Biswajeet Pradhan (born 1975) is a spatial scientist, modeller, author and who is now working as a Distinguished Professor and the founding Director of the Centre for Advanced Modelling and Geo-spatial Information Systems (CAMGIS),[1] Faculty of Engineering and IT [2] at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia. He is working primarily in the fields of remote sensing, geographic information systems (GIS), complex modelling, machine learning and Artificial intelligence (AI) based algorithms and their application to natural hazards, natural resources and environmental problems. Many of his research outputs were put into practice. His research platform is mainly Asia and Australia, and he has been sharing his findings worldwide. He is also a permanent resident of Australia and Malaysia.

Professor Biswajeet Pradhan
Born1975
NationalityIndiaIndian
EducationBerhampur University

Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

Dresden University of Technology

Universiti Putra Malaysia
OccupationProfessor
EmployerUniversity of Technology Sydney
Known forRemote Sensing

Geographic information system

Geospatial predictive modeling

Natural hazard
TitleDirector, CAMGIS
SpouseSheila Patel
ChildrenKrish Pradhan & Darsh Pradhan

Education

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Biswajeet Pradhan received his Bachelor of Science (Hons.) from the Berhampur University in Odisha, India, in 1995. Then, he furthered his studies at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Bombay,[3] India. There, he was awarded a Master of Science in Remote Sensing/Applied Geology, in 1998. Later, he was awarded Master of Technology in Civil Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur, India and Dresden University of Technology, Germany. He was awarded a PhD in 2006 in Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and Geomatics from the Universiti Putra Malaysia.[3] In 2011, he has been awarded a Habilitation qualification in Remote Sensing from Dresden University of Technology (Germany), the highest academic qualification in several European countries.[4]

Early career (1998-2010)

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Pradhan started his career as a Research Scientist with research at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur and Dresden University of Technology, Germany from 1998 to 2002 serving for 2 years consecutively in each institution.[3] In 2002, he was employed as a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Civil Engineering, Asian Institute of Medicine, Science and Technology, Malaysia. Here he was involved in teaching and research activities on new compression algorithms for laser scanning data.[5] From 2005 to 2007, he was the Senior Manager at Cilix Corporation, Malaysia, where he undertook research and supervised R&D projects for the Malaysian Center for Remote Sensing under the Ministry of Science and Technology.[3] Concurrently in 2007, he joined UPM as a research associate at the Institute of Advanced Technology.[6] In 2008, he was awarded an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship and spent two years at TU-Dresden (Germany) where he undertook research to develop geospatial modelling tools for landslide hazard and risk assessment [4]

Career in Malaysia and Australia (2011- till date)

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Pradhan has been an active researcher and university professor (full), actively supervising postgraduate students and projects.[6][7]

In 2010, Pradhan joined the Universiti of Putra Malaysia (UPM) as associate professor and promoted to a full professor in 2017. He was also the principal researcher at Geo-spatial Information Science Research Centre (GISRC), UPM.[6]

Since September 2017, Pradhan is a research-only academic at the University of Technology Sydney. He is the founding director of Centre for Advanced Modelling and Geo-spatial Information Systems (CAMGIS).[8] Biswajeet Pradhan leads a multi-disciplinary research at CAMGIS focusing on advanced spatial modelling, remote sensing, artificial intelligence (AI) applied to natural hazards and other environmental and urban problems.

Achievements

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He has been awarded as Highly Cited Researcher in the field of computer science for four years,[9] with h-index of over 95.[10] He was awarded the 2018 World Class Professor Award[11] by the Indonesian Ministry of Research, Technology and Higher Education. In 2017, he was awarded with the Research Star Award by the Malaysian Ministry of Education.[12] In recognition of his research excellence and important contributions to remote sensing and GIS, he was nominated as an Ambassador Scientist for the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Germany)[13] to oversee research and networking opportunities between Germany and southeast Asian countries. He has been an invited keynote speaker and forum panel member for remote sensing scientific events both internationally[14] and nationally[15] on several occasions.

Selected works

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Journals

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Books

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References

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  1. ^ "Centre for Advanced Modelling and Geospatial lnformation Systems (CAMGIS) | University of Technology Sydney". www.uts.edu.au. 2 November 2018. Archived from the original on 2021-03-23. Retrieved 2019-04-26.
  2. ^ "Information, Systems and Modelling | University of Technology Sydney". www.uts.edu.au. 21 August 2013. Archived from the original on 2021-03-23. Retrieved 2019-04-29.
  3. ^ a b c d "Journal of Mountain Science, Springer". jms.imde.ac.cn. Retrieved 2019-01-10.
  4. ^ a b "Humboldt Network". service.humboldt-foundation.de. Archived from the original on 2021-03-23. Retrieved 2019-01-15.
  5. ^ Pradhan, Biswajeet (July 2006). PhD Thesis. psasir.upm.edu.my (phd). Universiti Putra Malaysia. Archived from the original on 2021-03-23. Retrieved 2019-01-25.
  6. ^ a b c "Universiti Putra Malaysia". upm.edu.my. Archived from the original on 2019-02-09. Retrieved 2019-01-25.
  7. ^ "Centre for Advanced Modelling and Geospatial lnformation Systems (CAMGIS) | University of Technology Sydney". www.uts.edu.au. 3 November 2016. Archived from the original on 2020-09-29. Retrieved 2019-04-29.
  8. ^ "Centre for Advanced Modelling and Geospatial lnformation Systems (CAMGIS) | University of Technology Sydney". www.uts.edu.au. 2 November 2018. Archived from the original on 2021-03-23. Retrieved 2019-04-29.
  9. ^ "Professor Biswajeet Pradhan's Publons profile". publons.com. Retrieved 2021-03-23.
  10. ^ "Biswajeet Pradhan (SMIEEE) - Google Scholar Citations". scholar.google.com. Archived from the original on 2021-03-19. Retrieved 2019-05-02.
  11. ^ ims. "World Class Professor 2018 Program Kicks off at Unsyiah – Tsunami and Disaster Mitigation Research Center (TDMRC)". Archived from the original on 2021-03-19. Retrieved 2019-04-29.
  12. ^ "Recognizing the Malaysian Research Stars 2017". Clarivate. 2017-10-18. Retrieved 2019-04-29.
  13. ^ "Ambassador Scientists". www.humboldt-foundation.de. Retrieved 2019-04-29.
  14. ^ "CAJG - 2nd Conference of the Arabian Journal of Geosciences- Springer". www.cajg.org. Archived from the original on 2021-03-19. Retrieved 2019-05-02.
  15. ^ Sathyamoorthy, D.; Pradhan, B.; Chet, K. Voon; Chuah, H. T. (June 2017). "IEEE GRSS Malaysia Chapter [Chapters]". IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine. 5 (2): 100–102. doi:10.1109/MGRS.2017.2689158. ISSN 2168-6831. Archived from the original on 2021-03-19. Retrieved 2021-03-19.
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