
Disaster Extreme and Environmental Remote Sensing


Disaster Extreme and Environmental Remote Sensing

Dr. Dericks P. Shukla
Dr. Dericks Praise Shukla is currently Chairperson and associate professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Mandi. He has completed his Ph.D. in Remote sensing and GIS from University of Delhi in 2012 titled “Arsenic and heavy metal contamination and its remediation”. Earlier, he has completed his bachelor in science from Ewing Christian College University of Allahabad and postgraduation from Jiwaji University in Remote Sensing and GIS. Before Joining IIT Mandi as assistant professor, he has worked as assistant Professor at Department of Geology and Ram Lal Anand College University of Delhi from August 2011- January 2015 and environmental consultant at J.M. EnviroNet for period of 4 years. Dr. Dericks have currently co-authored and published 44 research work in reputed journal and 15 full papers in books, book chapter and conference proceedings. His hIndex is 18 with as total citations of 1553. He has supervised three Ph.D. students and currently eight Ph.D. students are working under his guidance.
Team
Harsimranjit Kaur Romana
Phd Scholar (2019-present)
Interest: Environmental pollution and its relation
Ipshita Priyadarsini Pradhan
Phd Scholar (2021-present)
Interest: Mapping and Monitoring the Permafrost Distribution of Indian Himalayan
Priyanka Gupta
Phd Scholar (2021-present)
Interest: Mapping and Monitoring the Forest Fire Distribution of Indian Himalayan
Nitesh Dhiman
Phd Scholar (2021-present)
Interest: Analysing the slope stability conditions along the geological thrust areas
Ankit Singh
Phd Scholar (2022-present)
Interest: Landslide Susceptibility and risk analysis
Kirti Kumar Mahanta
Phd Scholar (2022-present)
Interest: Permafrost distribution and its geophysical characterstics

Meenakshi Kumari
Phd Scholar (2022-present), Scientist at CSIR-IHBT Palampur
Interest: Species mapping using hyperspectral imaging

Pooja Sharma
Phd Scholar (2023-present)
Interest: Socio-economic and psychological impacts of natural disasters.

Neetu
Phd Scholar (2023-present)
Interest: Glacial dynamics and ecology

Bhawna Pathak
Phd Scholar (2024-present)
Interest: GLOF monitoring and casacading effect

Apoorva Singh
Phd Scholar (2024-present)
Interest: Forest fire mapping in north-eastern Himalayas (tentative)
Alumni
Dr. Sharad Kumar Gupta (2015-2020)
Scientist at Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Dr. Munmun baisantry (2017-2022)
Scientist at Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO)

Dr. Niraj KC (2018-2023)
Assistant Professor , Paschimanchal Campus, Tribhuvan University, IoE, Pokhara, Nepal
Past Members
1. Nishant Tiwari (Phd in Penn State University, USA)
3. Ashutosh Laxman Taral (PhD in Finland)
2. Ajeet Rai (Phd at IIT Guwahati)
4. Akshay Bansal (Ms Erasmusmundus)
Project Staff
1. Shefali Bhardwaj (Currently pursuing PhD in Australia)
2. Neetu Singh
Dissertation and Interns
MSc Dissertations
1. Simran Arora
2. Albert
3. Suneet
4. Aman Rai
5. Ayushi Pandey
6. Maithli Joshi (GIS analyst at ESRI)
7. Adhrija Dawn (GIS analyst at ESRI)
8. Piyush Malvi
9. Tahira U (MS Erasmusmundus)
10. Alka Dash (Phd at Newfoundland University, Canada)
11. Bobita Pati
12. Sampriti Bhuyan
Interns
1. Muskan Jhunjwala
2. Vanshika Gupta
3. Shaleen Guleria
4. Anne Marrie
5. Balaji
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