Sunil Bhaskaran

About

Dr. Sunil Bhaskaran is a geospatial scientist and educator with more than 25 years of experience across Australia and the United States. He holds a PhD in applied geospatial technology from the University of New South Wales, along with advanced qualifications in urban planning, human settlement analysis, and geography. His expertise includes geospatial AI, remote sensing, urban scene classification, feature extraction, and object detection using multispectral and hyperspectral Earth observation data. He has led interdisciplinary research, developed academic programs, and built collaborations across academia, government, and industry. Dr. Bhaskaran has held appointments at the University of New South Wales, the University of Southern Queensland, Geoscience Australia, and the City University of New York. At Bronx Community College, he founded and led the Geospatial Center of the CUNY CREST Institute, advancing geospatial education, workforce development, and applied research through major support from NSF, NASA, and other partners. His work has earned national and international recognition, including Fulbright Specialist selection, federal advisory service, and multiple grants and honors. He lives in New Jersey and is a dual citizen of Australia and the United States.

Employment

• Bronx Community College Geospatial Center of the CUNY CREST Institute Founding Director
  2012 - Present
• Bronx Community College Professor
  2010 - Present
• Verizon Foundation GIS Consultant
  2010 - 2010
• Graduate Center Doctoral Faculty
  2008 - Present
• Lehman College Assistant Professor
  2008 - 2010
• Agrecon Pty Ltd Technical Lead
  2007 - 2008
• Geoscience Australia Senior Research Officer
  2006 - 2007
• University of Southern Queensland Lecturer
  2003 - 2006
• University of New South Wales Lecturer
  2002 - 2003
• University of New South Wales Part-Time Lecturer
  1999 - 2002

Education

• University of New South Wales PhD
  ? - 2003
• Indian Institute of Remote Sensing Post-Graduate Diploma
  ? - 1990
• Bangalore University Masters - First Rank with Distinction
  ? - 1989

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (74)

• Deriving community vulnerability indices by analyzing multi-resolution space-borne data and demographic data for extreme weather events in global cities
  Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment 2024 DOI: 10.1016/j.rsase.2023.101086
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• Geospatial Analyses for Urban Metabolism and Climate Change
  Bhaskaran, S., Minei, A., Shin, J., Bhatia, S., Collins, A. (2023). Geospatial Analyses for Urban Metabolism and Climate Change. In: Bhadouria, R., Tripathi, S., Singh, P., Joshi, P.K., Singh, R. (eds) Urban Metabolism and Climate Change. Springer, Cham. 2024
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• Integrated Urban Decarbonization Planning Tool for Global Cities
  Application of Geospatial Technology and Artificial Intelligence in Urban- environmental Studies 2022
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• Modelling urban heat island (UHI) and thermal field variation and their relationship with land use indices over Delhi and Mumbai metro cities
  Environment, Development and Sustainability 2021 DOI: 10.1007/s10668-021-01587-7
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• Spatial Analyses for Students and Educators: Multidisciplinary hands-on GIS exercises with QGIS Opensource software
  Kindle Edition 2021
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• GEO-SPATIAL ANALYSIS: UNDERSTANDING THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN URBAN MORPHOLOGY AND ACCESS TO MEDICAL CARE DURING COVID-19
  Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 2020 DOI: 10.1130/abs/2020am-359961
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• Assessing Fresh Food Access at a Community College: A Socio-Spatial Approach
  The Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers 2018
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• Pathways in Geospatial Technology – A Model for CUNY
  2017 CUNY IT Conference 2017
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• Geologic hazard assessment of mass wasting along California’s Central Pacific Coast
  Geologic Society of America Annual Meeting 2017
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• Pioneering Geospatial Technology at Bronx Community College – City University of New York
  CUNY GIS Summit 2017
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