P.Krishna Reddy

Ph.D, Professor

International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIIT-H)
Gachibowli, Hyderabad, Telangana State, India, Pin: 500032, INDIA
Phone: 91-40-66531000 Ext: 1322;
Fax: 91-40-66531413
Email : pkreddy@iiit.ac.in

About Me

About

Professor P.Krishna Reddy is in IIIT, Hyderabad since 2002. During 2013 to 2015, he was a Program Director, ITRA-Agriculture & Food, Information Technology Research Academy (ITRA), Government of India. During 1997 to 2002, he was a research associate at the Center for Conceptual Information Processing Research, Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo. He has received PhD degree in Computer Science from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. His research interests include data mining, database systems and IT for agriculture. He has published about 145 refereed research papers.

Awards and Recognitions

P . Krishna Reddy

Bio Sketch

Prof. P. Krishna Reddy is a faculty member at IIIT Hyderabad. He is the head of Agricultural Research Center and the member of Data Sciences and Analytics Center research team at IIIT Hyderabad, India. During 2013 to 2015, he has served as a Program Director, ITRA-Agriculture & Food, Information Technology Research Academy (ITRA), Government of India. From 1997 to 2002, he was a research associate at the Center for Conceptual Information Processing Research, Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo. From 1994 to 1996, he was a faculty member at the Division of Computer Engineering, Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology, Delhi. During the summer of 2003, he was a visiting researcher at Institute for Software Research International, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburg, USA. He has received both M.Tech and Ph.D degrees in computer science from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi in 1991 and 1994, respectively. His research areas include data mining, database systems and IT for agriculture. He has published about 189 refereed research papers which include 30 journal papers, four book chapters, and eight edited books. He is a steering committee member of the pacific-asia knowledge discovery and data mining (PAKDD) conference series and Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA) conference series. He is a steering committee chair of Big Data Analytics (BDA) conference series since 2017. He was a proceedings chair of COMAD 2008, a workshop chair of KDRS 2010, media and publicity chair of KDD 2015, and general chair of BDA2017. As a general chair, he has organized the both 14th and 21th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD2010 and PAKDD2021) conferences, the Third National Conference on Agro-Informatics and Precision Agriculture 2012 (AIPA 2012) and the Fifth International Conference on Big Data Analytics (BDA 2017). He is currently organizing DASFAA2022. He has delivered several invited/panel talks at the reputed conferences and workshops in India and abroad. He has got several awards and recognitions. He has executed research projects by raising the research funding of about 80 million Indian rupees. Since 2004, he has been investigating the building efficient knowledge agricultural knowledge transfer systems by extending developments in IT. He has developed eSagu system, which is an IT-based farm-specific agro-advisory system, which has been field-tested in hundreds of villages on about 50 field and horticultural crops. He has also built eAgromet system, which is an IT-based agro-meteorological advisory system to provide risk mitigation information to farmers. He has conceptualized the notion of Virtual Crop Labs to improve applied skills for extension professionals. Currently, he is investigating the building of Crop Darpan system, which is a crop diagnostic tool for farmers, with the funding support from India-Japan Joint Research Laboratory Program. He has received two best paper awards. The eSagu system, which is an IT based farm-specific agro-advisory system, has got several recognitions including CSI-Nihilent e-Governance Project Award in 2006, Manthan Award in 2008 and finalist in the Stockholm Challenge Award in 2008. He has received PAKDD Distinguished Service Award in 2021.

Conferences / Workshops

KEYNOTE, INVITED AND PANEL TALKS

Research projects

  1. Project title: Efficient Knowledge Transfer: Data Science-based Farming Support System for Sustainable Crop Production under Climatic Change
    Duration: 5 years (April 2017 to March 2022)
    Funding agency: Indian Department of Science and Technology (DST) and Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST)
    Role: Chief Investigator

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  3. Project title: An IT Driven Personalized Agri-facilitator for better farming for 30 villages in Ranga Reddy District.
    Duration: One year (June 2015 - May 2018)
    Project cost: 35 lakhs
    Funding Agency: Bharat Electroonics Limited
    Role: Chief Investigator

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  5. Project title: An IT Driven Personalized Agri-facilitator for better farming for 30 villages in Medak District.
    Duration: One year (March 2015 - February 2016)
    Project cost: 42 lakhs,
    Funding Agency: Bharat Dynamics Limited
    Role: Chief Investigator

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  7. Project Title: Village Level eSagu: A Prototype in Karnool District
    Duration: One year (Mar-2012- May 2013)
    Project cost: Rs.17.75 lakhs
    Funding Agency: Centre for Good Governance (CGG), Hyderabad, India.
    Role: Chief Investigator

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  9. Project Title: eAgromet: ICT-enabled Integrated Agro-Meteorological Advisory System
    Duration: Two years (February 2011- January 2013)
    Amount: 74.33 lakhs
    Funding Agency: Indian Meteorological Department, Ministry of Earth Sciences.
    In Collaboration with: Agromet Cell, Acharya NG Ranga Agricultural University.
    Role: Chief Investigator

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  11. Project title: Enabling farmers to mango and sweet orange crops through eSagu agro-advisory under NREGS-Andhra Pradesh
    Duration: December 2008 to November 2009
    Amount: Rs 8.31 lakhs
    Funding Agency: Department of Rural Development, Andhra Pradesh
    Role: Chief Investigator

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  13. Project Title: Investigating eSagu-based-Multi modal service to roleout integrated Agri-services program
    Duration: one year (July 2008 to June 2009)
    Amount: 30 Lakhs
    Funding agency: Media Lab Asia
    Role: Chief-investigator

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  15. Project Title: Data/Information capture dissemination and Discovery solution to farmers in remote areas
    Duration: Two years (April 2007 to March 2009)
    Amount: 17.83 lakhs.
    Funding Agency: NOKIA
    Role: Chief-Investigator

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  17. Project Title: eSagu--- Productization, Optimization, and Developing a Business Model
    Duration: One year (November 2006- October 2007)
    Amount= Rs. 351.05 lakhs
    Funding Agency: Media Lab Asia
    Role: Chief-Investigator

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  19. Project Title: Interim Project on eSagu
    Duration: Three months (August 2006 . October2006); Amount: 17.40 lakhs
    Funding Agency: Media Lab Asia
    Role: Chief-Investigator

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  21. Project Title: Building a Cost-effective and Personalized eSagu
    Duration: One year (August 2005 - July 2006)
    Amount: 145.84 lakhs
    Funding Agency: Media Lab Asia
    Role: Chief-investigator

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  23. Project Title: Web-based Agricultural Information Dissemination System
    Duration: One year (April 2004- July 2005)
    Amount: 62.11 lakhs
    Funding Agency: Ministry of Communication and Information Technology, New Delhi.
    Role: Chief Investigator.

M.S / Ph.D students

Data Mining, Knowledge Discovery

IT for Agriculture and Rural Development

Transcation Synchronization, Database Systems