Ram Dayal Vaishnav Email & Phone Number

Hyderabad, In

Contributing towards Sustainable Development Goal 11 - "Sustainable Cities and Communities".

Hong Kong Sar

• Spearheading efforts to increase Citizen Science activities from Asia by analyzing crowdsourced Biodiversity data and expanding outreach to all Asian countries.• Leveraging technological solutions for improved efficiency via automation enabling operational efficiencies and easy data processing abilities.• Integrating Citizen Science into mainstream education via stakeholder engagement and resources mobilization.

Revamping Citizen Science portal on United Nations Environment Program's World Environment Situation Room platform.

Hyderabad, Telangana, India

* Citizen Science activities: City Nature Challenge (CNC) City organizer since 2023* Educational activities: Model Conference of Parties, Global Wild Wisdom Challenge, Amateur Naturalist Training program, ECHO (Environment Conservation Heroes) program.* Development programs for tribal communities.

Hyderabad, Telangana, India

* Spearheaded the Hyderabad Annual Tree Survey for flora-fauna mapping in the city.* Created custom web-app for methodologically data collection and R script for easier analysis.* Converted the collected data to Darwin Core for publishing the dataset to GBIF.

Managing the Mozilla Credits Section, improving the recognition and engagement of contributors across the Mozilla community.

* Delivered talks on cutting-edge technologies, including VR, AR, IoT, WebAssembly, and AI, at international conferences like SHA Netherlands, JSFoo Bangalore, and Mozilla TS Meetups (in Paris and Singapore).* Contributed to A-Frame VR development since its birth in 2012, enhancing its functionality and improving user experience across Mozilla’s VR projects.

* Participated in Mozlando Meet Florida 2015 and Mozilla Festival London 2016 as international volunteer. I also represented Mozilla and gave talks at global events, such as WebVR Hawaii and FOSSASIA Singapore.* Led and organized Mozilla communities and events in India and internationally, including Mozilla India Community Meetups and MCR Community Meetups, driving community growth and impact.

* Founded Open Source Open Community, a coding club in NIT Trichy, and conducted various activities to promote open source project contributions.* Firefox OS App Development, Webmaker tools, Army of Awesome & Support Mozilla contributions.* My name got engraved on the Mozilla Monument - https://wiki.mozilla.org/Monument

Jaipur, Rajasthan, India

* Consulting for sustainability and social impact projects keeping ESG (Environment, Social and Governance) in center.* Leading Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) driven projects with measurable social and environmental impact.* Integrating frontier technologies for creative problem solving into various domains.

Los Angeles, California, United States

* Helped increase global CNC participation, with India registering 206 new projects, contributing to the rise from 450 cities in 2023 to over 675 in 2024.* In 2024, the City Nature Challenge in India saw significant growth compared to 2023, with observations increasing by 75% (151,144 up from 86,151), species by 66% (7,925 up from 4,787), identifiers by 8% (1,896 up from 1,763), and observers by 97% (2,626 up from 1,331).* Built an active network of citizen scientists from all states and UTs of India, ensuring geographical, gender and age diversity.* Presented "Celebrating India’s Citizens Collab for City Nature Challenge!" at CitSci-India Symposium.

Mentored students and prepared content for UPSC Indian Forest Service exam as Geology subject specialist.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Worked on Human Wildlife Conflict research.

Hyderabad, Telangana, India

* Conducted and participated in wildlife related activities like Summer waterhole census, Moth week, Campus bird count, Great backyard bird count etc.* Participated in execution of educational activities like Global Wild Wisdom Challenge, Amateur Naturalist Training program, ECHO (Environment Conservation Heroes) program. * Created technological tools for automation and operational efficiencies like Custom AI ChatBot for program students to suggest them with project ideas and for personalized mentorship to teams.

Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Working for Treasury team in Middle Office at D E Shaw.

Worked on Angular JS.

Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, India

Master'S Degree, Computer Applications

Activities and Societies: Open Source Open Community, Spider ClubMCA Student, Founder of OSOC (Open Source Open Community), Member.

Advanced Diploma In Animal Protection Laws Program, Law

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Applications

Higher Secondary Education, Higher Secondary