Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence for Earth Resource Management

Dr. Deepak Kumar is an early career academic research professional with a multidisciplinary academic background in geospatial sciences, computational sciences, climate change, and sustainability with over 10 years of experience. Dr Kumar has been working in interdisciplinary research towards the urban–climate–energy nexus to advance policies considering humanities, social science, and technology perspectives. Presently, he is working as a Research Scientist at the Center of Excellence in Weather and Climate Analytics, Atmospheric Science Research Center (ASRC), State University of New York at Albany, New York (United States). He has been also associated as a full-time Assistant Professor with Amity University, Uttar Pradesh, Noida (India). He has been revisiting a wide range of issues associated with traditional research activities in the intersection area of remote sensing and geoinformatics, environment, energy, climate change, urban weather and climate modelling, analysis, and visualization. He has wide experience in research pipeline embracing idea conceptualization, research design, data collection, processing, analysis and result generation. He completed two government-sponsored research projects sponsored as a sole principal investigator, supervised cross-functional research group of 4 PhD and 29 postgraduate students, and conducted 15 academic, research, and industrial visits for undergraduate students. He has published 50+ research articles in a high-impact web of science/Scopus-indexed international journals by Elsevier, Springer, Taylor & Francis, Emerald, SAGE, and Wiley publications. He has reviewed more than 220+ research articles as an ad hoc/adjunct/invited reviewer or editorial board member for high-impact factor journals published by IEEE, Elsevier, Springer Nature, Taylor & Francis Group, Wiley, SAGE, Emerald, and MDPI. He has authored/edited/co-edited 9 books with Elsevier, Springer, Taylor & Francis, Emerald, SAGE, and Wiley publications. He has been dedicated to finding solutions to complex problems in the areas of climate change, urban planning, energy, the environment, and sustainability (SDGs 7, 10, 11, and 13).

Dr. Tavishi Tewary has over 16 years of experience in policy research and trade impact assessment. She has published various research papers in international journals of high repute. She has academic experience teaching postgraduate business school students. She also has experience in providing scientific leadership to high-profile strategic sustainability and conservation initiatives with several years of research experience. She managed cross-sectoral and interdisciplinary teams of professionals to deliver on complex research projects. Currently, she is working as an Assistant Professor at FORE School of Management, New Delhi (India). Her area of interest covers international trade analysis, sustainability, international economics, socioeconomic development, energy, circular economy, and Industry 4.0. She has presented several research papers at international and national conferences on these topics. She has authored a book on circular economy with a publisher of international repute. She has also conducted FDPs on data analysis using SPSS, PLS-SEM, and EViews. Also, she has experience in providing scientific leadership to high-profile strategic sustainability and conservation initiatives with several years of research experience.

Dr. Sulochana Shekhar is the Dean of the School of Earth Sciences at the Central University of Tamil Nadu, Thiruvarur, India. Her research interests include urban geography and the application of remote sensing and geospatial techniques in urban environments. She has worked on cellular automata-based urban growth models and urban sprawl assessment using entropy for her doctoral research. Object-based image analysis was the main theme of her postdoctoral research at ITC, the Netherlands. She has previously worked on projects involving spatial decision support systems for slums (UCL, UK) and extraction of slums and urban green space using object-based image analysis (UTAS, Australia). She has completed major funded projects on housing the urban poor (HUDCO) and the environmental impact of urbanization (UGC Major) using geospatial techniques. She has collaborated with Cambridge University, UK and completed the UKIERI research project on the interactive spatial decision support system for managing public health.