PhD (Aug 2021– July 2025)
Earth System Science
Centre for Ocean, River, Atmosphere and Land Sciences (CORAL)
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
Integrated M. Tech in Geoinformatics (Jul 2016– June 2021)
Department of Geoinformatics, School of Natural Resource Management, Central University of Jharkhand, Ranchi, Jharkhand
[9.39/10]
XII (Intermediate), Science (PCBM), (2013– 2015)
Techno Mission International School, CBSE Board, Bhagalpur, Bihar
[88.8%]
X (Matriculation), 2013
St. Joseph’s School, ICSE Board, Banka, Bihar
[87.84%]
Technical Skills
· Geospatial Softwares: ArcGIS, QGIS, ERDAS Imagine, ENVI, SNAP, GRASS GIS, and Google Earth Pro
· Cloud-based Geospatial Analysis: Google Earth Engine (GEE)
· Programming: R-Programming, Python, C, C++, JAVA,
· Modeling: LPJ-GUESS Model, InVEST, I-Tree Eco Model, Phenology Models, Radiative Transfer Modeling, HYSPLIT and SWAT
· Machine/Deep Learning: Decision Tree Models (Random Forest, XGBoost), Regression Models (MLR, SVM), and Causal Inference (Granger Causality, PCMCI)
· Data Handling: Satellite remote sensing (optical, thermal, microwave, hyperspectral), Ground-based measurements (vegetation and meteorological), Reanalysis (GLDAS, FLDAS, ERA, MERRA, etc) and Model simulations
· Instruments Handling: Hand-held Chlorophyll Fluorometer, Forest Range Finder, Hand-held InfraRed Temperature Gun, Hand-held Automated Weather Station (AWS), Hand-held GPS, DGPS, Levels, Theodolites, and EDM
Experiences
A. Research Experiences
Institute Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, Karnataka, India. TIMELINE: JULY 2026 – till date
2. Research Associate at Centre for Climate Change Research (CCCR), Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), Pune, India, Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES), Government of India. TIMELINE: SEPTEMBER 2025–JULY 2026 (10 months).
3. Prime Minister’s Research Fellow (PMRF) Doctoral Scholar at Centre for Ocean, River, Atmosphere and Land Sciences (CORAL), Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, West Bengal, India. TIMELINE: AUGUST 2022–AUGUST 2025 (3 years).
4. Institute Doctoral Scholar at Centre for Ocean, River, Atmosphere and Land Sciences (CORAL), Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, West Bengal, India. TIMELINE: AUGUST 2021–AUGUST 2022 (1 year).
5. Master of Technology (M. Tech) Project Researcher at Department of Geoinformatics (DGI), School of Natural Resource Management (SNRM), Central University of Jharkhand (CUJ), Ranchi, Jharkhand, India. TIMELINE: AUGUST 2020–JUNE 2021 (1 year).
6. Bachelor of Technology (B. Tech) Project Researcher at Department of Geoinformatics (DGI), School of Natural Resource Management (SNRM), Central University of Jharkhand (CUJ), Ranchi, Jharkhand, India. TIMELINE: AUGUST 2020–JUNE 2021 (6 months).
B. Internships:
Intern at Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) Ranchi branch on “Variation of Black Carbon Aerosol with respect to various meteorological events” in May 2018.
2. Project intern at Jharkhand Space Application Centre (JSAC) Ranchi on “Facility mapping of Palamu district Jharkhand” in June 2018.
3. Research Intern at Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IITG) in Earth System Science and Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering on “The Application of Remote Sensing and Image Analysis in the detection of Hydrocarbon Microseepage” in June– July 2019.
C. Seminars and Workshops:
1. School of Climate Change 2021, Oxford Climate Society, Oxford University, UK.
2. World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) workshop on “Attribution of multi annual to decadal change in the climate system” sponsored and contributed by World Meteorological Organization (WMO), Intergovernmental Oceanic Commission of UNESO (IOC– UNESCO) and International Science Council (ISC).
3. Global Youth Climate Summit 2021 organised by Bangladesh Youth Leadership Centre
4. 2nd Intercontinental Geoinformation Days, 2021, Mersin, Turkey
5. 2nd International Conference on Climate Change, 2021, Kula Lumpur, Malaysia
6. International Symposium on Water Sustainability: Challenges, Technologies and Opportunities, IWSS– 2021, Amrita’s UNESCO Chair in Experiential Learning for Sustainable Innovation and Development, Amrita School for Sustainable Development, and India Water Partnership (IWP).
7. Webinar with Taylor and Francis: Increasing the visibility and impact of your research. EURAAXESS Worldwide, 2021.
8. Successfully completed online course: "Nature– based Solutions for Disaster and Climate Resilience" developed by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the PEDRR (Partnership for Environment and Disaster Risk Reduction), Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Academy, European Union (EU).
9. IEEE GRSS & ISPRS Young Professionals and Students Consortium Summer School, Brazil, 2020.
10. TROPMET– 2020, National virtual Symposium on Weather and Climate services over Mountainous Regions, Indian Meteorological Society (IMS) & North East Space Application Centre (NESAC), 2020.
11. ISRSNS 2020, National Symposium on Remote Sensing for Environment Monitoring & Climate Change Assessment: Opportunities and Challenges, Indian Society of Remote Sensing (ISRS) & Indian Society of Geomatics (ISG), 2020.
12. Workshop on Arc GIS organized by ESRI, Department of Geoinformatics (DGI), Central University of Jharkhand (CUJ), Ranchi, 2018.
13. Indian National Science Congress 104, Sri Venkateshwara University (SVU), Tirupati, 2017.
D. Journal Roles:
1. Community Reviewer for Forest and Ecosystem Remote Sensing section of Frontiers in Remote Sensing (IF:3.5)
2.Reviewer for journals:
1. Nature Communications (Nature Portfolio Journal, IF: 18.1)
2. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (Elsevier, IF:12.9)
3. Global Change Biology (Willey, IF:12.5)
4. Journal of Cleaner Production (Elsevier, IF:10.7)
5. Communications Earth and Environment (Nature Portfolio Journal, IF:9.3)
6. Ecological Indicators (Elsevier, IF:8.7)
7. Earth’s Future (AGU, IF:8.5)
8. Environmental Research (Elsevier, IF:8.2)
9. Carbon Balance and Management (BMC, Springer Nature, IF:7.0)
10. Cities (Elsevier, IF:7.0)
11. GIScience and Remote Sensing (Taylor & Francis, IF:6.8)
12. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology (Elsevier, IF:6.6)
13. Environmental and Sustainability Indicators (Elsevier, IF:5.5)
14. Geo-spatial Information Science (Taylor & Francis, IF:5.4)
15. Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment (Elsevier, IF:4.9)
16. International Journal of Digital Earth (Taylor & Francis, IF:4.9)
17. Scientific Reports (Springer Nature, IF:4.9)
18. Environmental Development (Elsevier, IF:4.8)
19. Geocarto International (Taylor & Francis, IF:3.9)
20. Discover Applied Sciences (Springer Nature, IF: 3.8)
21. European Journal of Remote Sensing (Taylor & Francis, IF:3.7)
22. Ecosystem Health and Sustainability (Science Partner Journal, AAAS, IF:3.6)
23. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment (Springer Nature, IF:3.6)
24. Journal of Hydrometeorology (AMS, IF: 3.3)
25. Theoretical and Applied Climatology (Springer Nature, IF:3.2)
26. Ecology and Evolution (Willey, IF:2.6)
27. Pure and Applied Geophysics (Springer Nature, IF:2.1)
28. Journal of Earth System Science (Indian Academy of Sciences & Springer Nature, IF: 2.1)
29. Journal of Sustainable Forestry (Taylor & Francis, IF:1.2)
30. BMC Environmental Science (Springer Nature)
E. Professional Memberships:
· American Geophysical Union (AGU, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026)
· European Geophysical Union (EGU, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026)
· FLUXNET Early Career Network (ECN, 2024, 2025,2026)
· New Phytologist (NP, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026)
· Ecological Society of America (ESA, 2024, 2025)
· Oxford Climate Society (OCS, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026)
· IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS, 2024, 2025)
· AsiaFlux (2023, 2024, 2025,2026)
· Indian Society of Remote Sensing (ISRS, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024)
· Indian Society of Geomatics (ISG, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024)
· Indian Meteorological Society (IMS, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025)
· GIS Academia Council of India (GACI, 2026; invited)
Achievements
• National Postdoctoral Fellowship (NPDF) by Anushandhan National Research Foundation (ANRF) for Postdoctoral Research by Ministry of Education, Government of India (2026 to 2 years: yet to join)
• Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship (IPDF) by Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, India for Postdoctoral research (July 2026 to July 2027: currently joined)
• Prime Minister’s Research Fellow (PMRF) for Doctoral Research by Ministry of Education, Government of India (1 August 2022–1 August 2025)
• PhD Institute fellowship from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (2 August 2021–2 August 2026)
• Qualified for the MSCA- Postdoctoral Fellowship (PF), European Horizon Call for 2025
• Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Grant to attend European Geoscience Union (EGU) General Assembly, Vienna, Austria (May 3–8, 2026)
• AsiaFlux Early Career Grant to attend AsiaFlux 2025 Conference, Pangkalan Kerinci, Riau, Indonesia, October 20–25,2025)
• Advanced Machine Learning for Earth System Modeling (AML-ESM) Early Career Researcher Grant, International Centre for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS), Bengaluru, India (July 7–18, 2025)
• Prime Minister’s Research Fellow (PMRF) Annual Research Grant (2024–2025) to attend American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, (December 9–13, 2024)
• IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS) Grant to attend InGARSS (December 2–5, 2024)
• 100% Tuition fee waiver to attend 7th Training Course on “New Advances in Land Carbon Modelling” organized by School of Integrative Plant Sciences, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University, USA. (June 3–14, 2024)
• IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS) Kolkata Chapter sponsored Young Professionals (YP) Field Data Collection Trip in Orissa (June 16–17, 2024)
• 1st position in Oral Presentation at Research Scholar’s Day at CORAL, IIT Kharagpur (January 12, 2024)
• 1st position in Poster Presentation at Research Scholar’s Day at CORAL, IIT Kharagpur (January 12, 2024)
• Prime Minister’s Research Fellow (PMRF) Annual Research Grant (2023–2024) to attend American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, (December 11–15, 2023)
• Prime Minister’s Research Fellow (PMRF) Annual Research Grant (2022–2023) to attend European Geoscience Union (EGU) General Assembly (April 23–28,2023)
• Designated as Climate Advocate at FXB Climate Advocate Spring 2022, FXB, USA
• Qualified for International Aptitude Competition (IAC) with 70% score and 99th rank among participants from 12 countries, 2022
• Invitation to the Green Zone of Conference of the Parties (COP26), United Nations (UN) Framework Convention on Climate Change, 2021, Glasgow, Scotland.
• Qualified for 2nd round of the Annual International Astronomy and Physics Competition, 2021 (AIAPC21)
• Selected as a member of 1K delegate community at the Global Youth Climate Summit 2021 organised by Bangladesh Youth Leadership Centre
• 2nd prize in quiz competition of GEOHORIZON 2021, Society of Geoinformatics Engineers, College of Engineering, Guindy, Chennai
• Qualified University Grant Commission (UGC) National Eligibility Test (NET) – (Assistant Professor), (Geography), JUNE– 2020
Speaker/Resource Person
4-day workshop on “Remote Sensing for Carbon-Climate Relationships” by INDACA-Institute of skills with hands-on training across multiple data handling platforms during January 3,4 and 10,11, 2026 (virtual sessions, 8 hours)
4-day workshop on “Remote Sensing for Land-Atmosphere Interactions” by INDACA-Institute of skills with hands-on training across multiple data handling platforms during September 13,14 and 20,21, 2025 (virtual sessions, 8 hours)
Positions of Responsibility
Organizing committee of World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) Early-Mid Career Researchers (EMCR) hub’s workshop at Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune (November, 21, 2025)
Core Committee Member for Organisation of Research Scholar’s (RS) Day at CORAL, IIT Kharagpur (January 12, 2024) part of team of 5 organizing event for around 80 scholars
Head for Literary Events at Techno-Cultural fest-– NAVADHAR at Central University of Jharkhand, (February, 14–15, 2019) team leader leading 16 co-heads for organizing event for over 200 participants
Core Committee Member for Organisation of Techno-Cultural fest-– NAVADHAR at Central University of Jharkhand, (February, 14–15, 2019) part of team of 15 organizing event for over 2000 participants
·Class representatives (CR) for Integrated M. Tech, Geoinformatics batch (2016–2021) at Central University of Jharkhand, (August 2016–June 2019) for a batch of 32 students.
Teaching Experiences
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (As Teaching Assistant)
· Climate Risk in Agriculture (PhD. /M. Tech, Earth System Science, 2023–2025, 18 hours)
· DIY Project (B. Tech/ BS across disciplines, 2023–2024, 36 hours)
Hijli College/ Vidyasagar University (As PMRF external Teaching Responsibility) [2022–2025, 150 hours]
· Remote Sensing and GIS (B.Sc.., Geography)
· Natural Resource Management (B.Sc./BA across disciplines, introduced)
· Cartographic Techniques (B.Sc., Geography)
· Disaster Management (B.Sc., Geography)
· Natural Resource and Disaster Management (B.Sc./BA across disciplines, introduced)
· Fundamentals of Computing (B.Sc./BA across disciplines)
· Research Methodology (B.Sc./BA across disciplines)