Other Academia

Dr. Chandan has served as the IEEE GRSS Bangalore chapter in various capacities:

• Executive committee member from 01-Jan-2021 till 31-Dec-2023. 

• He was nominated by the previous slate members of GRSS Bangalore chapter to serve as Secretary of the chapter during 2024-25. 

• Founding Faculty Advisor - NIE IEEE GRSS Student Branch Chapter (SBC96261D), 21-May-2023 to 18-Dec-2024.

• Membership grade elevation to Senior member on 01-Feb-2024.

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Notable Contribution (2021-24)

• SPP presenter, IEEE GRSS Chapter Bangalore Section - “Indian Cities – Spatio temporal evolution and growth analysis using open source Geospatial data” - 29 October 2021.

• Organizing team, IEEE GRSS Student Poster Presentation Competition 2022 (SPP- 2022) and Mapathon, 03-04, June, 2022.

• Organizing team lead, GRSS local YP activity (sponsored by IEEE GRSS) on student hackathon with a theme of "Geospatial Technology for Sustainable Development" (GTSD) online during April 28-30, 2023.

• Co-chair, Track-E, Cyber-physical systems for geoscience and remote sensing, IEEE CONECCT 2023, Bangalore, 14-16 July, 2023.

• Responsible for Inauguration of IEEE GRSS Student Branch Chapter at NIE Mysuru in the capacity of Faculty Advisor, August 8, 2023. 

• Course coordinator, Five-day Online Summer School on New Horizons in Remote Sensing: Basics and Beyond, 08-12, August 2023. 

• Publication Chair, 2023 IEEE India Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (InGARSS) at IIIT Bangalore during December 10-13, 2023.

• Coordinator of Five days FDP on “Emerging Trends in UAV and Practical Applications” held during 16-20, Jan, 2024 funded by IEEE GRSS Bangalore Section and Department of Civil Engineering, The National Institute of Engineering (NIE), Mysuru. 

• For more information of events conducted during Jan - Dec, 2024 Click here

1. “Best Paper Award” Research for Transport and Logistics Industry (R4TLI), 2022, Colombo. Madumita D., Prakash P.S., Chandan M. C., Bharath H. A. (2022). Land-use Change Dynamics and Automated Feature Extraction Using High-resolution Satellite Imagery. 

2. Land Use/Cover Changes, Environment and Emissions in South/Southeast Asia – An International Regional Science Meeting: Invited to attend meeting and young researchers training and present poster as a part of the NASA LULC Change program in-conjunction with South/Southeast Asia Research Initiative and collaboration with several international partners including NIES Japan, GOFC-GOLD, GEOGLAM, NASA SERVIR, University of Maryland College Park USA, held at the Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Johor Bahru, Johor, Malaysia, July 22-27, 2019.

3. Awarded full travel grant from IIT Kharagpur to present research paper at 16th International Conference – CUPUM, Wuhan, China (2019) and Fall Meeting, AGU, Washington, D.C, USA (2018).

4. Awarded a full travel grant from CSIR to conduct an invited workshop titled “Land use change modelling using cellular automata based SLEUTH” in FOSS4G Asia conference, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka during 2-5 December, 2018.

5. “Sahyadri Ecologist Award” for research paper presentation co-authored by Dr. Bharath H. A. in LAKE Conference, Moodbidri, Organised by CES, IISc and Alva's institute of engineering and technology, during 22-25 November, 2018.

6. “Best Paper Award” in the International Symposium on Water Urbanism and Infrastructure Development in Eco-Sensitive Zones, held on 6-7 January 2017, Kolkata.

7. Qualified as “Lead Trainer” for supervisor structure (Level-6) conducted by construction skill development council of India (CSDCI) and certified by national skill development corporation (NSDC) – July 2016.

8. Awarded grade “A” in a three credit course “Environment Management” conducted by CCE, IISc during September – December 2014.

9. Received a fellowship for pursuing post-graduation education and doctoral research by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Govt. of India.

10. Qualified and secured rank in graduate aptitude test in engineering (GATE) - 2013.

• FOSS4G Asia 2024 conference, Srinakharinwirot University, Bangkok, Thailand – Workshop instructor – “Web-Based Spatial Decision Support System (SDSS) Using Geoserver” - 15 December, 2024.

• OSGeo Korean Chapter – Workshop instructor – “Urban modelling using cellular automata-based SLEUTH” – 12-Nov-2020.

• MHRD, Government of India - Teaching assistant – “Geographic Information Systems” – 27-Jan – 17-Apr-2020.

• AICTE, IISC-Bangalore - Invited speaker – “FOSS4G for Natural Resources Management” - 27-31 May, 2019.

• AICTE, IIT Kharagpur – Hands-on session trainer – “FOSS for Urban Planning” - 27-31 May, 2019.

•  FOSS4G Asia and University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. Funded by CSIR, Government of India - Workshop instructor – “FOSS4G Asia conference” - 02-05 Dec, 2018.

• CiSTUP, Indian Institute of Science, ISRO and OSGEO -India - Member of the organizing committee and hands-on trainer – “FOSS4G for urban environment applications” - 1-5 Apr, 2015.

Short Term Courses / FDP / SDP Organized: 

1. Coordinator of Five days FDP on “Emerging Trends in UAV and Practical Applications” held during 16-20, Jan, 2024 funded by IEEE GRSS Bangalore Section and Department of Civil Engineering, The National Institute of Engineering (NIE), Mysuru.

2. Coordinator of Five days FDP on “Research Insights in Civil Engineering (RICE-2023)” held during 24-28, July, 2023 funded by Department of Civil Engineering, The National Institute of Engineering, Mysuru.

3. Coordinator of Five days Summer School/SDP on “New Horizons in Remote Sensing: Basics and Beyond” held during 08-12, Aug, 2023 funded by IEEE GRSS Bangalore Section and Department of Civil Engineering, NIE, Mysuru.

4. Coordinator of one day National webinar on “Floodplain analysis and Mapping” held during 08, Oct, 2021 funded by DHI India and Department of Civil Engineering, NIE, Mysuru.

Certificate Courses: 

1. Certified IUCEE International Engineering Educator Certification Program, Spring 2024.

2. Successfully completed ISRO sponsored course on “Urban Flood Modelling in a Changing Climate” at BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus, June, 2024.

3. Successfully completed “Programming for Everybody (Getting Started with Python)” an online non-credit course authorized by University of Michigan and offered through Coursera, Apr, 2024.

4. Successfully completed two weeks course on “Remote Sensing and GIS Applications in Agricultural Water Management” sponsored by IIRS, Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), Sep, 2023.

5. Qualified NPTEL-AICTE 12 Weeks FDP on “NBA Accreditation and Teaching and Learning in Engineering (NATE)”, Jan-Apr, 2022. 

6. Awarded grade “A” in a three credit course “Environment Management” conducted by CCE, IISc during September – December 2014.

Short Term Courses / FDP / Workshop Participated: 

1. Participated in three-day hands-on training session on use of remote sensing and GIS for land cover/land use change applications including atmospheric impact studies. Organized by NASA-SARI and University of Technology Malaysia, Johor Bahru, Malaysia, 25-27 July, 2019.

2. Nimish, G., Chandan, M. C., Bharath., H.A., (2018). Monitoring and modelling of spatiotemporal change in land use and understanding its impact on land surface temperature. In proceedings of International Workshop on Biodiversity & Climate Change, Kharagpur: 24- 27 February 2018.

3. Participated in workshop on “Imaging Science for Art Conservation and Archaeology”, Organized by Nottingham Trent University, Curtin University and IIT Kharagpur on 11-12 December 2017.

4. Participated in international workshop on “Big Data for Better Governance”, jointly organised by IIT-Kharagpur and British Deputy High Commission Kolkata on 28-29 November 2017.

5. Attended a hands-on training workshop on “MATLAB”, conducted by Department of Mechanical Engg., NIE, Mysore, funded by TEQIP-II on 10-11 November 2016.

6. Participated in one-day training programme on “ISRO Satellite Remote Sensing Based Societal Applications on the Web”, conducted by Department of Civil Engg., NIE, Mysore and RRSC-ISRO, funded by TEQIP-II on 27 October 2016.

7. Attended “International Workshop on Remote Sensing Image Analysis”, conducted by DST and IIT-Bombay on 16-18 April 2016.

8. Actively participated in “Workshop on Mega-regional development and environmental change in India and China”, conducted at IISc in May 2015.

9. Attended a five-day training workshop on “Western ghats biodiversity” using free and open source software for Geospatial technology (FOSS4G) conducted by Indian Institute of Science and OSGEO-India in February 2014.

10. Successfully completed GIS training program on “Introduction to ArcGIS desktop” conducted by ESRI-India, December 2013.

11. Attended a two-day workshop on “Geo-informatics for water and coastal engineering” sponsored by TEQIP-II, September 2013.