Assistant Professor
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
📍 AB1-5F1
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Research Area
Microwave Remote Sensing (SAR, InSAR, MT-InSAR), Remote Sensing and machine learning for EO, Crustal deformation study, Geohazard monitoring, Groundwater modeling, Coastal study.
Research Interests
Advancement of multi-temporal InSAR techniques, investigating groundwater dynamics using satellite remote sensing, mapping inundation risk due to sea level rise and coastal land subsidence and urban infrastructure monitoring using machine learning.
2020 - 2021 : InSAR Scientist, Geoscience Australia, Canberra, ACT, Australia
2012 - 2016 : Research Fellow, IREA-CNR, Naples, Italy
2016 - 2019 : PostDoc Research Associate, School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona, State University, Phoenix, Arizona, USA
2011 - 2015 : Doctor of Philosophy in Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Rome La Sapienza, Rome, Italy
2009 - 2011 : Master of Technology (M.Tech) in Natural Resources Engineering, IIT Bombay, India
2006 - 2008 : Master of Science (M.Sc) in Physics, Delhi University, New Delhi India
2003 - 2006 : Bachelor of Science (B.Sc) in Physics Hons., Utkal University, Odisha, India
Member of the European Geophysical Union (EGU) (01/2023 - present)
Member of the International Association of Geodesy (IAG). (11/2019-present)
Member of AZ computing program Postdoc Best Practices Fellow. (08/2017-12/2019)
Member of the American Geophysical Union (AGU). (06/2016- present)
Member of Resources Engineering, CSRE (IIT Bombay). (Life member)
Awarded as a NASA Space Apps 2013 winner at Expo Milan, Italy. (10/2015)
Guest of honor from ‘Kiwanis Club’ at the innovation conference, Messina, Italy. (09/2014)
Winner of Kennedy Space Centre prize in Space App Challenge 2013. (04/2013)
Member of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing (ISRS). (2010-2011)
Won Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) in Physics (2009)
Won UGC-JRF-National eligibility test for lectureship in India (12/2008 & 06/2009)
Mumbai Chapter nominee-2010 for ISRS symposium, “GRID 2010.”
Won Bandana Award – 2005 for undergraduate academic excellence (2005)
Leonard O Ohenhen, Manoochehr Shirzaei, Chandrakanta Ojha, Sonam F Sherpa and Robert J Nicholls. Disappearing cities on US coasts. Nature 627(8002):108–115, 2024. Sonam Futi Sherpa, Manoochcher Shirzaei and Chandrakanta Ojha. Disruptive Role of Vertical Land Motion in Future Assessments of Climate Change-Driven Sea-Level Rise and Coastal Flooding Hazards in the Chesapeake Bay. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 128(4):e2022JB025993, 2023. Em Blackwell, Manoochehr Shirzaei, Chandrakanta Ojha and Susanna Werth. Tracking California’s sinking coast from space: Implications for relative sea-level rise. Science advances 6(31):eaba4551, 2020. Chandrakanta Ojha, Susanna Werth and Manoochehr Shirzaei. Recovery of aquifer-systems in Southwest US following 2012–2015 drought: Evidence from InSAR, GRACE and groundwater level data. Journal of Hydrology 587:124943, 2020. Manoochehr Shirzaei, Chandrakanta Ojha, Susanna Werth, Grace Carlson and Enrique R Vivoni. Comment on “Short-lived pause in Central California subsidence after heavy winter precipitation of 2017” by KD Murray and RB Lohman. Science Advances 5(6):eaav8038, 2019. Chandrakanta Ojha, Susanna Werth and Manoochehr Shirzaei. Groundwater loss and aquifer system compaction in San Joaquin Valley during 2012–2015 drought. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 124(3):3127–3143, 2019. Chandrakanta Ojha, Manoochehr Shirzaei, Susanna Werth, Donald F Argus and Tom G Farr. Sustained Groundwater loss in California's Central Valley exacerbated by intense drought periods. Water Resources Research, 2018. SILVIA Scifoni, M Bonano, M Marsella, ALBERICO Sonnessa, Vincenzo Tagliafierro, M Manunta, R Lanari, CHANDRAKANTA Ojha and Maurizio Sciotti. On the joint exploitation of long-term DInSAR time series and geological information for the investigation of ground settlements in the town of Roma (Italy). Remote Sensing of Environment 182:113–127, 2016. Chandrakanta Ojha, Michele Manunta, Riccardo Lanari and Antonio Pepe. The constrained-network propagation (C-NetP) technique to improve SBAS-DInSAR deformation time series retrieval. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing 8(10):4910–4921, 2015.