Research Group

Tanaya Sarmah (Awarded) (Autumn  2016 -Spring 2021)

Area of Research: Disaster Research -Urban Floods 

Qualification: M.U.R.P. (Town & Regional Planning)

Thesis Title: A Methodology for Prioritizing Critical Infrastructures for Urban Flood-Prone Areas: A Case of Guwahati, Assam

Current job: Assistant Professor at Indian Institute of Technology ROORKEE

Chandan M C (Awarded) (Spring  2016 -Spring 2021)

Area of Research: Urban pattern data mining and Modelling

Qualification: M. Tech. (Remote sensing and GIS)

Thesis Title: Urban Land Use Modelling and Developing a Framework of Spatial Decision Support System for Indian Cities

Current job: Assistant Professor at National Institute of Technology Suratkal

Prakash P S (Awarded) (Spring 2017- Autumn 2021)

Area of Research: Building extraction using deep learning methods

Qualification: M. Tech. (Remote sensing and GIS)

Thesis Title: Urban Structure Extraction Using Soft Computing Techniques

Current Job: Research Associate, Irish centre for high end computing (ICHEC), NUI Galway

Nimish Gupta (Awarded) (Autumn 2017- Autumn 2022) 

Area of Research: Land surface temperature modelling

Qualification: M. Tech. (Environmental Science and Technology)

Thesis Title: Estimating and Forecasting Land Surface Temperature Responses to Altering Urban Landscape

Current Job: Senior Associate in the Adaptation and Risk Analysis team at CSTEP

Ram Thilak  (Autumn 2018-)

Area of Research: Hyperspectral image segmentation and classification 

Qualification: M.Tech, Remote Sensing and Geographic Information System

Email:ramthilak@iitkgp.ac.in

Current Job: Assistant Professor, Reva institute of Technology 

Aniruddha Khatua (Autumn 2021-Autumn 2025)

Area of Research: Transport Emission analysis using RS techniques 

Qualification: M.Tech, Remote Sensing and Geographic Information System

Thesis Title: Developing Deep Learning-Based Methods for Enhanced Integration of Land Use and Transportation Model

Current Job: Assitant Professor, SGT University

Anita Gautam (Autumn 2021 -)

Area of Research: Urban Remote Sensing

Qualification: M.Tech, Remote Sensing 

Email: gautama076@kgpian.iitkgp.ac.in

 Anurag Aman Kaushal  (Autumn 2021-)

Area of Research: Scientific validation of Vastu Shastra through Building IEQ and Energy Efficiency Studies

Qualification: M.ARCH, SCHOOL OF PLANNING AND ARCHITECTURE, BHOPAL

Thesis Title: Thermal Comfort in Vastu Compliant vs Vastu Non Compliant Residential Buildings: Development of a Vastu Based Assessment Framework

Current Job: Assistant Professor, SPA Bhopal

Rajesh Singh Rana (Autumn 2024 -)

Area of Research: Land Surface temperature and Heat

Qualification: M.Sc, REMOTE SENSING & GIS 

Email: rajeshsr.24@kgpian.iitkgp.ac.in 

Apratim Bhattacharya ( Autumn 2024 -)

Area of Research: Urban Sensing and development of onboard analytics

Qualification: M.Tech, Infrastructure Design and Management, IIT Kharagpur

M.Tech, Geoinformatics, IIEST Shibpur

Email: apratimbhat.24@kgpian.iitkgp.ac.in

Sukanya Mukherjee ( Autumn 2025 -)

Area of Research: Flood Analytics and Hazard 

Qualification:  M. Sc, Geography,  University of Calcutta

M. Tech, Remote Sensing and GIS, Indian Institute of Remote Sensing

Email: SUKANYAM10425@KGPIAN.IITKGP.AC.IN