Vishal Mishra

Dr. Vishal Mishra is an Assistant Professor in the Civil Engineering Department at École Centrale School of Engineering, Mahindra University. He has authored more than 20 research papers, which have been published in international and national journals and as chapters in books.

He holds a dual degree of Ph.D. + M.Tech (Geomatics Engineering) from the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India, and a B.Tech. in Civil Engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Durgapur. His research interests span Geospatial AI, SAR interferometry, and UAV-based remote sensing, with a focus on geohazard detection, dam and reservoir monitoring, and digital twin applications for critical infrastructure.

Prior to joining Mahindra University, Dr. Mishra served as a Project Fellow and Research Associate at the International Centre of Excellence for Dams (ICED), IIT Roorkee, where he worked on AI-based dam monitoring using SAR/InSAR, GLOF inventory preparation, and the development of a live Seismic Hazard Data Dashboard of India using ArcGIS Enterprise. He was also a Visiting Scientist at the GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany, and a Technical Consultant at Raveneye Geospatial Pvt. Ltd., an IIT Roorkee-incubated startup, where he led UAV-LiDAR landslide surveys in the Uttarakhand Himalayas.

Dr. Mishra has received several honours, including the MSCA Seal of Excellence from the European Commission, the Mitacs-SICI Globalink Research Award, the Georgius Agricola Scholarship, and the Helmholtz Visiting Researcher Grant. He serves on the editorial board of Springer Nature’s Discover Earth Observation and has reviewed over 170 manuscripts across international journals.

• 2009 – 2013: B.Tech (Civil Engineering), National Institute of Technology Durgapur, India
• 2015 – 2024: M.Tech+ PhD Dual Degree, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India
  • Dissertation/Thesis Title: Mapping and Assessing Artificial Reservoir-Induced Landslides using Geo-AI Techniques
  • Supervisor: Prof Kamal Jain

• Vishal Mishra and Kamal Jain, “Satellite based assessment of artificial reservoir induced landslides in data scarce environment: A case study of Baglihar reservoir in India,” Journal of Applied Geophysics, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jappgeo.2022.104754
• Vishal Mishra, Kapil Malik, Vivek Agarwal, Prabuddh Kumar Mishra, and Kamal Jain, “Impact assessment of unsustainable airport development in the Himalayas using remote sensing: A case study of Pakyong Airport, Sikkim, India,” Quaternary Science Advances, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.qsa.2023.100144
• Vishal Mishra, Ram Avtar, A. P. Prathiba, Prabuddh Kumar Mishra, Anuj Tiwari, Surendra Kumar Sharma, Chandra Has Singh, Bankim Chandra Yadav, and Kamal Jain, “Uncrewed Aerial Systems in Water Resource Management and Monitoring: A Review of Sensors, Applications, Software, and Issues,” Advances in Civil Engineering, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1155/2023/3544724
• Chandra Has Singh, Vishal Mishra, Kamal Jain, and Anoop Kumar Shukla, “FRCNN-Based Reinforcement Learning for Real-Time Vehicle Detection, Tracking and Geolocation from UAS,” Drones, 2022, https://doi.org/10.3390/drones6120406
• Ankit Choudhary, Vishal Mishra, Rahul Dev Garg, and S. S. Jain, “Spatio–temporal analysis of traffic crash hotspots – an application of GIS-based technique in road safety,” Applied Geomatics, 2025, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12518-025-00615-9
• Surendra Kumar Sharma, Vivek Sharma, and Vishal Mishra, “Building Extraction for Urban Infrastructure Mapping Using Deep Neural Networks and High-Resolution Remote Sensing Data,” Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing, 2025, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12524-025-02132-z
• Priyanka Vibhandik, Suraj Sawant, Vishal Mishra, Ranjeet Bidwe, and Amit Joshi, “Harnessing geospatial intelligence for wildfire risk mapping using ML and DL techniques,” Discover Applied Sciences, 2026, https://doi.org/10.1007/s42452-026-08288-8
• Neel Chaminda Withanage, Kalpani Lakmali Gunathilaka, Prabuddh Kumar Mishra, Kamal Abdelrahman, Dilnu Chanuwan Wijesinghe, Vishal Mishra, Sumita Tripathi, and Mohammed S. Fnais, “A quality of life index for the rural periphery of Sri Lanka using GIS multi-criteria decision analysis techniques,” PLOS ONE, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0308077
• Shubham Awasthi, Kamal Jain, Vishal Mishra, and Ajeet Kumar, “An approach for multi-dimensional land subsidence velocity estimation using time-series Sentinel-1 SAR datasets by applying persistent scatterer interferometry technique,” Geocarto International, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1080/10106049.2020.1831624
• Anuj Tiwari, Surendra Kumar Sharma, Abhilasha Dixit, and Vishal Mishra, “UAV remote sensing for campus monitoring: A comparative evaluation of nearest neighbor and rule-based classification,” Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing, 2021, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12524-020-01268-4

• From 08/2026 – To Present: Assistant Professor, Mahindra University, Hyderabad, India
• From 05/2025 – To 08/2026: Project Fellow, International Centre of Excellence for Dams, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
• From 12/2024 – To 03/2025: Research Associate, International Centre of Excellence for Dams, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
• From 05/2023 – To 07/2023: Visiting Scientist, GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany
• From 12/2019 – To 03/2023: Technical Consultant, Raveneye Geospatial Private Limited, India
• From 06/2013 – To 06/2014: Graduate Engineer Trainee, Paharpur Cooling Towers Limited, Kolkata, India

Current research interests include Geomatics Engineering, Remote Sensing, Geospatial AI, SAR Interferometry, and their applications in Geohazard Assessment, Dam Safety, and Disaster Management.