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Prof. Pradeep Kumar Garg, is currently serving as Emeritus Fellow in Geomatics Engineering Group, Civil Engineering Department at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee, India. He completed B.Tech (Civil Engg.) in 1980 and M.Tech (Civil Engg) in 1982 both from the University of Roorkee (now IIT Roorkee). He is a recipient of Gold Medal at IIT Roorkee, Commonwealth Scholarship Award for doing Ph.D. from University of Bristol (UK), and Commonwealth Fellowship Award to carry out post-doctoral research work at University of Reading (UK). He joined the Department of Civil Engg at IIT Roorkee in 1982, and Head of the Civil Engg Department at IIT Roorkee in 2015 for a short period, and then Vice Chancellor, Uttarakhand Technical University, Dehradun from 2015-2018, and finally retired in June 2014. He has published more than 300 technical papers in national and international conferences and journals. He has undertaken 27 research and 94 consultancy projects and guided 31 Ph.D, Thesis on various aspects of geospatial engineering. He has two Patents, and authored six text books and Edited six books. He is a life member of 24 professional societies, out of which he is a Fellow member of 8 societies.

Dr Prakhar Misra joined Civil Engg Deptt, IIT Roorkee in 2023 as Assistant Professor. He completed B. Tech + M. Tech (Dual Degree) from Civil Engineering,form IIT Kanpur in year 2013. Thereafter, he completed PhD degree in Geomatics Engineering from the University of Tokyo, Japan in 2018. From 2018-2023, he worked in Japan in various positions. His areas of expertise include Remote Sensing/GIS applications and techniques for Human-Environment Systems, Multi-modal Deep Learning for Optical and SAR, Air quality and GHG Emissions, Environmental impacts, Land-use change and Urbanization, Urban digital surface models and Built-infrastructure health monitoring. He has published 19 papers in international journals of repute, and 25 conference papers in various national and international conferences.