Chandan M. C.

Designation: 

Assistant Professor (Grade-II) (On Contract)

Date of Joining at NITK: 

Thursday, December 26, 2024

Professional Experience: 

* Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, The National Institute of Engineering (NIE), Mysore, Karnataka, India.Jan 2021-Dec 2024 Jul 2015-Dec 2016
*Management Trainee, Sobha Developers Limited, Bangalore, India. July 2011-Aug 2012
Job-Description: Led the residential project “Cinnamon” High rise residential apartments. Manage, account, costing, training and supervise construction work.

Contact Details
Academic Background

* Ph.D. (2021)
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, West Bengal, India.
Doctorate in Urban Infrastructure Modelling using Geoinformatics.
Dissertation: Urban Land Use Modelling and Developing a Framework of Spatial Decision Support System for Indian Cities.
Advisor: Bharath H Aithal. Committee: Joy Sen, Bhargab Maitra, Arkopal K Goswami

* M.Tech (2015)
Department of Applied Mechanics.
National Institute of Technology Karnataka (NITK), Surathkal, India
Master of Technology in Remote sensing and GIS.
Dissertation: Modelling Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Urban Growth in Metropolitan Cities of India.
Advisor: M. K. Nagaraj (Internal, NITK), T. V. Ramachandra (External, IISc., Bangalore)

*B.E. (2011)
Department of Civil Engineering, The National Institute of Engineering (NIE), Mysore,Karnataka, India.

Conference Proceedings: 

32
Areas of Interest

Remote Sensing, Urban Growth Modelling, Spatial Decision Support Systems, Urban Flood modelling, Land surface temperature and Urban heat island studies.

Journals: 

7

Book Chapters: 

7
Significant Publications

1. Chandan, M. C., & Bharath, H. A., (2021). Impact assessment of Corridor Oriented development - A case of urban agglomerations of India. International
Review for Spatial Planning and Sustainable Development, 9(2), 172-194. https://doi.org/10.14246/irspsdc.9.2_172
2. Bharath, H. A., Chandan, M. C., Vinay, S., & Akshit, S. (2020). Land allocation model using cellular automata to understand housing demand and supply. Spatial
Information Research, 29, 339–351. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41324-020-00350-w
3. Chandan, M. C., Nimish, G. & Bharath, H.A. (2020). Analysing spatial patterns and trend of future urban expansion using SLEUTH. Spatial Information
Research, 28(1), 11–23. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41324-019-00262-4
4. Bharath, H.A., Chandan, M. C., & Nimish, G. (2019). Assessing land surface temperature and land use change through spatio-temporal analysis: A case study
of select major cities of India. Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 12(11). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12517-019-4547-1 Impact Factor: 0.86
5. Bharath, H. A., Chandan, M. C., Vinay, S., & Ramachandra, T. V. (2018). Modelling urban dynamics in rapidly urbanising Indian cities. The Egyptian Journal of Remote Sensing
and Space Science, 21(3), 201–210. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejrs.2017.08.002 Cite Score: 4.89
6. Bharath, H. A., Vinay, S., Chandan, M. C., Gouri, B. A., & Ramachandra, T. V. (2018). Green to Gray: Silicon Valley of India. Journal of Environmental Management, 206, 1287–
1295. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2017.06.072, Impact Factor: 4.005

Achievements

*Best paper award: Water Urbanism and Infrastructure Development in Eco-Sensitive Zones, 2017, Kolkata; Research for Transport and Logistics Industry (R4TLI), 2022,Colombo.
*Sahyadri Ecologist Award, IISc Bangalore, 2018.
*Travel awards: FOSS4G Asia conference, Moratuwa, (2018); Fall Meeting, AGU, USA (2018); 16th International Conference – CUPUM, China (2019).
*Fellowships: Post-graduation education (2013-15); Doctoral research (2017-2021) by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Govt. of India.

 

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Department of Water Resources & Ocean Engg
(Formerly Applied Mechanics & Hydraulics), NITK, Surathkal
P. O. Srinivasnagar, Mangaluru - 575 025
Karnataka, India.
 
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