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Prof. Haijun Qiu is a Professor and Deputy Dean of the College of Urban and Environmental Sciences at Northwest University, Xi'an, China. He obtained his B.Sc. (2007) and Ph.D. (2012) from Northwest University and completed postdoctoral research at the Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) from 2014 to 2017. He was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Michigan and the University of Montana during 2017–2018 before becoming a full Professor at Northwest University in 2019. His research focuses on mountain hazard monitoring, landslide early warning, remote sensing, InSAR, geohazard risk mapping, climate change impacts, and disaster prevention. He has been recognized as a National-level Young Talent, High-level Scientific and Technological Leading Talent of the Ministry of Natural Resources, Leading Talent in Scientific and Technological Innovation of Shaanxi Province, Outstanding Young Scientist of Shaanxi Province, and recipient of the "Most Beautiful Geographical Science and Technology Worker" award from the Geographical Society of China. He has published 85 SCI journal articles as first/corresponding author, including 11 ESI Hot Papers and 15 Highly Cited Papers, and has obtained 17 invention patents, 5 software copyrights, and authored 5 books.
Bappa Mukherjee obtained his M.Sc. (Tech) and PhD in Applied Geophysics from IIT (ISM), Dhanbad. He worked as a postdoctoral fellow at several institutes of national importance, such as Gas Hydrate Group of the CSIR National Geophysical Research Institute, Hyderabad; Centre of Excellence in Artificial Intelligence, IIT Kharagpur; and Seismic Interpretation Laboratory, Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, Dehradun. Currently, he is working as a Scientist in Subsurface Geophysics and Geodynamics group at the Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology (An Autonomous Institute of DST, GoI), Dehradun.
He is working on the application of AI/ML, Mathematical tools and transforms, and mono- and multifractal-based approaches for subsurface feature delineation, resource estimation, etc., in the context of reservoir characterisation using seismic and well-log data. He also has expertise in GPS and gravity data analysis and interpretation. He has published ~35 papers in SCI journals, holds two international patents (in United Kingdom), leads major GoI-sponsored (ANRF) projects as PI and serves as an editorial board member of reputed international journals.