Director

Dr. T. P. Singh

Dr. T.P. Singh is currently working as a Director and Professor of Symbiosis Institute of Geoinformatics, Symbiosis International (Deemed) University. He has experience in the field of Geospatial Technology, Environment Management, spatial data analytics, climate change in India and abroad. He has started his career in Geospatial technology from the Indian Institute of Remote Sensing Dept. of Space, where he has worked on the projects of national importance.
He has earned his PhD degree in the area of satellite Image Classification techniques from Indian Institute of Remote Sensing and M.Phil in Geo Engineering from College of Engineering, Vishakhapatnam. Dr. Singh has received Master Degree in remote sensing Sorbonne University Erstwhile Pierre and Marie Curie University (UPMC), Paris University VI, France and M.Sc. from University of Lucknow in Environmental Science.
He has received the European Professional Higher Post Graduate Diploma in Geoinformatics from GDTA (Institute under French Space Agency) in association with Paris University VI France, University of Lisbon, Portugal and Warsaw University of Technology Poland.
Dr. Singh has worked on LiDAR technology at the University of Freiburg, Germany on Automatic feature extraction. Before, taking academic position at Symbiosis International Universiy, he has served at different government centres. He has carried out many national importance projects as Principal Investigator and also worked in a team of many projects. Dr. Singh also served as consultant to several state governments in the field of Environment, Remote Sensing and GIS. Dr Singh is a member of many professional bodies and Chairman of Indian Society of Geomatics, Pune Chapter, Secretary, Indian Society of Remote Sensing, Pune Chapter. He has Received Sir M. Visweswariaya National Engineering Award in the year 2015, DGSI National Gyan Ratna Award on Geospatial Technology 2023. Dr. Singh is also member of Expert committee of Landslide to the Maharashtra state Government. Dr. Singh Edited many books guided hundreds of Master thesis and many doctoral theses in the field of Geospatial Technology, Climate Change and Natural Resource Management and published several research papers in the peer reviewed journals.