Educational Qualifications:

• M.Phil. in Computer Science from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi as Senior/ Junior Research Fellow of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (1984-1986). Title of dissertation - "A Study of Synchronization Techniques in Distributed Databases Systems"
  

• M.Sc. in 'Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation' (Specialization: Geo-Information Management) from the International Institute for Geo-Information Science & Earth Observation (ITC), Enschede, The Netherlands under the Netherlands Fellowship Programme (2002-2004). Title of dissertation - "Developing Geo-Spatial Data Distribution Strategies for National Mapping Organizations - Case of India"
  

• UNDP Visiting Fellowship on 'Spatial Data Modeling' at the National Centre for Geographic Information and Analysis (NCGIA), State University of New York, Buffalo, USA (September - December 1997)

• District level Enterprise GIS
  
• Geospatial Interoperability & applications
  
• Geo-web services
  
• Workflow Management
  
• Ontology/ Geo-semantic Web
  
• Spatial Data Infrastructures

1. 'Role of National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) - A Natural Resources Data Management System (NRDMS) Perspective' - Proceedings of the Seminar on 'GIS - An Emerging Tool for Indian Army' held at College of Military Engineering, Pune on 7-8 February 2007

2. 'Modeling of National Topographic Data and Development of a Relational Database for Sharing Open Series Maps', Proceedings of XXVI Indian National Cartographic Association (INCA) International Congress held at New Delhi on 22-25 November 2006

3. 'Conversion Of Digital Vector Data (DVD) To Geography Markup Language (GML) And Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) - The Workflow And Its Importance In Real-Time Cartography', Proceedings of XXVI Indian National Cartographic Association (INCA) International Congress held at New Delhi on 22-25 November 2006

4. 'Enterprise Geographic Information System (E-GIS): A Service-based Architecture for Geospatial Data Interoperability', Proceedings of the IEEE International Geo-science and Remote Sensing Symposium 2006, held at Denver, Colorado, USA, July 31 - Aug 04 2006

5. 'GML Prototype Tested for Interoperability' - 'Coordinates', New Delhi , March 2006 (http://www.mycoordinates.org/ps-acharya-rn-nanda-a-sindal-mar-06.php)

6. 'A Service-Oriented Architecture for Enterprise-GIS', Proceedings of 9th Annual Int. Conf. on Geographic Information Science, Technology and Application (Map India 2006), New Delhi, India, January 2006

7. 'Natural Resources Data Management System approach to water management at local level', Proceedings of the "National Meet on S & T inputs for Water Resources Management", IIT, Delhi, 8-10 April, 1997

8. 'Natural Resources Data Management System - An approach to spatial planning at local level', Proceedings of the Tenth Conference of Indian National Cartographic Application, Mumbai, 25-29 October, 1990

9. 'Development of integrated spatial database for micro level planning - NRDMS Experience', Proceedings of the International Symposium on Cartographic & Database Applications of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing , Tsukuba, Japan, 15-18 May 1990

10. 'Natural Resources Data management System - A spatial Approach to micro level planning', Proceedings of the Tenth Asian Conference on Remote Sensing, Kuala Lampur, 22-28 November 1989