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

Sub Lt. (Dr.) Pratheesh P. Gopinath is Assistant Professor and Head in the Department of Agricultural Statistics at the College of Agriculture, Vellayani. His specialisation is Data Analysis and Artificial Intelligence (AI).

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