curriculum vitae
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Education
Ph.D. in Earth Observation & Deep Learning
Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), India · bi-nationally supervised with German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany
Dissertation: deep-learning frameworks for Himalayan glacier and glacial-lake mapping, GLOF risk modeling, and long-term glacier-velocity estimation.
Positions
Postdoctoral Research Associate
University of Wisconsin–Madison · Tellman Lab & Schneider Lab
GeoAI, geospatial foundation models, NISAR polarimetric pipelines, NASA-funded urban flood mapping. Course development for AI for Sustainability and AI for Earth Observation.
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Social-Pixel Lab, University of Arizona
Glacial-lake segmentation benchmarks (GLB), foundation-model fine-tuning, large HPC workflows on the axolotl GPU server.
Postdoctoral Researcher
The Ohio State University · Byrd Polar & Climate Research Center
Earth-observation methods for global mapping of natural (gold) hydrogen sites using multisource remote sensing and deep learning. Produced the first global dataset of potential hydrogen sites.
Awards & Honors
Young Scientist Travel Award ($1,000)
Debris-Cover Glacier Workshop, ISTA Austria
Professional Development / Travel Award ($700)
Office of Postdoctoral Affairs, OSU USA
DAAD Bi-nationally Supervised Doctoral Degree Fellowship (~€24,000)
German Academic Exchange Service
Best Poster Award (Third)
5th International YES Congress, Berlin
INSPIRE Fellowship (~$13,000)
Department of Science & Technology, India
Funding (selected)
Google Satellite Embeddings Dataset Small Grant
Co-recipient · benchmarking foundation models for EO
Co-PI on NSF-funded project
Earth observation & flood-risk research