Pulakesh Das

Dr. Pulakesh Das has more than 13 years of experience in applying geoinformatics in environmental studies. His work focuses on land use land cover modelling, deforestation monitoring, forest health monitoring, ecosystem resilience, landscape restoration, hydrological modelling, agriculture practices monitoring, crop damage assessment, natural resources management, and climate change impact studies.
He is currently working as a Technical Lead, Agriculture in the GIS division at Madhya Pradesh State Electronics Development Corporation (MPSEDC). Previously, he worked at the World Resources Institute India from December 2019 to January 2023. He taught for two years (from September 2017 to December 2019) in the Department of Remote Sensing & GIS at Vidyasagar University, West Bengal, India. He has authored 60 peer-reviewed research articles and book chapters.
Dr. Pulakesh Das received his PhD degree in 2019 from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India. He did postdoctoral research in the School of Forest Resources at the University of Maine, USA. Pulakesh holds a bachelor’s degree in Physics and a master’s degree in Remote Sensing and GIS from Vidyasagar University, India.