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Prof. Biswajeet Pradhan, 2017 at the base of University Putra Malaysia Prof. Biswajeet Pradhan (born December 17, 1975 in Odisha) is an Indian cartographer, geospatial Engineer, Geoscientist and Expert in GIS and Remote Sensing. Biswajeet Pradhan received the B.Sc. degree with honors from Berhampur University, India, the M.Sc. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay, M.Tech. degree in Civil Engineering from the IIT, Kanpur, India, and (Dresden University of Technology, Germany). He holds Ph.D. degree in (GIS and Geomatics Engineering from the University Putra Malaysia). From 2008-2010; he was a recipient of (Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship from Germany). In 2011, he received his habilitation in “Remote Sensing” from Dresden University of Technology, Germany. He was also a recipient of the prestigious German Academic Exchange Research (DAAD) Fellowship Award, the Saxony State Fellowship from 1999 to 2002, the Keith Aurtherton Research Award, and the Georg Forster Research Award]] from the German Government. Dr. Pradhan is a Faculty member at (Dept. of Civil Engineering, University Putra Malaysia). He has more than sixteen years of teaching, research, and industrial experience. Out of his more than 350 articles, more than 235 have been published in science citation index (SCI/SCIE) international journals. He has written two books in disaster management and GIS data compression and edited three volumes, and written 12 book chapters. He specializes in remote sensing, GIS application, and soft computing techniques in natural hazard and environmental problems. Professor Pradhan is the Editor of many ISI International journals. His published work has been widely cited by his peers with more 5800 citations in SCOPUS database. His H-index is 46.Since February 2015, he is serving as (“Ambassador Scientist”) for Alexander Humboldt Foundation, Germany. He has completed 21 research projects amounting to Ringgit Malaysia 56 Million. He is a member of many professional bodies such as Committee of Space research (COSPAR), Senior Member of IEEE, United Nations Outer Space Research Programme (UNOOSA) and many more. He sits as board member of many national programs in Malaysia and South-East Asia. He is a regular reviewer for many international bodies a like Dutch Research Council, Austrian Science Foundation, Research Council UK (RCUK) and many more.His Research areas of interest is geomorphology and geological hazards; land surface remote-sensing (specifics interest in natural disaster modeling using remote sensing data/parameters and GIS tools for flood, earthquake, forest fire, hot spot and landslides);data analyses for land surface, environmental process studies and modeling, catchment modeling in GIS and ground water potential zonation modeling; ocean surface remote-sensing specifics in oil spill detection from radarsat and SAR imagery and oil spill trajectory modeling in GIS; three-dimensional GIS spatial data compression (specifics interest in LiDAR and DEM compression using wavelets). Professor Pradhan has widely travelled abroad visiting more than 52 countries to present his research findings. References: RESEARCH GATE: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Biswajeet_Pradhan/#ppup GOOGLE SCHOLAR: http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=kuKwsCwAAAAJ&hl=en SCOPUS: https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=12753037900 ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9863-2054