Academic CV

Academic profile and selected record.

This public web CV summarises the academic record represented on the site. The downloadable public version includes professional contact channels and excludes personal contact details.

Current appointment

Assistant Professor

Centre for Water Policy and Governance
School of Habitat Studies · TISS, Mumbai
Jan 2025–present

Academic profile

IIT Bombay-trained geospatial scientist with research and teaching experience across remote sensing, Earth observation, GIScience, Decision Science, water resources, flood risk, environmental planning and climate-resilient urban and coastal infrastructure.

Selected recognition

Awards and professional development

  • Excellence in PhD Research Award, IIT Bombay, award cycle 2018–2020.
  • Teaching Assistantship Fellowship, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India, 2015–2020.
  • International Travel Grant, American Geophysical Union, USA, 2017 and 2018.
  • Invited Global Student Delegate, Chicago Forum on Global Cities, 2018.

Selected professional-development participation includes RASTER-2023 at IIT Roorkee, the NASA-ISRO SAR Workshop in 2023, a National Institute of Disaster Management programme in 2024, and the UGC Faculty Induction Programme in 2025.