GRSS IDEA Event

Dr. Gulab Singh is currently an Associate Professor with CSRE, IIT Bombay. His main research interests in Cryosphere and Radar Polarimetry include radar remote sensing of water stored in snowpack and glaciers regions, radar polarimetry and polarimetric SAR data decomposition, and inversion and SAR tomography techniques. He served as lead organizer of the 2-Days Microwave Remote Sensing Workshop at CSRE IIT Bombay (2015), lead organizer of 1-day BRICS workshop on “Remote Sensing of Cryosphere” under Diamond Jubilee event at IIT Bombay (2019), local Technical Program Committee (TPC) Member of National Conference on Himalayan Cryosphere (2017), TPC member of The 6th Asia-Pacific Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar (APSAR-2019), Session Chair in IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (2019), Session Chair International Polarimetric SAR workshop Tokyo (2019), Session Chair of Japan-India-Russia Symposium on Geospatial data for Environment Monitoring (2019) and Session Chair in IEEE International India Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (InGRASS 2020), TPC member of the 7th APSAR-2021 and TPC Member and Session Chair, IEEE InGRASS 2021.

Dr. Shiv Mohan is a renowned researcher and educator with specialization in microwave remote sensing. He has played a key role in the development and applications of microwave remote sensing technologies in India during his career at ISRO spanning over 33 years He has led various research initiatives like joint ISRO-DLR airborne radar campaigns, multi frequency ground-based radar experiments and satellite SAR applications through global announcement opportunity from NASA/DLR, ESA, JAXA and Italian Space agency. His initiatives resulted in the development of ISRO’s applications program like Joint experiment program, Disaster SAR and Satellite SAR programs. He was the main architect of India’s first RISAT utilization program where he worked as Project Director until 2011. He was also lead contributor of Chandrayaan-1 Mini SAR water ice detection model and in the definition of Chandrayaan-2 dual frequency SAR. After retiring from ISRO, he worked with Physical Research Laboratory where he evolved applications of dual frequency microwave data for lunar water ice detection, regolith depth modelling and crater morphology. He has served as a member of 70 technical committee of ISRO including RISAT-1, Chandrayaan-1/2 and future Venus mission.

Dr. Jaya Sreevalsan Nair is currently a faculty member at the International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore (IIITB). She leads the  Graphics-Visualization-Computing Lab and is one of the core team members of the E-Health Research Center at IIITB. Jaya has research interests in data visualization, data science workflow design, and computational science. She works on identifying appropriate ensemble methods in data science workflows for complex datasets. She focuses on data representation using second-order tensors, matrices, and networks for varied applications. Some of her recent work includes uncertainty analysis of the semantic classification of LiDAR point clouds, hazard susceptibility mapping, spatial and statistical analysis of population surveys, automated data extraction from chart images, and community detection in biological and brain networks.