Assistant Development

TIKA RAM ADHIKARI

*** ******* ***** *** # * Phone (office): 317-***-****

Greenwood City Email: ******@*****.***

SUMMARY OF EXPERIENCE:

Expert in spatial data development, geodatabse design and analysis, expert in cadastral and topographical

map development, expert for analyzing remote sensing imageries (optical, radar, hyper spectral),

experienced in using Geographic Information System, Remote Sensing and Global Positioning software

(e.g, All Modules’ of ArcGIS, ERDAS Imagine, ENVI) in planning, strategic decision making and

understanding in real world problem, expert in spatial analysis including advanced statistics and spatial

statistics, experienced in geo-visualization and 3D to 5D information visualization, well experienced in

simulation and modeling using programming languages (e.g. C++ NetLogo, Java, Visual C++, Visual

Basics, Python), experienced to model shifting in vegetation dynamics including effect of global climate

change, experienced in modeling risk and uncertainty in economic returned of farmland under global

climate change and government policy change scenarios, experienced using the concept of various

geographical scales in analyzing sustainable development, poverty index development, and land use

suitability index development, experienced in modeling and analyzing traffic road accidents of teenage

school drivers, experienced in modeling ecosystem services at watershed level, experienced statistical

sampling techniques and participatory research approach

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Graduate Research Assistant, University of Iowa from August, 2012 to December, 2012. Completed an

agent-based model for the White Pine Blue Rust Project Using C++ (CA Cellular Automata based model)to simulate vegetation dynamics.

Graduate Research Assistant, The Public Policy Center, the University of Iowa, January 2011 to December, 2011. Mapped and analyzed teenage school driving errors using 3D geographic Space, Iowa

Graduate Research Assistant, University of Iowa from January, 2012 to May 2012. Developed Agent-based model for farmers’ decision making in Iowa integrating crop insurance program decision enrollment

Graduate Research Assistant, Purdue University, January 2005-2007: analyzed spatial data and developed a spatial model for decision support system for Forest Stewardship Program implementation.

GIS Interns in the Iowa Department of Natural Resources/US Geological Survey, April 2010 to August 10, 2010. Developed base Maps for FEMA and Developed Stream Networks of Iowa using Lidar Datasets.

GIS Specialist, GIS Division, Soil Science Department, Nepal Agricultural Research Council, Nepal.

August to December 2004. Mapped food calorie status in 75 districts of Nepal.

GIS and Remote Sensing Officer, Kathmandu Valley Mapping Program, Nepal, January 2001 to April

2003. Prepared public utilities database, addressed map, digital cadastral data, and 1: 10,000, topographical map, procured satellite imageries, analyzed housing typology, and derived land use change, and gathered data using global positioning systems.

Research and Training Specialist, Sustainable Community Development Program/UNDP Nepal. June 1999 to September 2000. Designed base-line questionnaire for household survey, analyzed survey data using statistical methods, developed sustainable development index map, and prepared annual as well as periodic reports for Sustainable Community Development Program.

Data Analyst, National Planning Commission /APROSC, Nepal. March to June 1999. Analyzed the socioeconomic data, projected school-age children, school-enrollment by gender and developed a Development Plan for 16 Hill Districts of Nepal

EDUCATION QUALIFICATION:

Graduate Student University of Iowa Spring 2008 to August, 2013.

M.Sc in Forestry and Natural Resources, December 2007 Purdue University, West Lafayette 47906 IN

M.Sc. in Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems 1997, Asian Institute of Technology,

Bangkok, Thailand

B.Sc in Agriculture Science 1994, Institute of Agriculture and Animal Science (IAAS), Tribhuvan University, Nepal.

C++, C, Visual Basic, Java, Python, Prolog, NETLOGO, INVEST, Matlab, Geoda, SPSS/SAS, STATA, R,

ArcGIS 10.2.2 (All moduels), Soil and Water Assessment Tools (SWAT), Agricultural Policy Environmental eXtender (APEX) ArcSDE, MapInfo, Idrisi, Envi, Erdas Imagine, Microsoft Access, Astech and Garmen GPS, Postgresql, Operating system installations.

Contact this candidate