Shagun Garg
Research Interests:
- Interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR)
- Hazard Vulnerability and Risk assessment
- Surface deformation mapping
- Flood Monitoring
- Urban area mapping
Career:
Sep 2022 - Feb 2022: Researcher at FERN.Lab (Project: AgriSens)
June 2022 - Sep 2022: Researcher at GFZ Potsdam (Project : AI4Flood)
Oct 2021 - Present: MRes student at FIBE, University of Cambridge.
Oct 2020 - Oct 2021 : Researcher at GFZ Potsdam, Germany
Mar 2020 - May 2020: Guest Researcher at GFZ Potsdam, Germany
Sep 2019 - Jun 2020 : DAAD Exchange Student at Leibniz University Hannover, Germany (funded by DAAD)
Aug 2018 - May 2019: Teaching Assistant for Geodesy and Fluid Mechanics lab at IIT Bombay, India
Education:
- MRes+PhD in Sustainability and Resilience in Future Infrastructure and Built Environment (FIBE2 CDT), Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge [2021-2026]
- Master of Technology (M.Tech) in Remote Sensing from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, India [2018 - 2020].
Thesis title: Imaging Land Subsidence Induced by Groundwater Extraction over Delhi NCR, India using RADAR Interferometry - Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) in Civil Engineering from College of Technology, Pantnagar GBPUAT, [ 2014 - 2018].
Thesis title: Design of the slab of the culvert using standard provisions by Indian Road Congress (IRC) 112:2011 and IRC 21:2000.
Projects:
- Improving flood detection accuracy in arid/semi-arid regions using interferometric coherence (Helmholtz AI funded -A14Flood project)
- Estimation of Land Subsidence over Delhi NCR, India using Persistent Scatter Interferometry
- Estimation of Groundwater Anomaly using Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) and Global Land Data Assimilation System (GLDAS)
- Accuracy Assessment of TanDEM-X DEM, Cartosat DEM, SRTM using manually collected GPS points over IIT Mumbai region
- Urban Area Mapping Using Sentinel -1 Imagery over Delhi Region using SNAP
- Relationship between vegetation, built-up areas and surface temperature for Mumbai, India
Research Boards and Committees:
Reviewer for IEEE Transactions On Geoscience And Remote Sensing
Reviewer for GIScience & Remote Sensing (Taylor & Francis)
Reviewer for Geomatics, Natural Hazards, and Risk (Taylor & Francis)
Reviewer for All Earth (Taylor & Francis)
Reviewer for The Professional Geographer (Taylor & Francis)
Reviewer for Science of Remote Sensing (Elsevier)
Awards:
- Vice Chancellor's award for MRES+PhD at the Department of Civil Engineering, University of Cambridge. [Oct 2021 - Oct 2025]
- EPSRC CDT Studentship towards MRes + Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge [Oct 2021 - Oct 2025]
- BP International Award [Oct 2021]
- DAAD-KOSPIE Scholarship to study at Leibniz University Hannover, Germany during M.Tech from IIT Bombay. [Sep 2019 - Aug 2020]
- MHRD Scholarship during Master's by Ministry of Education, Government of India. [Aug 2018 - Aug 2019]
- Foundation for Excellence scholarship during B.Tech from College of Technology Pantnagar [July 2014 - May 2018]