Inaugural Ceremony
Chief Guest
Prof. Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay
Prof. Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay
Director, ISI Kolkata
Brief
Prof. Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay joined the Machine Intelligence Unit of the Indian Statistical Institute as a faculty member in 1999, after completing her PhD from the same Institute. She was the Director of the Institute from August 2015 to July 2020, and is currently on her second tenure as Director from September 2020 onwards. Sanghamitra has worked in various Universities and Institutes world-wide including in USA, Australia, Germany, France, Italy, China, Slovenia and Mexico, and delivered invited lectures in many more countries.
Career and Achievements
Prof. Sanghamitra has received several awards and fellowships including the Bhatnagar Prize, Infosys award, TWAS Prize, DBT National Women Bioscientist Award (Young), INAE Silver Jubilee Prize, Young scientist/engineer medals of INSA, INAE and Science Congress, JC Bose Fellowship, Swarnajayanti Fellowship and Humboldt Fellowship. She is a Senior Associate of ICTP and Fellow of INSA, INAE, NASI and IEEE. She is currently a member of the Science, Technology and Innovation Advisory Council of the Prime Minister of India (PM-STIAC).
The current research interests of Prof. Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay include artificial intelligence, machine learning, soft and evolutionary computation, pattern recognition, data mining and various other applications. She has authored/co-authored more than 300 research article in international journals, conferences and book chapters, and published six authored and edited books from publishers like Springer, World Scientific and Wiley. She has also edited journals special issues in the area of soft computing, data mining, and bioinformatics.
Guest of Honor
Dr. Mariko Burgin
Dr. Mariko Burgin
2023 IEEE GRSS President
Brief
Dr. Mariko Burgin is the IEEE GRSS President for the year 2023. Dr. Burgin was previously the Executive Vice President for 2021-2022. She is currently a member of the AdCom and also an IEEE Senior Member. Dr. Burgin works in systems engineering and mission formulation with a focus on advanced technology development for NASA missions. She supports Mars Sample Return (MSR) as the Break The Chain (BTC) Domain Lead and am a capture lead, facilitator, and systems engineer in Project Systems Engineering + Formulation.
Career and Achievements
Dr. Burgin has 10+ years of governmental and academic experience in developing geospatial solutions for Earth, and leading R&D teams for Earth, Mars, and Beyond. Her technical background is in applied electromagnetics (modeling + simulation, algorithm development) with deep expertise in active + passive microwave remote sensing (radars + radiometers). Her interests include the application of machine learning, feature extraction, computer vision, and data fusion of multi-temporal data for Earth observation. Dr. Burgin is the recipient of 3 JPL Team Awards, 2 NASA Group Achievement Awards, 1 JPL Discovery Award, 1 JPL Voyager Award, and 1 IEEE Award for Outstanding Contribution to Promoting Women in Engineering. She has advised and mentored graduate students, postdocs, and interns. Her research profile includes 80+ publications including journal papers, book chapters, and peer-reviewed conference proceedings
Guest of Honor
Dr. Shiv Mohan
Dr. Shiv Mohan
IEEE GRSS India Liaison
Brief
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.
Career and Achievements
Dr. Shiv Mohan has served as a member of 70 technical committee of ISRO including RISAT-1, Chandrayaan-1/2 and future Venus mission. He has 320 research papers in Journals, conferences, ISRO reports and conducted about 190 tutorials. He has authored a book on Chandrayaan-1 Mini SAR data investigation. He has guided 22 PG and three PhD dissertations. His outstanding contributions have been recognized with prestigious awards, including the Indian National Remote Sensing Award (1995) and IEEE (Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society) Outstanding Service Award (2022), making him the first Indian scientist to receive this honour. He is also a recipient of outstanding reviewer award from Elsevier, Netherland (2015). He has served as visiting scientist at DLR, Germany during 1980 ,1981 and Chief Scientist, HARSAC, Haryana Government during 1998 to 2001. Currently, he is visiting Professor at CEPT University, Nirma University and Gujarat University. Dr Shiv Mohan was instrumental towards the growth of IEEE GRSS Society in Indian region. He initiated IEEE GRSS supported conference In India known as InGARSS and served as general chair of InGARSS 2020 and IGARSS 2021. He was also responsible for establishing a GRSS virtual GRSS Lab for India. He is Executive committee member of IEEE (Gujarat) for the year 2021-2023 and IEEE India Council- 2023. He is founder Chair of IEEE GRSS Gujarat Chapter and IEEE GRSS liaison for India.
Guest of Honor
Dr. Shubha Pandey
Dr. Shubha Pandey
Scientist, National Geospatial Programe Division, Department of Science and Technology (DST)
Brief
Dr. Shubha Pandey received her MS in Geochemistry from New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, New Mexico USA and PhD from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi/ Jamia Millia Islamia. She has spent a year as a Post-Doctoral Fellow in Green Chemistry at the University of Missouri-Columbia, USA during 2011-2012.
Career and Achievements
Dr. Shubha worked in Indian Institute of Technology Delhi as an independent Young Principle Investigator on DST Fast Track Scheme. Currently She is working as a Scientist in National Geospatial Programe Division of Department of Science and Technology (DST), Govt. of India, where she is handling various programme such as Geospatial Science focusing on Geodesy, Coastal Hazard and Risk Assessment, Urban Governance, Geospatial Capacity Building, National Geospatial Policy 2022 implementation and International Cooperation etc. She has more than 25 peer-reviewed publications in international journal of excellent repute, 04 Book Chapters and 1 US patent.