Rajni Jain

Biography

Dr. Rajni Jain obtained the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Jawaharlal Nehru University in 2005.The title of her thesis was “Rough set based Decision Tree Induction for Data Mining. Rajni Jain obtained her M.Sc. degree in the discipline of Computer Application from P.G. School, Indian Agricultural Research Institute in 1991 with a gold medal for her outstanding academic performance. Earlier in 1988, Rajni Jain obtained her B.Sc. degree in Physics Hons. From Hansraj College, Delhi University. Rajni joined as Scientist (Computer Applications) in July 1996 at National Institute of Agricultural Economics and Policy Research (NIAP), India and presently working as Principal Scientist there. Besides, Rajni Jain is faculty member in Post Graduate School, ICARIARI for teaching and guiding students of M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Computer Application. Rajni Jain made important and useful contributions as an agricultural research scientist by developing methodology for development of optimal crop plans and demonstrating it with the help of case studies of some states; data management framework for survey data of farmers; development of decision support systems; information system design and development; developing and maintaining an online information system of agricultural economists (www.agrieconet.nic.in). Rajni Jain has been managing IT requirements of ICAR-NIAP since 1996. Rajni Jain has organized four 21 days training programmes and many short duration training programmes for the capacity development of National Agricultural Research system. Her research interests include applications of data mining techniques and development of decision support systems for agriculture domain, development of optimum models for crop planning at regional level, total factor productivity in agriculture. Rajni Jain has contributed several research papers in national / international journals / conferences / workshops / seminars. Some publications in recent years are listed below.

Research Interest

Agricultural Economics