Curriculum Vitae

BRIEF PROFILE

Postdoctoral Researcher for 4 Years 7 months
Ph.D., M.C.P. (Master's in City Planning), B. Plan (Bachelor's in Planning)
Research Areas: GeoAI, Generative AI, Urban Analytics, Urban Planning
Personal website: www.deepankverma.com

EMPLOYMENT

Since Dec 2020

Postdoctoral Researcher, SpACE Lab, ISU, Faculty 3, TU Braunschweig, Germany

Dec 2019 – June 2020

Research Assistant, CUSE (Now Dept. of Civil Engineering), IIT Bombay, India

Jul 2016 – Dec 2019

Teaching Assistant (Part Time @ 8 hr./ Week) to Prof. Dr. Krithi Ramamritham (Ret.) and Prof. Dr. Arnab Jana (IIT Bombay)

Jul 2014 – Jul 2016

Teaching Assistant (Part Time @ 8 hr./ Week) to Prof. Dr. Saikat Paul (IIT Kharagpur)

Apr 2015 – Aug 2015

Intern, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, India

May 2013 – Aug 2013

Intern, Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), IIRS Dehradun, India

EDUCATION

August 2020

Ph.D. (4 years) at the CUSE (Now Dept. of Civil Engineering), IIT Bombay, India Thesis topic: Human Perception of Urban Surroundings: A multimodal approach using visual and auditory senses Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Krithi Ramamritham (Dept. of Computer Science and Eng.), Prof. Dr. Arnab Jana (Dept. Of Civil Eng.)

July 2016

M.C.P. (2 years), Masters in City Planning at the Department of Architecture and Regional Planning, IIT Kharagpur, India Thesis topic: Developing tool to calculate Urban Carrying Capacity using Agent-Based Modelling in Geographical contexts Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Saikat Paul (Dept. of Architecture and Regional Planning, IIT Kharagpur)

July 2014

B.Plan (4 years), Bachelors in Planning at the SPA Bhopal, India

AWARDS AND GRANTS

Travel grant to visit Tongji University, Shanghai, China, as part of the Sino-German Joint Research Center 2024
ERASMUS+ Staff Mobility Fellowship grant to attend Institut Pascal, Paris, France, 2022
Naik and Rastogi Best PhD thesis (among top 5 %) award 2021
Travel Grant to Attend Global Cities Forum (Indian Representative) at Chicago, USA, 2019
Travel Grant to Attend Summer School at BIN Studies Unit, Univ. of Tokyo, Japan 2019
Satya Nath Haldar Best Masters Planning Thesis Award, ITPI WB Chapter 2017
MHRD Fellowship for Teaching Assistantship during the PhD Program (2016-2019)
MHRD Fellowship for Teaching Assistantship during the M.C.P. Program (2014-2016)

ASSIGNMENTS AS EDITOR, PEER REVIEW

Upcoming editor of Special issue in journal: Sustainability (to be announced)
Book editor: Urban Sustainable Solutions, Interdisciplinary Reflections for Global Sustainable Futures (Springer Nature, ISBN:978-3-031-94361-4)
Recent Peer-Reviewed manuscripts in journals: Landscape and Urban Planning, Sustainable Cities and Society, Cities, IEEE Access, Nature Cities, Remote Sensing, Geojournal, Applied Geomatics, Transactions on Affective Computing, Environmental Science and Technology

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

TU Braunschweig

Co-lead instructor: Seminar-Human Centered Design Seminar (SS 2023) along with Prof. Dr. Bhatt, Univ. of Orebro (30 hrs.)
Lead instructor: Seminar-Decoding Cities (SS 2022) (20 hrs.)
Lead instructor: Seminar-Urban Data Lab (WS 2021) (20 hrs.)

IIT Bombay

Teaching assistant (Total: 6 Semesters each) Fundamentals of Urban Science and Engineering (Part I and II)
Teaching assistant (Total: 6 Semesters) Research methods in urban planning

IIT Kharagpur

Teaching assistant (Total: 1 Semester) Fundamentals of GIS and Remote Sensing.

Others