Prof. Pradeep Kumar Garg

IIT Roorkee

Prof. Pradeep Kumar Garg, is currently serving as Professor in Geomatics Engineering Group, Civil Engineering Department at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee, Uttarakhand, 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 to stand first during M.Tech programme, 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 gradually advancing his career rose to the position of Head of the Civil Engg Department at IIT Roorkee in 2015, and then Vice Chancellor, Uttarakhand Technical University, Dehradun from 2015-2018. Prof. Garg has published more than 310 technical papers in national and international conferences and journals. He has undertaken 27 research projects and provided technical services to 94 consultancy projects on various aspects of Civil Engineering, generating funds for the Institute. He has authored text books on (i) Remote Sensing, (ii) Geoinformatics, (iii) Introduction to UAVs, and (iv) Digital mapping of soil, Edited three books and produced two technical films on Story of Mapping. Besides, supervising a large number of undergraduate projects, he has guided about 73 M.Tech and 28 Ph.D. Thesis. He is instrumental in prestigious MHRD funded projects on e-learning; Development of Virtual Labs, Pedagogy and courses under NPTEL. He has served as experts on various national committees, including Ministry of Environment & Forest, EAEC Committee, NBA (AICTE) and Project Evaluation Committee, DST, New Delhi. Prof. Garg has reviewed a large number of papers for national and international journals. Considering the need to train the human resource in the country, he has successfully organized 40 programmes in advanced areas of Surveying, Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing, GIS and GPS. He has successfully organized more than 10 conferences and workshops. He is a life member of 24 professional societies, out of which he is a Fellow member of 9 societies. For academic work, Prof. Garg has travelled widely, nationally and internationally.

NOC: Advanced Geomatics Engineering, IIT Roorkee