CURRICULUM VITAE February 2015 Gururaja KV, Ph.D. Chief Scientist, Gubbi Labs LLP, WS-5, I Floor, Entrepreneurship Center, SID, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore – 560 012, INDIA Tel (M) +91 94 8018 7502 (H) +91 80 23647262 | Email [email protected] Web www.gururajakv.net | Skype gururajakv https://gubbilabs.academia.edu/GururajaKV Education 2003 Ph.D. Environmental Science, Kuvempu University Thesis: Effect of Habitat Fragmentation on Distribution and Ecology of Anurans in Some Parts of Central Western Ghats. 1999 M.Sc. Environmental Science, Kuvempu University Dissertation: Habitat characters of Nyctibatrachus major (Boulenger) in some parts of Western Ghats 1997 B.Sc. Botany, Zoology and Chemistry. Sahyadri Science College, Shivamogga Academic and Research Appointments 2015 - present Chief Scientist, Gubbi Labs LLP, Bangalore. 2009 – 2014 Research Scientist, CiSTUP, Indian Institute of Science. 2003 – 2009 Research Associate, CES, Indian Institute of Science. 1999 – 2002 Junior and Senior Research Fellow, Kuvempu University. Teaching Interest and Experience Ecology – Fundamental concepts; species, population and community; Landscape Ecology, Urban Ecology and Movement Ecology Amphibian Behavioural Ecology – Parental care, Reproductive character displacement and character evolution in anuran amphibians Multimodal communication in anurans – Acoustic and visual (foot flagging; dichromatism) signaling in anurans. Biostatistics; Ecological niche modelling; RS and GIS; Research Methods Courses taught: Masters 1. Wildlife Biology, 2011. Central University, Kerala 2. Amphibian Ecology, 2011. National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore Under Graduate 3. Animal diversity, 2011, Indian Institute of Science UG course in Biology, Bangalore. Short-term intense courses (17 courses, since 2012) on 4. Mapping Essentials; Research and Statistics Essentials and Agent based modeling Other Qualifications DSLR Short-film Making, 2015 The Data Scientist’s Toolbox, Johns Hopkins University, 2014, Coursera Introduction to complexity, Santa Fe Institute, 2013, Complexity explorer Maps and Geospatial Revolution, Pennsylvania State University, 2013, Coursera Animal Behavior, University of Melbourne, 2013, Coursera Municipal Solid waste Management, CCE, IISc, 2003 Computers Diploma in Business Application, 1997 Expertise in Software Tools GIS tools: Mapinfo 8.5, IDRISI Andes, QGIS 2.6, DIVA-GIS, FRAGSTATS, TILEMILL/MAPBOX Modelling Tools: NetLogo, MaxEnt, openModeller, desktop GARP, DIVA-GIS Statistical Tools: PAST, STATISTICA, R/R Studio Acoustic Tools: Audacity, Song Scope, SigView, Raven Pro. Publications Total publications 53 International 19 Peer reviewed 51 National 34 Non-peer reviewed 2 Books 4 Google Citations 283 h index 9 scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=ybO__OoAAAAJ&hl=en Amphibian Ecology, Behaviour and Conservation 1. Seshadri KS, Gururaja KV and Bickford DP. 2014. Breeding in bamboo: A novel reproductive strategy by anurans discovered in Rhacophorid frogs of the Western Ghats, India. Biological Journal of Linnaean Society. DOI: 10.1111/bij.12388. 2. Gururaja KV, Dinesh KP, Priti H and Ravikanth G. 2014. Mud-packing Frogs: A novel breeding behavior and parental care in a stream dwelling new species of Nyctibatrachus (Amphibia, Anura, Nyctibatrachidae). Zootaxa, 3796 (1): 033–061. dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3796.1.2 3. Preininger D, Stiegler MJ, Gururaja KV, Vijayakumar SP, Torsekar V, Sztatecsny M and Hödl W. 2013. Getting a kick out of it: Multimodal signaling during male-male encounters in the foot-flagging frog Micrixalus saxicola from the Western Ghats of India. Current Science, 105(12):1735-1740. Walter Hodle 4. Seshadri KS, Vivek C and Gururaja KV. 2012. Anurans from wetlands of Puducherry, along the East Coast of India. Check List, 8(1): 023-026. 5. Gururaja KV, Preeti G, Patil RK and Cunningham AA. 2011. Dermal Fungal Infection in a Frog from the Western Ghats, India. Current Science, 101(5):622-623. 6. Gururaja KV. 2010. Novel reproductive mode in a torrent frog Micrixalus saxicola (Jerdon) from the Western Ghats, India. Zootaxa, 2642:45-52. 7. Dinesh KP, Radhakrishnan C, Gururaja KV and Palot MJ. 2010. Range extension of Philautus chromasynchysi Biju and Bossuyt (Amphibia: Anura: Rhacophoridae) in Western Ghats, India. Records of Zoological Survey of India. 110(4):31-35. 8. Subash Chandran MD, Rao GR, Gururaja KV and Ramachandra TV. 2010. Ecology of the Swampy Relic Forests of Kathalekan from Central Western Ghats, India. Bioremediation, Biodiversity and Bioavailability, Global Science Book Journals, 4(1): 54-68. 9. Dinesh KP, Radhakrishnan C, Gururaja KV and Zacariya A. 2010. New locality records of Rhacophorus lateralis Boulenger, 1883 (Amphibia: Anura: Rhacophoridae), in Western Ghats, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa, 2(6):986-989. 2 10. Seshadri KS, Amit Yadav and Gururaja KV. 2009. Road kills of amphibians in different land – uses from central Western Ghats, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa, 1(11): 549-552. 11. Gururaja KV, Ali S, and Ramachandra TV. 2007. Micrixalus fuscus (Anura: Micrixalidae) in Sharavathi River Basin, Karnataka. Journal of Bombay Natural History Society, 104(1):104-105. 12. Gururaja KV and Ramachandra TV. 2006. Pedostibes tuberculosus Advertisement calls and distribution. Herpetological Review, 37(1):75–76. 13. Gururaja KV and Ramachandra TV. 2006. Developmental mode in White-nosed shrub frog Philautus cf. leucorhinus. Current Science, 90(3):450–454. 14. Gururaja KV, Manjunatha Reddy AH, Keshavayya J, and Krishnamurthy SV. 2003. Habitat occupancy and influence of abiotic factors on the occurrence of Nyctibatrachus major (Boulenger) in central Western Ghats, India. Russian Journal of Herpetology, 10(2):87–92. 15. Krishnamurthy SV, Gururaja KV and Manjunatha Reddy AH. 2002. Direct development in Philautus glandulosus (Anura: Rhacophoridae). Herpetological Natural History, 9(1):97–102. 16. Manjunatha Reddy AH, Gururaja KV, and Krishnamurthy SV. 2002. Habitat features of Micrixalus saxicola Jerdon, 1854 in the Western Ghats, India. Amphibia-Reptilia, 23:370–374. 17. Manjunatha Reddy AH, Gururaja KV, Ravichandran MS, and Krishnamurthy SV. 2001. Range extension of Ansonia ornata (Günther, 1875) and Indirana brachytarsus (Günther, 1875). Hamadryad, 26(2):358–359. 18. Krishnamurthy SV, Gururaja KV, and Manjunatha Reddy AH. 2001. Nyctibatrachus major (Large Wrinkled Frog), Feeding Habit. Herpetological Review, 32(3):182. Species Discovery 19. Biju SD, Garg S, Gururaja KV, Souche Y and Walujkar SA. 2014. DNA barcoding reveals unprecedented diversity in Dancing Frogs of India (Micrixalidae, Micrixalus): a taxonomic revision with description of 14 new species. Ceylon Journal of Science (Bio. Sci.) 43: 1-87 DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.4038/cjsbs.v43i1.6850. 20. Seshadri KS, Gururaja KV and Aravind NA. 2012. A new species of Raorchestes (Amphibia: Anura: Rhacophoridae) from mid-elevation evergreen forests of the south Western Ghats, India. Zootaxa, 3410: 19- 34. 21. Gururaja KV, Dinesh KP, Palot MJ, Radhakrishnan C and Ramachandra TV. 2007. A new species of Philautus Gistel (Amphibia: Anura: Rhacophoridae) from southern Western Ghats, India. Zootaxa, 16:1-16. 22. Dinesh KP, Radhakrishnan C, Manjunatha Reddy AH and Gururaja KV. 2007. Nyctibatrachus karnatakaensis nom. nov. a replacement name for the giant wrinkled frog from the Western Ghats. Current Science, 93(2):246–250. 23. Gururaja KV, Aravind NA, Sameer Ali, Ramachandra TV, Velavan TP, Krishnakumar V and Aggarwal RK. 2007. A New Frog Species from the Central Western Ghats of India, and its phylogenetic status. Zoological Sciences, 24:525–534. 24. Krishnamurthy SV, Manjunatha Reddy AH, and Gururaja KV. 2001. A new species of genus Nyctibatrachus (Boulenger) from Kudremukh National Park. Current Science, 80(7):887–891. Conservation and Landscape Ecology 25. Nag N, Karanth KP and Gururaja KV. 2014. Delineating ecological boundaries of Hanuman langur species complex in peninsular India using MaxEnt modeling approach. PLoSONE, 9(2): e87804. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0087804. 3 26. Ramachandra TV, Joshi NV, Rao GR, Dhanapal G, Gururaja KV and Amit SY. 2014. Ecological status of three micro watersheds in Western Himalaya. Indian Forester. 140:331-347. 27. Rajasri R, Gururaja KV and Ramachandra TV. 2011. Predictive distribution modeling for rare Himalayan medicinal plant Berberis aristata DC. The Journal of Environmental Biology, 32:725-730. 28. Sreekantha, Gururaja KV and Ramachandra TV. 2008. Nestedness Pattern in Freshwater Fishes of Western Ghats: An Indication of Stream Islands along Riverscapes. Current Science, 95(12):1707-1714. 29. Subash Chandran MD, Mesta DK, Rao GR, Sameer Ali, Gururaja KV, Ramachandra TV. 2008. Discovery of Two Critically Endangered Tree Species and Issues Related to Relic Forests of the Western Ghats. The Open Conservation Biology Journal, 2:1-8. doi:10.2174/1874839200802010001. 30. Sreekantha, Subash Chandran MD, Divakar KM, Rao GR, Gururaja KV and Ramachandra TV. 2007. Fish diversity in relation to landscape and vegetation in central Western Ghats, India. Current Science, 92(11):1592–1603. 31. Ali S, Gururaja KV and Ramachandra TV. 2005. Schistura nilgiriensis (Menon) in Sharavathi River Basin, Western Ghats, Karnataka. Zoos’ Print Journal, 20(2):1784–1785. 32. Nazneen K, Gururaja KV, Manjunatha Reddy AH and Krishnamurthy SV. 2001. Birds of Kuvempu University Campus, Shimoga District, Karnataka. Zoos’ Print Journal, 16(8):557–560. 33. Sreekantha, Gururaja KV, Rema Devi K, Indra TJ and Ramachandra TV. 2006. Two