Dr Devanjan Bhattacharya
Job Title
Research Fellow
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d.bhattacharya@ed.ac.uk
Research interests
Research themes
Research interests
Data science, AI for multi-modal analysis, pattern mapping, open source intelligence (OSINT), geo-spatial intelligence (GEOINT), digital mapping, spatial data infrastructures, geographical information systems, geo-informatics.
Background
I am a Research Fellow in a recently launched ERC Advanced Grant project called WARSHARE, where we are trying to engage generative AI on to Telegram channels of Ukraine war coverage to parse and answer questions. We are setting up a research team with PhD scholars, MSc researchers and other technological groups. This project will grasp the new ways and the new scale at which an array of actors can participate in warfare, via the massive growth in use of digital apps, services and platforms. But at the same time, it will experiment with an accelerating revolution in machine-learning and AI methods which enable not just the mining and measuring of online behaviour at scale, but also to interrogate the multiple modes of communication (messages, images, video, memes and emojiis) that together shape participation and meaning in warfare. This project will innovate through experimental testing of research questions in using emergent developments in AI. These enable new modes of mining, aggregating, representing and analysing the content and interactions on multimodal social media platforms, and how they are exploited for war.
My background is computer science and informatics but I have been involved with Peace and Conflict technologies analysis for quite some time now, having worked on PeaceTech in the Edinburgh Law School research group PeaceREP as a Marie Curie Fellow. My areas of research and teaching being geomatics and geo-spatial technologies, I work towards intelligent geospatial analytics merging remotely sensed data, navigation technologies, informatics and GIS together, which are proving a strong platform to progress towards sustainable smart societies, through research, development and teaching. Previously, I was a Marie Curie Postdoc Fellow on data-driven innovation at Edinburgh University under TRAIN@ED project working with peace-building processes compiling spatial data collected online, using AI, NLP and geo-visualization. This was aimed towards setting up a data centered research centre “PeaceTech Edinburgh” to aid United Nations peace-building tasks through geospatial intelligence. Detailed work background can be found here.
Works within
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Jech J, Komarkova J, Bhattacharya D. Comparison of Automatic Classification Methods for Identification of Ice Surfaces from Unmanned-Aerial-Vehicle-Borne RGB Imagery. Applied Sciences (Switzerland). 2023 Oct 17;13(20):11400. doi: 10.3390/app132011400 |
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Mishra S, Bhattacharya D, Chaturvedi A, Singh N. Assessing micro-mobility services in pandemics for studying the 10-minutes cities concept in India using geospatial data analysis: An application. In Berres A, Kurte K, Xu H, editors, IWCTS '22: Proceedings of the 15th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Computational Transportation Science. ACM. 2022. p. 50-59. 3 doi: 10.1145/3557991.3567788 |
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Mishra S, Singh V, Gupta A, Bhattacharya D, Mudgal A. Adaptive traffic signal control for developing countries using fused parameters derived from crowd-source data. Transportation Letters. 2022 Mar 13. Epub 2022 Mar 13. doi: 10.1080/19427867.2022.2050493 |
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Bhattacharya D, Badanjak S, Bell C, Knaussel F, Wise L, Allison J et al. Designing an interactive real-time web-mapped dashboard to visualise conflict ceasefires data over COVID-19 infection rates: Facilities and the way ahead. In GHTC 2021 Proceedings. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. 2021. p. 200-207. (IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference). Epub 2021 Nov 30. doi: 10.1109/GHTC53159.2021.9612457 |
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Mishra S, Singh N, Bhattacharya D. Application-based COVID-19 micro-mobility solution for safe and smart navigation in pandemics. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information. 2021 Aug 23;10(8):571. doi: 10.3390/ijgi10080571 |
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Allison J, Badanjak S, Bach B, Bell C, Bhattacharya D, Knaussel F et al. An interactive tracker for ceasefires in the time of COVID-19. The Lancet Infectious Diseases. 2020 Dec 14. Epub 2020 Dec 14. doi: 10.1016/S1473-3099(20)30932-4 |
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Trilles S, Granell C, Degbelo A, Bhattacharya D. Interactive guidelines: Public communication of data-based research in cities. PLoS ONE. 2020 Jan 31;15(1):e0228008. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0228008 |
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Degbelo A, Granell C, Trilles S, Bhattacharya D, Wissing J. Tell me how my open data is re-used: Increasing transparency through the open city toolkit. In Hawken S, Han H, Petit C, editors, Open Cities | Open Data: Collaborative Cities in the Information Era. 1 ed. Palgrave Macmillan. 2019. p. 311-330 doi: 10.1007/978-981-13-6605-5_14 |
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Bhattacharya D, Degbelo A, Granell C, Trilles S, Kray C. The Open City Toolkit in Zenodo. 2019. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.2561665 |
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Bhattacharya D, Painho M. Location intelligence for augmented smart cities integrating sensor web and spatial data infrastructure (SmaCiSENS). In Grueau C, Laurini R, Ragia L, editors, GISTAM 2018 - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Geographical Information Systems Theory, Applications and Management. SCITEPRESS. 2018. p. 282-289. (GISTAM 2018 - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Geographical Information Systems Theory, Applications and Management). doi: 10.5220/0006786102820289 |
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Mishra S, Bhattacharya D, Gupta A. Congestion adaptive traffic light control and notification architecture using Google maps APIs. Data. 2018 Dec 14;3(4):67. doi: 10.3390/data3040067 |
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Bhattacharya D, Trilles S, Granell C, Degbelo A. KD 10 Public Open City Toolkit prototype: GEO-C - Joint Doctorate in Geoinformatics: Enabling Open Cities Funded by the EU - Grant Agreement Number 642332 — GEO-C — H2020-MSCA-ITN-2014. 2018. 21 p. |
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Mishra S, Singh V, Bhattacharya D. Framework for freight truck return-trip assignment system. In Kothapalli K, Altintas I, Goel S, Aluru S, Bhowmick S, Prasad S, Saxena V, Govindaraju M, Bogaerts S, Kalyanaraman A, Sarangi SR, Bera D, Abramson D, editors, 2018 11th International Conference on Contemporary Computing, IC3 2018. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. 2018. 8530500. (2018 11th International Conference on Contemporary Computing, IC3 2018). doi: 10.1109/IC3.2018.8530500 |
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Mishra S, Bhattacharya D, Gupta A, Singh VR. Adaptive traffic light cycle time controller using microcontrollers and crowdsource data of Google APIs for developing countries. In 3rd International Conference on Smart Data and Smart Cities, 4–5 October 2018, Delft, The Netherlands. 4/W7 ed. Vol. 4. 2018. p. 83-90. (ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences). doi: 10.5194/isprs-annals-IV-4-W7-83-2018 |
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Bhattacharya D, Painho M. Design for geospatially enabled climate modeling and alert system (CLIMSYS): A position paper. In Winter S, Griffin A, Sester M, editors, 10th International Conference on Geographic Information Science, GIScience 2018. Schloss Dagstuhl- Leibniz-Zentrum fur Informatik GmbH, Dagstuhl Publishing. 2018. (Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics, LIPIcs). doi: 10.4230/LIPIcs.GIScience.2018.22 |
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Granell C, Bhattacharya D, Casteleyn S, Degbelo A, Gould M, Kray C et al. GEO-C: Enabling open cities and the open city toolkit. International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences - ISPRS Archives. 2018 Jul 11;42(4W8):61-68. doi: 10.5194/isprs-archives-XLII-4-W8-61-2018 |
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Degbelo A, Trilles S, Bhattacharya D. Categories of Datasets Offered by Current Open Data Portals. 2017. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.1230160 |
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Bhattacharya D, Painho M, Mishra S, Gupta A. Mobile traffic alert and tourist route guidance system design using geospatial data. In Cervantes O, Ellu C, Sol D, Agugiaro G, Zlatanova S, Laurini R, Coors V, Rumor M, editors, 2nd International Conference on Smart Data and Smart Cities, 4-6 October 2017, Puebla, Mexico. Copernicus Publications. 2017. p. 11-18. (International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences - ISPRS Archives; 4/W3). doi: 10.5194/isprs-archives-XLII-4-W3-11-2017 |
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Bhattacharya D, Painho M. Smart cities intelligence system (SMACiSYS) integrating sensor web with spatial data infrastructures (SENSDI). In 2nd International Conference on Smart Data and Smart Cities, UDMS 2017. Copernicus Publications. 2017. p. 21-28. (ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences). doi: 10.5194/isprs-annals-IV-4-W3-21-2017 |
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Degbelo A, Trilles S, Kray C, Bhattacharya D, Schiestel N, Wissing J et al. Designing semantic Application Programming Interfaces for open government data. eJournal of eDemocracy and Open Government. 2016 Dec 19;8(2):21-58. doi: 10.29379/jedem.v8i2.420 |
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Degbelo A, Bhattacharya D, Granell C, Trilles S. Toolkits for smarter cities: A brief assessment. In García CR, Quesada-Arencibia A, Burmester M, Caballero-Gil P, editors, Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence: 10th International Conference, UCAmI 2016, Proceedings. Springer. 2016. p. 431-436. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)). Epub 2016 Nov 3. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-48799-1_47 |
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Degbelo A, Granell C, Trilles S, Bhattacharya D. D.8.2 Open City Toolkit Outline: GEO-C Deliverable D8.2 - Open City Toolkit Outline 1. 2016. 21 p. |
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Bhattacharya D, Painho M. Design for connecting spatial data infrastructures with sensor web (SENSDI). 2016. Paper presented at 23rd International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Congress, ISPRS 2016, Prague, Czech Republic. doi: 10.5194/isprs-annals-III-4-33-2016 |
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Degbelo A, Granell C, Trilles S, Bhattacharya D, Casteleyn S, Kray C. Opening up smart cities: Citizen-centric challenges and opportunities from GIScience. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information. 2016 Feb 17;5(2):16. doi: 10.3390/ijgi5020016 |
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Degbelo A, Granell C, Bhattacharya D, Trilles S. D.3 Company and City Council Tours. 2015. 415 p. |
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Ghosh JK, Bhattacharya D, Boccardo P, Samadhiya NK. Automated Geo-Spatial Hazard Warning System GEOWARNS: Italian case study. Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering. 2015 Sept 1;29(5):4014065. Epub 2013 Nov 16. doi: 10.1061/(ASCE)CP.1943-5487.0000372 |
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Komarkova J, Bhattacharya D. Selected indicators and methods for evaluation of E-participation. In Erçetin ŞŞ, Banerjee S, editors, Chaos, Complexity and Leadership 2013. 1 ed. Springer. 2015. p. 261-268. (Springer Proceedings in Complexity). Epub 2014 Nov 4. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-09710-7_23 |
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Bhattacharya D, Ghosh JK, Komarkova J, Banerjee S, Kutoglu H. Distributed GIS for automated natural hazard zonation mapping internet-SMS warning towards sustainable society. Cogent Engineering. 2014 Dec 31;1(1):961346. Epub 2014 Oct 1. doi: 10.1080/23311916.2014.961346 |
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Bhattacharya D, Pasquali P, Komarkova J, Sedlak P, Saha A, Boccardo P. Interlinking opensource geo-spatial datasets for optimal utility in ranking. In Brus J, Vondrakova A, Vozenilek V, editors, Modern Trends in Cartography: Selected Papers of CARTOCON 2014. Springer. 2014. p. 159-172. (Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography). Epub 2014 Sept 30. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-07926-4_13 |
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Bhattacharya D, Ghosh JK, Boccardo P, Komarkova J. Automated geo-spatial system for generalized assessment of socio-economic vulnerability due to landslide in a region. European Journal of Remote Sensing. 2013;46(1):379-399. doi: 10.5721/EuJRS20134622 |
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Komarkova J, Spidlen J, Bhattacharya D, Horak O. Distributed processing of elevation data by means of apache hadoop in a small cluster. In ICSOFT 2013 - Proceedings of the 8th International Joint Conference on Software Technologies. 2013. p. 340-344. (ICSOFT 2013 - Proceedings of the 8th International Joint Conference on Software Technologies). |
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Bhattacharya D, Banerjee S. A Comparative Study of Four Different Satellite Image Classification Techniques for Geospatial Management. In Banerjee S, editor, Chaos and Complexity Theory for Management: Nonlinear Dynamics. IGI Global. 2012 doi: 10.4018/978-1-4666-2509-9.ch014 |
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Bhattacharya D, Ghosh JK, Samadhiya NK. Review of geohazard warning systems toward development of a popular usage geohazard warning communication system. Natural Hazards Review. 2012 Nov;13(4):260-271. doi: 10.1061/(ASCE)NH.1527-6996.0000078 |
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Ghosh JK, Bhattacharya D, Samadhiya NK, Boccardo P. A generalized geo-hazard warning system. Natural Hazards. 2012 Oct;64(2):1273-1289. doi: 10.1007/s11069-012-0296-0 |
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Bhattacharya D, Ghosh JK, Samadhiya NK. Development of a Geo-hazard Warning Communication System. LAP Lambert Academic Publishing, 2012. 270 p. |
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Ghosh JK, Bhattacharya D, Sharma SK. Fuzzy knowledge based GIS for zonation of landslide susceptibility. In Banerjee S, Banerjee S, Rondoni L, Rondoni L, Mitra M, editors, Applications of Chaos and Nonlinear Dynamics in Science and Engineering. Vol. 2. Springer. 2012. p. 21-37. (Understanding Complex Systems). doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-29329-0_2 |
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Bhattacharya D, Ghosh JK. Development of a Landslide Hazard Assessment System. LAP Lambert Academic Publishing, 2012. 72 p. |
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Bhattacharya D, Ghosh JK, Boccardo P, Samadhiya NK. Wireless hazard communication system. Journal of Systems and Information Technology. 2011 Nov 15;13(4):408-424. doi: 10.1108/13287261111183997 |
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Ghosh JK, Bhattacharya D. A knowledge-based landslide susceptibility zonation system. Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering. 2010 Jul;24(4):325-334. doi: 10.1061/(ASCE)CP.1943-5487.0000034 |
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Bhattacharya D, Ghosh JK. Erratum: "Evaluation of knowledge representation schemes as a prerequisite toward development of a knowledge-based system" by Devan Bhattacharya and Jayanta Kumar Ghosh (Journal of computing in civil engineering (2008) 22:6 (348-359) DOI:10.1061/(ASCE)0887-3801(2008)22:6(348)). Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering. 2010;24(1):127. doi: 10.1061/(ASCE)CP.1943-5487.0000029 |
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Ghosh JK, Bhattacharya D, Boccardo P, Samadhiya NK. A landslide hazard warning system. International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences - ISPRS Archives. 2010;38:261-265. |
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Bhattacharya D, Ghosh JK, Boccardo P, Samadhiya NK. A popular usage-based hazard warning system. 2010. Paper presented at 6th International Symposium on Geo-Information for Disaster Management, Gi4DM 2010, Torino, Italy. |
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Bhattacharya D, Ghosh JK. Evaluation of knowledge representation schemes as a prerequisite toward development of a knowledge-based system. Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering. 2008;22(6):348-359. doi: 10.1061/(ASCE)0887-3801(2008)22:6(348) |
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Ghosh JK, Bhattacharya D. Landslide Hazard Automated Zonation (LHAZ) system. In 12th International Conference on Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics 2008. 2008. p. 1966-1971. (12th International Conference on Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics 2008). |
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