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BS Daya Sagar

Indian Statistical Institute, Indian Statistical Institute-Bangalore Centre, Andhra University College of Engineering, Multimedia University

ORCID iD 0000-0002-6140-8742
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B. S. Daya Sagar is a Professor (Higher Administrative Grade) of the Systems Science and Informatics Unit (SSIU) and the Head of the Indian Statistical Institute – Bangalore Centre. Sagar received his MSc and PhD degrees in Geoengineering and Remote Sensing from the Faculty of Engineering, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, India, in 1991 and 1994, respectively. He is also the Founding Head of the SSIU. Earlier, he worked in the College of Engineering, Andhra University, and the Centre for Remote Imaging Sensing and Processing (CRISP), The National University of Singapore, in various positions from 1992 to 2001. He served as associate professor and researcher in the Faculty of Engineering & Technology (FET), Multimedia University, Malaysia, from 2001 to 2007. Sagar has made significant contributions to geosciences, with particular emphasis on developing spatial algorithms meant for geo-pattern retrieval, analysis, reasoning, modelling, and visualization by using mathematical morphology and fractal geometry concepts. He has published over 90 papers in journals and has authored and guest-edited 14 books and special theme issues for journals. He authored a book entitled "Mathematical Morphology in Geomorphology and GISci," CRC Press: Boca Raton, 2013, p. 546. He co-edited two special issues on "Filtering and Segmentation with Mathematical Morphology" for IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing (v. 6, no. 7, p. 737-886, 2012), and "Applied Earth Observation and Remote Sensing in India" for IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observation and Remote Sensing (v. 10, no. 12, p. 5149-5328, 2017). His book "Handbook of Mathematical Geosciences", Springer Publishers, p. 942, 2018, crossed 1.3 Million downloads. His two-volume Encyclopedia of Mathematical Geosciences (Springer Nature, 1744 pages) is released in 2023. He was elected as a member of the New York Academy of Sciences in 1995, as a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society in 2000, as a Senior Member of IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society in 2003, as a Fellow of the Indian Geophysical Union in 2011, as a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences (FASc) in 2022, the Indian National Science Academy (FNA) in 2024, and the International Artificial Intelligence Industry Alliance (FAIIA). He has also been a member of the American Geophysical Union since 2004 and a life member of the International Association for Mathematical Geosciences (IAMG). He delivered the "Curzon & Co - Seshachalam Lecture - 2009" at Sarada Ranganathan Endowment Lectures (SRELS), Bangalore, and the "Frank Harary Endowment Lecture - 2019" at International Conference on Discrete Mathematics - 2019 (ICDM - 2019). He was awarded the 'Dr. Balakrishna Memorial Award' of the Andhra Pradesh Academy of Sciences in 1995, the Krishnan Medal of the Indian Geophysical Union in 2002, the 'Georges Matheron Award - 2011 with Lectureship' of the IAMG, and the Award of IAMG Certificate of Appreciation - 2018. He is the Founding Chairman of the Bangalore Section IEEE GRSS Chapter. He has been appointed as an IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS) Distinguished Lecturer (DL) for three years from 2020 to 2024. He is an AGU Honors & Recognition Committee (HRC) Member for 2022-2025. He is on the Editorial Boards of Computers & Geosciences, Frontiers: Environmental Informatics, and Mathematical Geosciences. For more details about him, the following webpages may be referred to http://www.isibang.ac.in/~bsdsagar, https://en.wikipedia/wiki/B._S._Daya_Sagar, https://in.linkedin.com/in/bs-daya-sagar-a015495.

Employment

  • Indian Statistical Institute Head
    2023 - 2027
  • Indian Statistical Institute Professor (Higher Administrative Grade, HAG)
    2022 - 2032
  • Indian Statistical Institute Professor
    2013 - 2022
  • Indian Statistical Institute-Bangalore Centre Associate Professor and Founding Head
    2007 - 2013
  • Multimedia University Associate Professor
    2001 - 2007
  • National University of Singapore Grade-A Research Scientist
    1998 - 2001
  • Andhra University College of Engineering JRF / SRF / RA / Research Scientist
    1991 - 1998

Education

  • Andhra University College of Engineering PhD
    1991 - 1994

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