal Experiments Anindita  Datta, Mohd Harun,Cini Varghese and Seema Jaggi 31.03.2017 –  30.03.2020
5 Creating a fully characterized genetic resource pipeline for mustard improvement programme in India

 

 Lead Centere PI: Dr S.S. Banga, PAU, Ludhiana

IARI, New Delhi, DRMR, Bharatpur, GBPUAT, Pantnagar and ICAR-IASRI, New Delhi are the collaborating centres.

CCPI: A.R. Rao; CC-Project Associates: Cini Varghese and Prabina Kumar Meher

 01.01.2017 –  31.12.2019 National Agricultural Science Fund (NASF), ICAR

 

Completed:

Sr No. Title of the project Project team Duration Funding agency
1 Three-associate class partially balanced incomplete block designs and their application to partial diallel crosses Cini Varghese(P.I.), V.K.Sharma, Seema Jaggi and Anu Sharma 01.09.2000 – 16.02.2004
2 Statistical and algorithmic approach for improved estimation of treatment effects in repeated measurements designs Cini Varghese(P.I.), A.R. Rao, V.K.Gupta and Anu Sharma 18.05.2004 – 17.11.2007 Department of Science and Technology (DST), New Delhi

 
3 Some investigations on design and analysis of agroforestry experiments Seema Jaggi, V.K.Sharma, A.S. Gill and Cini Varghese 01.09.2004 – 31.08.2006
4 Experimental designs for agricultural research involving sequences of treatments Cini Varghese Seema Jaggi 01.01.2008 –  31.12.2009 AP Cess of ICAR
5 Web Solutions for Partially Balanced Incomplete Block (PBIB) Designs Anu Sharma, Cini Varghese and Seema Jaggi 01.10.2007 – 21.11.2010
6 E-learning Solutions for Agricultural Education Shashi Dahiya, R.C. Goyal, K.K.Chaturvedi, Anshu Bharadwaj, Seema Jaggi and Cini Varghese 01.08.2008 –

31-07-2010
7 Generalized row-column designs for agricultural experiments (PI) Cini Varghese and Seema Jaggi 15.01.2010 –

14-04-2011
8 Efficient designs for drug testing in veterinary trials (PI) Cini Varghese 01.06.2011 –

31-09-2012
9 Experimental designs in the presence of indirect effects of treatments Seema Jaggi, Cini Varghese, Anu Sharma and Eldho Varghese 01.10.2011 – 30.09.2014 Department of Science and Technology (DST), New Delhi
10 Mating-Environmental designs under two-way blocking setup Eldho Varghese and Cini Varghese 16.03.2012 – 30.09.2013
Experimental designs for polycross trials Cini Varghese, Seema Jaggi and Eldho Varghese 04.02.2013 – 31.07.2013
11 Factorial experiments with minimum level changes in run sequences Arpan Bhowmik, Eldho Varghese, Cini Varghese and Seema Jaggi 16.08.2013 – 15.02. 2016
12 Planning, Designing and Analysis of ON FARM Research Experiments Planned for AICRP on IFS Cini Varghese, Sukanta Dash and Arpan Bhowmik 01.10.2014– 31.03.2017 Voluntary Centre, AICRP on IFS

 

Awards and honours:

Received Lal Bahadur Shastri Young Scientist Award of Indian Council of Agricultural Research for the biennium 2005-2006 for outstanding contributions in the field of social sciences. The award carries a citation, cash prize and sanctioning of the research scheme entitled Experimental designs for agricultural research involving sequences of treatments funded by AP-Cess fund of ICAR.

 

Important publications (in following format):

Articles (Top 10)

  1. Varghese, Cini, Rao, A.R. and Sharma, V.K. (2002). Robustness of Williams Square change-over designs. Metrika. 55(3), 199-208.
  2. Sharma, V.K., Varghese, Cini and Jaggi, Seema. (2002). On optimality of change-over designs balanced for first and second order residual effects. Metron. LX(3-4), 155-164.
  3. Varghese, Cini, Sharma, V.K. and Rao, A.R. (2003). Optimality of circular cross-over designs balanced for first and second residuals. Utilitas Mathematica. 64, 221-228.
  4. Sharma, V.K., Jaggi, Seema and Varghese, Cini. (2003). Minimal balanced repeated measurements designs. Journal of Applied Statistics. 30(8), 867-872.
  5. Varghese, Cini and Sharma, V.K. (2004). A series of resolvable PBIB(3) designs with two replicates. Metrika. 60, 251-254.
  6. Tomar, J.S., Jaggi, Seema and Varghese, Cini. (2005). On totally balanced block designs for competition effects. Journal of Applied Statistics. 32(1), 87-97.
  7. Jaggi, Seema, Varghese, Cini and Gupta, V.K. (2007). Optimal circular block designs for neighbourig competition effects. Journal of Applied Statistics. 34(5), 577-584.
  8. Jaggi, Seema, Varghese, Cini, Varghese, Eldho and Sharma, V.K. (2010). Generalized incomplete Trojan-type designs. Statistics and Probability Letters, 80 (7-8), 706-710.
  9. Pateria, D.K., Jaggi, Seema and Varghese, Cini. (2011). Universally optimal circular neighborhood balanced block designs under mixed effects model. Utilitas Mathematica. 85, 33-43.
  10. Abeynayake, N.R., Jaggi, Seema and Varghese, Cini. (2011). Neighbour balanced bipartite block designs. Communications in Statistics-Theory and Methods, 40, 4041–4052.

Principal Scientist

Room No.: 110 (TAC Block)

Official E-mail:     Anil.Kumar@icar.gov.in

Phone (O).:            011-25847122 (EXT: 4108)
Research interests: Response surface Design, Factorial Experiments, Multivariate analysis, Survival analysis, Sequential analysis Reliability Theory combined analysis of Long term fertility experiments and farming systems models and Applied Statistics.

Dr. Anil Kumar

Important projects:

Ongoing:

Sr No. Title of the project Project team Duration Funding agency
1 Planning, designing and analysis of experiments planned on stations under All India Coordinated Research Project on Integrated Farming Systems PI: Anil Kumar, Co-PI: Susheel Kumar Sarkar and Md. Harun 01.04.2012 to 31.03.2017 AICRP on IFS, ICAR
2 Performance Assessments of Universities in Agriculture Education: A comparative analysis PI: Sukanta Dash, Co-PI: Anil Kumar 02.08.2017 to 31.03.2018 ICAR
3 Pilot study for developing state level estimates of crop area and production on the basis of sample sizes recommended by Professor Vaidyanathan Committee report UC Sud, Kaustava Aditya, Hukum Chandra, AK Gupta (till 31.07.2016), Ankur Biswas, Vandita Kumari, Raju Kumar,

Anshu Bhardwaj, Anil Kumar and Ajit

 

 16.02.2015- 31.08.2017 Directorate of Economics and

Statistics, Department of Agriculture and Cooperation, Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India, New Delhi.

 
4 Knowledge Based Resource Information System Hub for Innovations in Agriculture IASRI: Rajender Parsad, AK Choubey, Anil Kumar, Mukesh Kumar, Anshu Bharadwaj, Susheel Sarkar, Arpan

Bhowmik, Raju Kumar and Vandita Kumari Choudhary (on leave);

NAARM, Hyderabad: A Dhandapani;

NBSS&LUP, Nagpur: GP Obi Reddy, Nirmal Kumar and Sudipto Chattaraj; IARI, New Delhi: Vinay Kumar Seghal

and Joydeep Mukerjee; DKMA, New Delhi: Mitali Ghosh Roy; CMFRI, Kochi: J Jayasankar; CRIDA, Hyderabad:

NS Raju: 24.07.2015-31.03.2017

 

 2012-2017 ICAR

Completed:

PI/ 

Co-PI

 Title Year Amount

(in Rs.)

 Funding agency
Co-PI Planning, designing and analysis of experiments planned on stations under the project Directorate for cropping systems Research. 01.04.2002 to 31.03.2007 NA Institute
PI Combined Analysis of Experiments on Long Range Effect of Continuous Cropping and Manuring on Soil Fertility and Yield Stability.

 

 01.05.2004 to 30.04.2007 14.54 lakhs AP-Cess Fund Scheme of ICAR
Co-PI & PI  (Since March,2008) A statistical investigation on production, economic and energy potential of crop sequences in different agro-ecosystems. (Completed) 01.03. 2007 to 31.08.2008 NA Institute
Co-PI Impact of Micronutrients on Crop Productivity and Returns.

 

 01.11.2007 to 31.10.2009 NA Institute
Co-PI & PI  (Since March,2008) Planning, designing and analysis of experiments planned on stations under the project Directorate for cropping systems Research 01-04-2007 to 31.03.2012 NA Institute
Co-PI Sustainable livelihood through goat farming by disseminating the improved   goat production technologies. (Collaborative Project) 27.09.2010 NA CIRG, Makhdoom
Co-PI Impact of Improved Technologies and Emerging Market Conditions on Goat   Production System 27.09.2010 NA CIRG, Makhdoom
Co-PI Livelihood and Nutritional Security of Tribal Dominated Areas through Integrated Farming System & Technology Models -NAIP (Component-3) 14.09.2011 NA MPAUT, Udaipur

Awards and honours:

  1. Conferred with Young Professional Award-2011 of Society for Community Mobilization for Sustainable Development (MOBILIZATION) in recognition to professional achievement in mobilizing the community for livelihood security. This award is conferred by Honourable State Minister of Agriculture Sh. Harish Rawatji during its 5th National Seminar in collaboration with NDRI & BBNL held at NDRI, Karnal, India.
  2. Received Kadambini Devi Award-2013 on research paper “Vocal tract resonances as indexical cues in Karan Fries cows” by The Indian Society of Animal Production and Management in the national seminar & XX annual convention held at NDRI, Karnal during 28-30 January, 2013.
  3. Member, Editorial Board, International Journal of Agricultural and Statistical Sciences.
  4. Member, Editorial Board, Progressive Research in the Society for Scientific Development in Agriculture and Technology, Jhansi (U.P.), India
  5. Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Farming Systems Research and Development Association, Modipuram
  6. Member, Editorial Board, Society for Community Mobilization for Sustainable Development.
  7. Member, Editorial Board, International Journal of Essential Sciences.
  8. Received Best Poster presentation award (2nd Prize) for research paper entitled “Influence of Zinc-biotin supplementation on lameness in KF cows during periparturient period” (Pragya Bhadauria, SS Lathwal. YS Jadoun, Shiv Prasad and Anil Kumar) by The Indian Society of Animal Production and Management in the nation seminar & XX annual convention held at NDRI, Karnal during 28-30 January, 2013.
  9. Best paper presentation award on “Vocal tract resonances as indexical cues in Karan Fries cows” by The Indian Society of Animal Production and Management in the national seminar & XX annual convention held at NDRI, Karnal during 28-30 January, 2013.

Important publications:

            Articles (top 10)

    1. Anuapma; Singh, M.C.; Kumar, R.; Parmar, B.S. and Kumar, A. (2007). Performance of a new super absorbent polymer on seedling and post-planting growth and water use pattern of chrysanthemum grown under controlled environment. Acta Horticultura,742,43-49.  (NAAS Rating of Scientific Journals 2007 is 3)
    2. Kaur, Rajinder; Kumar, Anil and Farooqui, Samir (2005). Statistical assessment of different rice (Oryza sativa) varieties based crop sequences” Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences75 (8): 501-503.
    3. Sivaramane, N.; Kumar, Anil; Singh, D.R. and Arya, Prawin (2008). An economic  analysis of traditional and hi-tech rose (Rosa app.) cultivation. Journal of Ornamental Horticulture, 11(1): 21-26, January-March 2008 (Accepted in December 13, 2007)
    4. Panwar, Sanjeev and Kumar,Anil (2008). Trend analysis of flower production in India. Journal of Ornamental Horticulture, 11(1): 72-74, January-March 2008. (Accepted in November 10, 2007)
    5. Garg, R.N.; Kumar, Rajendra; Tomar, R.K.; Kumar, Anil and Gupta, V.H. (2003).   Study of correlation between physical properties of sandy loam soil and yield of wheat influenced by biogas slurry flyash.  Journal of Farming Systems Research and Development, 9(1), 144-145.
    6. Chandrika, KSV P,  Singh,  A,  Rathore, A and Kumar, A (2016). Novel cross linked guar gum-g-poly(acrylate) porous superabsorbent hydrogels: Characterization and swelling behaviour in different environments.  Carbohydr. Polym.,149,175–185.
    7. Shukla, AK, Sinha, N K, Tiwari, P K, Prakash, C, Behera, S K, Lenka, NK, Singh, VK, Dwivedi, B S, Majumdar, K, Kumar, A, Srivastava, P C, Pachauri, S P, Meena, M C, Lakaria, BL, and Siddiqui, S (2017). Spatial Distribution and Management Zones for Sulphur and Micronutrients in Shiwalik Himalayan Region of India. Land Degrad. Develop., 28, 959–969. doi: 10.1002/ldr.2673
    8. Adaka, P, Singh, A,  Dhiman, P,  Chandrika,  KSV P,  Walia, S,   Sirohi, A,  Jain, A ,  Khandelwal, M,  Kumar, A and Parmar, BS(2017). Hydrogel based formulations of Tagetespatula root extract and MgSO4 to control Meloidogynae incognita in cucumber. Allelopathy J.,40(2), 173-186 .
    9. Kumar, P and Chikara, AK (2016). A Blood Bank Management System Modelling Using Reliability Techniques. J. Eng. Manag. Res., 6(3).
    10. Hema Baliwada, J P Sharma, R R Burman, M S Nain, Anil Kumar and P Venkatesh (2017) Constraints and Strategies in Scaling up Farmer-led Innovations Journal of Community Mobilization and Sustainable Development 12(1), 72-78, January-June, 2017.

Scientist

Room No.:407

Official E-mail:     susheel.sarkar@icar.gov.in

Phone (O).:               extn-4166
Research interests:  Design of Experiments.

Susheel Kumar Sarkar

Important projects:

            Ongoing:

Sr No. Title of the project Project team Duration Funding agency
From

(DD/MM/YYYY)

 To

(DD/MM/YYYY)
1. On construction of orthogonal and nested orthogonal Latin hypercube designs Co-PI 16.11.2015 15.11.2018 Institute
2. ICAR Research Data Repository for Knowledge Management as KRISHI Co-PI 24.07.2015 31.03.2017 ICAR

 

            Completed:

Sr No. Title of the project Project team Duration Funding agency
From

(DD/MM/YYYY)

 To

(DD/MM/YYYY)
1. Developing training modules for entrepreneurship in buffalo husbandry Co-PI

 

 06.02.2009 13.04.2011 Institute
2. Studies on environmental pollutants and toxicants affecting feed quality and safety Co-PI

 

 01.04.2009 30.09.2011 Institute
3. Setting baseline profile standards for hematological, hormonal and biochemical parameters in buffaloes Co-PI

 

 08.09.2010 25.03.2011 Institute
4. Data refinement in farm animals through buffalo database management system PI 01.10.2010 03.11.2012 Institute
5. Development of Buffalopedia Co-PI 01.10.2010 30.09.2011 Institute
6. Information System for Designed Experiments Co-PI

 

 01.10.2012 13.11.2014 Institute
7. Main effect linear trend-free multilevel factorial experiments PI

 

 27.03.2012 28.02.2014 Institute
8. Information System for Designed Experiments PI

 

 14.11.2014 31.03.2017 Institute
9. Network project on Buffalo improvement

(Please see Annexure page no. 238)

 Co-PI 02.02.2009 30.04.2011 ICAR

Awards and honours:

Best trainee Award in 2008 by ICAR-NAARM, Hyderabad

  • Best Paper/ Poster award:
  • Dixit VB, Sarkar SK, Bharadwaj A, Phulia SK and Yadav SP (2010) International Buffalo Conference on “Optimizing Buffalo Productivity Through Conventional and Novel Technologies”, New Delhi, February, 1-4.
  • Appreciation certificate (2016) by Jamia Milia Islamia, New Delhi

Important publications (in following format):

Articles (top 10)

1.      Sarkar, Susheel Kumar and Lal,Krishan (2007). Profile Analysis of animal growth data. Ind. Jour. Ani. Sci. 78(4), 401-405.

2.      Sharma,R K., Singh J. K., Khanna, S.,  Phulia S. K., Sarkar S.K. and Singh Inderjeet (2012). Fetal age determination in Murrah buffaloes from days 22 through 60 with ultrasonography. Ind. Jour. Anim. Sci, 82 (4), 374–376.

3.      Arora, S., Kanojia, Ashok K., Kumar,A., Sardana, H.R., and Sarkar, Susheel Kumar (2012). Impact of biopesticide formulation on tomato (Lycopersiconesculemtum): economics and environmental effects. Ind. Jour. Agril. Sci, 82(12), 1075-1078.

4.      Choudhary,V.K., Kumar, P.Suresh, Sarkar, Susheel Kumar and Yadav, J.S. (2013). Production potential, economic analysis and energy auditing for maize- vegetable based cropping systems in Eastern Himalayan Region, Arunachal Pradesh. Ind. Jour. Agril. Sci., 83(1), 110-115.

5.      M. Arivalagan, Bhardwaj, R., Gangopadhyay, K.K., Prasad, T.V. and Sarkar, S.K. (2013). Mineral composition and their genetic variability analysis in eggplant (Solanummelongena L.) germplasm. Journal of Applied Botany and Food Quality, 86, 99 – 103.

6.      Yadav, S.P., Sikka P., Kumar,D., Sarkar, Susheel, Pandey,A.K., Yadav, P.S., and Sethi, R. K. (2013). Variation in milk constituents during different parity and seasons in Murrah buffaloes. Ind. Jour. Anim. Sci,; 83(7), 747-751.

7.      Kumar, D., Kumar, Pradeep, Singh, Pawan, Yadav, S.P., Sarkar, Susheel Kumar, Bharadwaj, A., and Yadav, P.S. (2014) Characteristics of frozen thawed semen in predicting the fertility of buffalo bulls. Ind. Jour. Anim. Sci, 84 (4), 389–392.

8.      Panwar, Sanjeev, Singh, K.N., Kumar, Anil, Sarkar, Susheel Kumar, Paul, Ranjeet, Rathore, Abhishek, and Sivaramane, N. (2014). Forecasting of growth rates of wheat yield of Uttar Pradesh through non-linear growth models. Ind. Jour. Agril. Sci, 84 (7), 856–9.

9.      Jerome, A., Pandey, A.K., and Sarkar, Susheel Kumar (2015). Homology modeling of single nuleotide polymorphisms in candidate genes controlling embryonic growth of buffalo. Ind. Jour. Anim. Sci, 85 (6), 578–583.

10.  Sharma,P., Singh,Geeta, Sushil K. Sarkar, Singh,Rana P. (2015) Improving soil microbiology under ricewheat crop rotation in Indo-gangetic Plains by optimized resource management.Environment Monitoring and Assessment. Volume 187, Issue 3

Books

Dr. UC Sud, Dr. Hukum Chandra, Dr. LM Bhar and Dr. Susheel Kumar Sarkar (2015) Statistics and Informatics in Agricultural Research. Excel Publishers, New Delhi.

Scientist

411, TAC Building

Official E-mail:     bn.mandal@icar.gov.in

Phone (O).:            +91-11-25847121 Ext. 4123
Research interests:  Incomplete block designs, linear programming, integer programming, incomplete split plot designs,  Latin hypercube designs, controlled sampling designs.

B N Mandal

Important projects:

            Ongoing:

Sr No. Title of the project Project team Duration Funding agency
1 A-optimal block designs for comparing treatments with control treatment(s): An algorithmic approach BN Mandal

Rajender Parsad

Sukanta Dash

 2015-2018 Institute
2 Incomplete split-plot designs: construction and analysis B N Mandal

Sukanta Dash

Rajender Parsad

 2016-2019 SERB, DST
3 On construction of orthogonal and nested orthogonal Latin hypercube designs Sukanta Dash

Rajender Parsad

B.N. Mandal Susheel Kumar Sarkar

 2015-2018 Institute

 

            Completed:

Sr No. Title of the project Project team Duration Funding agency
1 Planning, designing and analysis of data relating to experiments for AICRP on Long Term Fertilizer experiments B N Mandal

L M Bhar

K L Kalra

D K Sehgal

 2012-2017 AICRP-LTFE
2 Application of optimization techniques for construction of incomplete block designs B N Mandal,

Rajender Parsad

V K Gupta

 2011-2013 Institute

Awards and honours:

Important publications (in following format):

            Articles (top 10)

  1. Das, S., Meher, P. K., Rai, A., Bhar, L.M. and Mandal, B. N.(2017). Statistical Approaches for Gene Selection, Hub Gene Identification and Module Interaction in Gene Co-expression Network Analysis: An Application to Aluminium Stress in Soybean (Glycine max L.), PLoS One, 12(1), 1-24.
  2. Mandal, B N and Dash, S. (2017). On balanced incomplete Latin square designs, Communications in Statistics-Theory and Methods, 46(13), 6258-6263.
  3. Parui, S., Mandal, B. N., Parsad, R., and Dash, S.. (2016). Orthogonal Latin Hypercube Designs for Three Columns, Utilitas Mathematica, accepted.
  4. Mandal, B. N., Dash, S., Parui, S. and Parsad, R.(2016). Orthogonal Latin hypercube designs with special reference to four factors, Statistics and Probability Letters, 119, 181-185.
  5. Mandal, B. N. and Ma, J.(2016). l1 regularized multiplicative iterative path algorithm for non-negative generalized linear models, Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 101, 289-299.
  6. Mandal, B.N., Gupta, V.K. and Parsad, R (2017). Balanced Treatment Incomplete Block Designs through Integer Programming, Communications in Statistics-Theory and Methods, 46(8), 3728-3737.
  7. Mandal, B. N.(2015). Linear integer programming approach to construction of balanced incomplete block designs, Communications in Statistics-Simulation and Computation, 44(6), 1405-1411.
  8. Mandal, B. N., Gupta, V. K., and Parsad, R.(2014). Efficient Incomplete Block Designs Through Linear Integer Programming, American Journal of Mathematical and Management Sciences, 33(2), 110-124.
  9. Mandal, B.N., and Koukouvinos, C.(2014). Optimal multi-level supersaturated designs through integer programming, Statistics and Probability Letters, 84, 183-191.
  10. Malik, N, Biswas, A.K., Raju, C.B. and Mandal, B.N. (2011). Bio-monitoring of heavy metal pollution in a fishery reservoir of Central India, Fresenius Environmental Bulletin, 20(12), 3381-3386.

Books

  1.   Mandal, B. N. (2017). Introductory R for Beginners. Brillion Publishers, New Delhi
  2.   Gupta, V. K., Parsad, R., Bhar, L. M. and Mandal, B. N. (2016). Statistical Analysis of Agricultural Experiments Part-I: Single Factor Experiments.  ICAR-IASRI, New Delhi.
  3.   Gupta, V.K., Mandal,  B.N., and Parsad, R. (2015). Significance of Experimental Designs in Agricultural Research.  ICAR-IASRI, New Delhi.
  4.   Gupta, V.K. Mandal, B.N. and Parsad, R. (2012). Combinatorics in sample surveys vis-a-vis controlled selection: Combinatorics in controlled survey sampling.  LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, Germany.
  5.   Muralidharudu, Y. Sammi Reddy, K., Mandal, B.N., Subba Rao, A., Singh, K.N. and Sonekar, S. (2011). GIS Based Soil Fertility Maps of Different States of India.  Indian Council of Agricultural Research, New Delhi, India

Scientist

Room No.: 404

Official E-mail: anindita.datta@icar.gov.in

Phone (O).:        Extn. 4159

Research interests:  Row- Column Designs, Super Saturated Designs

Courses  Offered:

  • Basic Statistical Methods in Agriculture (2L+1P)
  • Design of Experiments (3L+1P)
  • Advanced Designs for Multi factor experiments (2L+1P)
  • Research guidance

As Member, advisory committee:

Number of Ph.D. students: 1

Anindita Datta

Important projects:

                Ongoing:

                Sr No. Title of the project Project team Duration Funding agency
1 Generalized Row- Column Designs for Crop and Animal Experiments

 

 Anindita Datta, Mohd Harun, Seema Jaggi and Cini Varghese 31.03.17 – 30.03.20 Institute

 

Awards and honours:

Awarded with Krishi Vigyan Gaurav Honorary Title by  Bhartiya Krishi Anusandhan Samit) and Agricultural Research Communication Center (ARCC) djuky (Karnal) for carrying out good amount of research work in official language fgaUnh (Hindi)

Important publications (in following format):

Articles (top 10)

  1. Datta, A., Jaggi, S., Varghese, E. and Varghese, C. (2017). Generalized Confounded Row- Column Designs. Communication in Statistics: Theory and Methods. 46(12), 6213-6221.
  2. Datta, A., Jaggi, S., Varghese, C. and Varghese, E. (2016). Series of Incomplete Row-Column Designs with Two Units per Cell. Advances in Methodology and Statistics. 13(1), 17-25.
  3. Datta, A., Jaggi, S., Varghese, C. and Varghese, E. (2015). Some series of row-column designs with multiple units per cell. Calcutta Statistical Association Bulletin, 67, ( 265-266), 89-99.
  4. Datta, A., Jaggi, S., Varghese, C. and Varghese, E. (2014). Structurally incomplete row-column designs with multiple units per cell. Statistics and Applications, 12(1&2), 71-79.

Scientist

Room No.: 417

Official E-mail: arpan.bhowmik@icar.gov.in

Phone (O).:    011-25847121 Extn. 4140

Research interests:

  • Experimental designs (designs with indirect effects, factorial experiments, response surface designs)
  • Logistic regression and its application
  • Application of statistical tools in social science research
  • Application of statistics in biological science
  • Statistical informatics

Dr. Arpan Bhowmik

Important projects:

            Ongoing:

Sr. No. Title of the project Project team Duration Funding agency
1. ICAR Research Data Repository for Knowledge Management as KRISHI: Knowledge based Resource Information System Hub for Innovations in Agriculture IASRI: A.K. Choubey, Anil Kumar, Mukesh Kumar, Anshu Bharadwaj, Susheel Sarkar, Arpan Bhowmik, Raju Kumar, Vandita Kumari Choudhary and Sukanta Dash (since 03.04.2017)

NAARM: A. DhandapaniNBSS&LUP: G.P. Obi Reddy, Nirmal Kumar, Sudipto Chattaraj

IARI: Viney Kumar Seghal, Joydeep MukerjeeDKMA: Mitali Ghosh Roy

CMFRI: J. JayasankarCRIDA: N.S. Raju

 24.07.2015-31.03.2017

project extended upto 30.09.2017

 XII Plan Component of ICAR Headquarters
2. Designing and Analysis of ON FARM Research Experiments Planned for AICRP on IFS Cini Varghese, Sukanta Dash, Arpan Bhowmik and Susheel Kumar Sarkar 01.04.2017– 31.03.2020 Funded by ICAR-IIFSR
3. Some Investigations on Trend Resistant Row-Column Designs Arpan Bhowmik, Seema Jaggi, Eldho Varghese and Sunil Kumar Yadav 24.09.2015 – 31.03.2018 In-house project
4. Minimal Response Surface Designs for Resource Optimization in Agricultural Experiments Eldho Varghese (upto 22.07.2017), Arpan Bhowmik, Seema Jaggi and Cini Varghese 04.09.2014 – 03.09.2017 In-house project

  Completed:            

Sr. No. Title of the project Project team Duration Funding agency
1. Factorial Experiments with Minimum Level Changes in Run Sequences Arpan Bhowmik, Eldho Varghese, Seema Jaggi and Cini Varghese 16.08.2013-04.04.16 In-house project
2. Planning, designing and analysis of ‘On Farm’ research experiments planned for AICRP on IFS N.K. Sharma (from 01.04.2012 upto 30.09.2014), Cini Varghese (w.e.f 01.10.2014), Sukanta Dash (w.e.f 01.10.12) and Arpan Bhowmik (w.e.f. 01.10.2014) 01.04.2012– 31.03.2017 Funded by ICAR-IIFSR
3. Standardization and validation of scales for measuring socio-psychological constructs related to risk adjustment and entrepreneurship behaviours of farmers IARI: Dr. R. N. Padaria, Dr. R. R. Burman, Dr. Rashmi Singh, Dr. Sujit Sarkar (IARI Regional Station, Kalimpong), Dr. V. Lenin, Dr. Reshma Gills,  IASRI (w.e.f 05.09.16): Dr. Arpan Bhowmik, Dr. Eldho Varghese 04.03.2016-31.03.2017

[IASRI association w.e.f 05.09.16]

 ICAR extra mural project under Agricultural Extension Division

Awards and honours:

  • IARI Merit Medal for outstanding academic performance in Ph.D. programme at the 52nd convocation of PG School, IARI on 21st February, 2014.
  • G.R. Seth Memorial Young Scientist Award-2015 by the Indian Society of Agricultural Statistics.
  • Awarded with कृषिबिज्ञानगौरव(Krishi Vigyan Gaurav) मानदउपाधि (Honorary Title) by भारतीयकृषिअनुसंधानसमिति(Bhartiya Krishi Anusandhan Samiti) and कृषिअनुसंधानसंचारकेंद्र [Agricultural Research Communication Center (ARCC)].
  • Received G. R. Seth Memorial Young Scientist Appreciation Certificate-2013 from Indian Society of Agricultural Statistics
  • Received First Prize in the Hindi Research Paper Poster Presentation Organized At IASRI On 10 September, 2013 During Hindi Pakhwada Celebration For The Following Research Paper
  • अर्पणभौमिक,एल्ढोबर्गीस,सीमाजग्गी,सिनीबर्गीसएवंबी. जे. गहलोत।निकट्बर्तीएकाइयोंकेईप्रभाबोंकोसम्मिलितकरतेहुएकृषिपरीक्षणोंकेईलिएसन्त्तुलितअभिकल्पनाओंकानिर्माण।
  • Following papers were awarded with best poster award in International Conference on Statistics & Big Data Bioinformatics In Agricultural Research at ICRISAT, Hyderabad during 21-23 November, 2016
  • Lall,Shwetank, Jaggi,Seema,Varghese,Eldho,Varghese,Cini and Bhowmik, Arpan. On construction of d-optimal designs for logistic regression model. [2nd best poster]
  • Anjum, Arfa, Jaggi,Seema, Varghese,Eldho, Lall, Shwetank,Rai, Anil,Bhowmik,Arpan,Mishra,D. C. and Sarika. Mixture distribution approach for identifying differentially expressed genes in microarray data of Arabidopsisthaliana.[3rd best poster]
  • Following papers was awarded with best paper award in the ISEE National Seminar on “Information and Communication Management Concerning Climate Smart Agriculture for Sustainable Development and Poverty Alleviation ” at Rajmata Vijaraje Scindia Krishi Viswavidyalaya (RVSKVV), Gwalior, MP during 28-30 November, 2016:
  • Verma, Rabeesh K., Wason, Monika, Padaria, R.N., Singh, Premlata, Sarkar, Sujit and Bhowmik, Arpan. Impact of ICT Based Initiative of Connecting Dream Foundation in Empowerment of Rural Women.
  • Qualified ICAR National Eligibility Test (NET) in the year 2010 in the discipline of Statistics and Computer Application
  • Received IARI Senior Research Fellowship for pursuing Ph.D. In the discipline of Agricultural Statistics at Pg School IARI.
  • Received ICAR Junior Research Fellowship for pursuing M.Sc. In the discipline of Agricultural Statistics at Pg School IARI.
  • Received University Merit Scholarship during b.sc. At Uttar Banga Krishi Viswa Vidyalaya.
  • Got National Merit Scholarships Certificate under national scholarship scheme in recognition of the high positions secured in the list of meritorious candidates qualifying for awards in the higher secondary examination.
  • Got National Merit Scholarships Certificate under national scholarship scheme in recognition of the high positions secured in the list of meritorious candidates qualifying for awards in the secondary examination.
  • Fourth Rank in Agricultural Research Service (ARS) examination in the discipline of Agricultural Statistics.
  • Second Rank in All India Ph.D. Entrance examination in the discipline of Agricultural Statistics conducted by Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), New Delhi in 2009.
  • Fifth Rank in All India Entrance Examination for Admission to Postgraduate Courses (AIEEA-PG) in 2007 in the Statistical Science Subject Group

Important publications (in following format):

            Articles (top 10)

  1. Varghese, E., Bhowmik, A., Jaggi, S., Varghese, C. and Kaur, C. (2017). On the generation of cost effective response surface designs. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 133, 37–45. [IF 1.892 Naas Rating 7.89]
  2. Anjum, A., Jaggi, S., Varghese, E., Lall, S., Bhowmik, A. and Rai, A. (2016). Identification of differentially expressed genes in rna-seq data of arabidopsis thaliana: a compound distribution approach. Journal of Computational Biology. 23(4), 239-247. [IF 1.537 Naas Rating 7.54]
  3. Jaggi, S., Pateria, D.K., Varghese, C., Varghese, E. and Bhowmik A. (2017).  A Note on Circular Neighbour Balanced Designs.Communication in Statistics: Simulation and Computation. DOI:10.1080/03610918.2017.1361980. [IF 0.457 Naas Rating 6.40].
  4. Varghese, C., Varghese, E., Jaggi, S. and Bhowmik, A. (2015). Experimental designs for open-pollination in polycross trials. Journal of Applied Statistics, 42(11), 2478-2484. [IF 0.419 Naas Rating 6.42]
  5. Bhowmik, A., Jaggi, S., Varghese, E., and Varghese, C. (2017). Optimal block designs with non-additive mixed effects interference. Communication in Statistics: Theory and Methods, DOI: 10.1080/03610926.2017.1291978. [IF 0.30 Naas Rating 6.30]
  6. Bhowmik, A., Varghese, E., Jaggi, S. and Varghese, C. (2016). Minimally changed run sequences in factorial experiments. Communication in Statistics: Theory and Methods, 46(15), 7444-7459. [IF 0.30 Naas Rating 6.30]
  7. Bhowmik, A., Jaggi, S., Varghese, C. and Varghese, E. (2015). Optimal block designs with interference effects from neighbouring units under a non-additive model. Communication in Statistics: Theory and Methods, 44(10), 2092-2103. [IF 0.30, Naas Rating 6.30]
  8. Sarkar, S., Padaria, R.N. and Bhowmik, A. (2017). Analyzing farmers’ vulnerability and adaptation strategy to climate change in arid ecosystem of India. Range Management and Agroforestry,38(1), 127-133. [IF 0.226 Naas Rating 6.39]
  9. Bhowmik, A., Ramasubramanian V., Rai, A., Kumar, A. and Kundu, M.G. (2016). Improved estimation in logistic regression through quadratic bootstrap approach: an application in agricultural ergonomics. Journal of the Indian Society of Agricultural Statistics. 70(3), 227-235. [Naas Rating: 5.46]
  10. Bhowmik, A., Varghese, E., Jaggi, S. and Varghese, C. (2015). Factorial experiments with minimum changes in run sequences.Journal of the Indian Society of Agricultural Statistics.69 (3), 243-255. [Naas Rating: 5.46]                           

            Books

  1. Jaggi, S., Varghese, E. and Bhowmik, A. (2014). Statistical techniques for studying effect of climate change on crop production. Book chapter published in a book entitled Climate change effect on crop productivity, CRC press, Taylor and Francis group, USA, (eds. Rakesh S. Sengar and Kalpana Sengar), 123-141 [ISBN: 978-1-4822-2920-2].
  2. Jaggi, S., Varghese, E. and Bhowmik, A. (2014). Practical on descriptive statistics, correlation and regression analysis using spss. Book chapter published in a handbook Module XIV: Statistics and computer application of extension  education: a Handbook, Venus Printers and Publishers, New Delhi, (eds.  Premlata Singh, J.P. Sharma, R.R. Burman, N.V. Kumbhare and Sujit Sarkar), vol. II, 395-401 [ISBN: 978-93-83168-12-5].
  3. Jaggi, S. and Bhowmik, A. (2014). SPSS graphics. . Book chapter published in a handbook Module XIV: Statistics and computer application of extension  education: a Handbook, Venus Printers and Publishers, New Delhi, (eds.  Premlata Singh, J.P. Sharma, R.R. Burman, N.V. Kumbhare and Sujit Sarkar), vol. II, 432-449 [ISBN: 978-93-83168-12-5].
  4. Jaggi, S., Varghese, C., Varghese, E. and Bhowmik, A.(2015). Statistical designs for forestry research. Book chapter published in a book entitled Statistics in forestry: methods and applications, Bonfring, Coimbatoor, India (eds. Girish Chandra, Raman Nautiyal, Hukum Chandra, Nilanjan Roychoudhury, Naseer Mohammad), 13-24 [ISBN: 978-93-84743-83-3].

Scientist

Room No.: 402 (TAC Block)

Official E-mail: sukanta.dash@icar.gov.in

Phone (O).:        011-25847122(EXT: 4158)

Research interests:  Row Column Design, Factorial Experiments, Optimal Design, Response surface Design, Mixture Experiments, Linear Model, Latin Hypercube Design, Microarray Experiments, Multivariate analysis.

Dr. Sukanta Dash

Important projects:

Ongoing:

Sr No. Title of the project Project team Duration Funding agency
1 On construction of orthogonal and nested orthogonal Latin hypercube designs PI:Sukanta Dash,Co-PI: Rajender Parsad, B.N. Mandal and Susheel Kumar Sarkar 16.11.2015 to 15.11.2018 Institute
2 Performance Assessments of Universities in Agriculture Education: A comparative analysis PI:Sukanta Dash,Co-PI:Anil Kumar 02.08.2017 to 31.03.2018 ICAR
3 Designing and Analysis of ON FARM Research Experiments Planned under AICRP on IFS PI: Cini Varghese, Co-PI:Sukanta Dash and Arpan Bhowmik 01.10.2012 to 31.03.2017 Extended: 01.04.2017 to 31.03.2020 ICAR-IIFSR
4 A-optimal block designs for comparing treatments with control treatment(s): An algorithmic approach PI:BN Mandal, Co-PI:Rajender Parsad and Sukanta Dash 18.02.2015 to 31.03.2017, Extended Institute
5 Incomplete split plot designs: construction and analysis PI:BN Mandal, Co-PI:Sukanta Dash and Rajender Parsad 16.08.2016 to 15.08.2019 SERB (DST)
6 ICAR Research Data Repository for Knowledge Management as KRISHI: Knowledge based Resource Information System Hub for Innovations in Agriculture: XII Plan Component of ICAR Headquarters A.K. Choubey, Rajender Parsad, Mukesh Kumar, Anshu Bhardwaj, Susheel Sarkar, Arpan Bhowmik, Raju Kumar, Vandita Kumari Choudhary, Sukanta Dash (from 01.04.17). 24.07.2015 to 31.03.2017 Extended ICAR

            Completed:

Sr No. Title of the project Project team Duration Funding agency
1 Row-column designs for factorial experiments in two rows. PI:Sukanta Dash,Co-PI: Rajender Parsad, B.N. Mandal and V. K. Gupta 04.10.2012 to 31.03.2014 Institute
2 Information System for Planning and Analysis of Experiments of All India Co-ordinated Research Project on Vegetable Crops. IASRI, New Delhi: Rajender Parsad and Sukanta Dash; NAARM, Hyderabad: A. Dhandapani; AICRP on VC, IIVR, Varanasi: B Singh and T Choubey) 05.02.2014 to 31.03.2017 AICRP on VC
3 Creating Awareness for Efficient Use of ICT and MOOCs in Agriculture Education PI: Anil Kumar, Co-PI:Sukanta Dash 01.11.2016 to 31.03.2017 ICAR

Awards and honours:

  1. Received National Talent Scholarship in 10th
  2. Received Merit Scholarship in OUAT, Chiplima for highest grade at UG level.
  3. Received ICAR-JRF Fellowship in ICAR at MSc level.
  4. Received IARI institute fellowship in IARI at Ph.D. level.
  5. Received Dr. M N Das Memorial young scientist award at SKUAS&T,Jammu in the 19th Annual Conference of Society of Statistics, Computer and Application on 8th March,2017.
  6. Member of the editorial board of the journal Progressive Research: An International Journal.
  7. Member of Executive body of Indian society of Agricultural Statistics.
  8. Life member of Indian Society of Agricultural Statistics.
  9. Life member of Society for Statistics and Computation Applications.

 Important publications (in following format):

            Articles (top 10)

  1. Dash, S., Wahi, S.D. and Rao, A.R. (2012). Classification of maize genotypes by artificial neural network-based method: self-organizing feature map. Indian journal of agricultural science, 82(2), 161-163.
  2. Dash, S., Parsad, R. and Gupta, V. K. (2013). Row–Column Designs for 2n factorial 2-Colour Microarray Experiments for Estimation of Main Effects and Two-Factor Interactions with Orthogonal Parameterization  Agricultural Research, 2(2), 172-182
  3. Dash, S., Parsad, R. and Gupta, V.K. (2014). Efficient row-column designs with two rows, Journal of the Indian Society of Agricultural Statistics, 68(3), 377-390
  4. Mandal, B.N., Dash, S. (2017). On balanced incomplete Latin square design. Communication in statistics theory and methods, 46(13), 6258-6263.
  5. Rani, V., Dash, S., Nain, L., and Arora, A. (2015).Expression of novel glucose tolerant β-glucosidase on cell surface by Rhodotorulaglutinis isolate, Biocatalysis and Agricultural Biotechnology, 4(3), 380-387.
  6. Singh, S., Dash, S., Rinu, K., Saha, S., Gupta, S., Mandjiny, S., Upadhyay, D. and Holmes, L.(2016) Nisin Production in a Two Liters Bioreactor Using LactococcuslactisNCIM 2114, Journal of Medical and Biological Science Research, 2 (2), 21-26.
  7. Pradhan, U. K., Lal, K., Dash, S. and Singh, K. N. (2016) Designs and Analysis of Mixture Experiments with Process Variable in smaller number of runs. Communication in Statistics: Theory and Methods, 46(1), 259-270.
  8. Parui, S., Mandal, B. N., Parsad R., and Dash, S. (2016). Orthogonal Latin Hypercube Designs for Three Columns, UtilitasMathematica. Accepted
  9. Mandal, B. N., Dash, S., Parui, S. and Parsad, R. (2016). Orthogonal Latin hypercube designs with special reference to four factors, Statistics & Probability Letters, 119, 181-185.
  10. Singh, N., Dash, S. and Khan, Y.J. (2016), Survival of chickpea, sesame, niger, castor and safflower seedsstored at low and ultra low moisture contents for 16-18 years,Seed Sci. & Technol., 44(3), 1-14

Scientist

Room No.: 408(B) (Training-cum-Administrative Block)

Official E-mail: sunil.yadav@icar.gov.in

Phone (O).:        011–258441254(Ext.-4154)

Research interests:  Non-normal error distributions, Mixture Experiments, Optimal Designs.

Sunil Kumar Yadav

Important projects:

Ongoing:

Sr No. Title of the project Project team Duration Funding agency
1. Some Investigations on Trend Resistant Row-Column Designs. PI-Arpan Bhowmik, CoPI-Seema Jaggi, Eldho Varghese and Sunil Kumar Yadav 24.09.2015–31.03.2018 Institute
2. Analytical Procedure for Factorial Experiments with Logistic and Gompertz Error Distributions. PI-Sunil Kumar Yadav 25.05.2017 – 24.05.2019 Institute

Completed: Nil

Awards and honours:

Important publications :

Articles (top 10):

1. Bhaumik, A., Jaggi, S., Varghese, E. and Yadav, S.K. (2017). Trend free design under two-way elimination of heterogeneity. RASHI, 2(1), 34-38.

Scientist

Room No.: 413

Official E-mail: Mohd.Harun@icar.gov.in

Phone (O).:        011-25847122 Extn. 4125

Research interests: Designs and Analysis for Breeding Trials,Variance Components Estimation of Combining Ability Effects in Multi-way crosses, Incomplete Block Designs, Row-Column Designs

Courses Offered

  • Senior Certificate Course (Module II)
  • Design of Experiments (6L + 2P)

Mohd Harun

Important projects:

                Ongoing:

Sr No. Title of the project Project team Duration Funding agency
1. Design Involving Three-way and Four-way Genetic Crosses for Crop and Animal Breeding Programmes Mohd Harun (PI)

AninditaDatta (Co-PI)

Cini Varghese (Co-PI)

Seema Jaggi (Co-PI)

 09.03.2017 – 08.03.2020 Institute Funded
2. Generalised Row Column Designs for Crop and Animal Experiments AninditaDatta (PI)

Mohd Harun (Co-PI)

Seema Jaggi (Co-PI)

Cini Varghese (Co-PI)

 

 31.03.2017 – 30.03.2020 Institute Funded
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