Rate My Professor Arun Prasad

Dr. Arun Prasad Kumar serves as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography, School of Earth Sciences, at the Central University of Tamil Nadu, Thiruvarur, India, in a regular capacity since March 2020. Prior to this, he held positions as contractual Assistant Professor and Guest Faculty at the same department from June 2018 to March 2020. He completed his Ph.D. in 2016 from the Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram, with a thesis on spectral analysis for species characterization of mangroves in Bhitarkanika National Park, Odisha, using hyperspectral remote sensing. His academic journey includes an M.Sc. in Earth Remote Sensing and Geo-Information Technology from Madurai Kamaraj University in 2010, where he achieved university first rank, and a B.Sc. in Geography from the University of Kerala in 2008, also securing first rank. Arun Prasad Kumar was awarded the Alexander von Humboldt International Climate Protection Fellowship by the German Federal Ministry for the Environment (2017-2018), enabling postdoctoral research as a Guest Scientist at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany. In 2015, he received the Green Talents Young Researcher Award from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, supporting a research internship at DLR. He also qualified for CSIR-UGC Junior Research Fellowship and NET with 36th rank in Earth Sciences.

His research employs remote sensing time series data, machine learning, deep learning, and geostatistical methods to investigate landscape processes and spatial issues, with emphasis on estuarine ecosystems, coastal wetlands, sustainable coastal aquaculture, microplastics pollution, paleogeography, and spatial epidemiology. Key publications encompass 'Spatio-temporal agricultural drought monitoring and modeling: a comprehensive review on multi source remote sensing and machine learning techniques' (Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 2026, co-authored with Mondal et al.), 'Spatial epidemiology of acute respiratory infections in children under 5 years and associated risk factors in India' (Frontiers in Public Health, 2022, with Balasubramani et al.), 'Quantifying spatio-temporal variation in aquaculture production areas in Satkhira, Bangladesh using geospatial and social survey' (PLOS ONE, 2022, with Nujaira et al.), 'Detecting heat-inducing urban built-up surface material with multi remote sensing datasets using reflectance and emission spectroscopy' (Remote Sensing of Environment, 2021, with Priyadarshini et al.), and 'Assessment of Coastal Aquaculture for India from Sentinel-1 SAR time series' (Remote Sensing, 2019). These contributions advance environmental monitoring, climate change assessment, and disaster risk reduction in coastal contexts.