Assistant Professor
Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences
📍 5F6, AB2
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Research Area
Natural Hazards, Geomorphology, Remote Sensing and GIS, Disaster Mitigation
Research Interests
Heading the Geomorphology of Mountains and Valleys (GEOM) laboratory, my research is centered on unraveling the intricate dynamics of landslides across various geological settings. We also aim to understand the multifaceted influences shaping co-seismic, post-seismic, and rainfall-induced landslides within diverse orogenic landscapes. The geomorphic imprints of catastrophic landslides, their influence on sediment budgets at local and basin-wide scales, and ways to minimize vulnerability and risks are other key areas of our focus, in particular to explore their impact on fluvial incision within headwater streams. We employ an integrative approach encompassing fieldwork, remote sensing techniques, and laboratory analyses, supplemented by cutting-edge machine learning models for analyzing extensive datasets.
We're also undertaking a pioneering project aimed at developing near-real-time early warning systems to mitigate landslide hazards in the Indian Himalayas and Western Ghats. This initiative involves synergizing outputs from the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model with a comprehensive landslide database, offering a proactive strategy to enhance preparedness and resilience in landslide-prone regions. Through our interdisciplinary approach and innovative methodologies, we aim to contribute meaningfully to the understanding and management of landslide hazards in mountainous terrains.
Since 2021 : Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Mohali, India
2020 - 2021 : Post-Doctoral Researcher, Center for Climate Change Adaptation, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Japan
2018 - 2020 : Post-Doctoral Researcher, State Key Laboratory of Geohazard Prevention and Geoenvironment Protection, Chengdu University of Technology, China
2015 - 2018 : Assistant Professor, Aligarh Muslim University, India
2014 - 2015 : Post-Doctoral Researcher, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Japan
2011 - 2014 : Ph.D, The University of Tokyo, Japan
2007 - 2009 : MSc Geoinformatics, Center for Remote Sensing, Bharathidasan University, India
2004 - 2007 : BSc (Hons) Geology, Aligarh Muslim University, India
Monbukagakusho Fellowship from the Government of Japan to pursue doctoral studies at the University of Tokyo, Japan. (April 2011– September 2014).
Tamil Nadu Government Endowment Award (2009) for securing First Rank; MSc Geoinformatics, Bharathidasan University, India.
Ali P Yunus, Chen Xinyu, Filippo Catani, Srikrishnan Siva Subramaniam, Xuanmei Fan, Dou Jie, KS Sajinkumar, Ankita Gupta and Ram Avtar. Earthquake-induced soil landslides: volume estimates and uncertainties with the existing scaling exponents. Scientific Reports 13(1):8151, 2023.
Xuanmei Fan, Ali P Yunus, Ying-Hui Yang, Srikrishnan Siva Subramanian, Chengbin Zou, Lanxin Dai, Xiangyang Dou, Allu Chinna Narayana, Ram Avtar, Qiang Xu and others. Imminent threat of rock-ice avalanches in High Mountain Asia. Science of the Total Environment 836:155380, 2022.
Ali P Yunus, Yoshifumi Masago, Julien Boulange and Yasuaki Hijioka. Natural and anthropogenic forces on suspended sediment dynamics in Asian estuaries. Science of The Total Environment 836:155569, 2022.
Xuanmei Fan, Ali P Yunus, Gianvito Scaringi, Filippo Catani, Srikrishnan Siva Subramanian, Qiang Xu and Runqui Huang. Rapidly evolving controls of landslides after a strong earthquake and implications for hazard assessments. Geophysical Research Letters 48(1):e2020GL090509, 2021.
Ali P Yunus, Xuanmei Fan, Srikrishnan Siva Subramanian, Dou Jie and Qiang Xu. Unraveling the drivers of intensified landslide regimes in Western Ghats, India. Science of the total environment 770:145357, 2021.
Xuanmei Fan, Anja Dufresne, Srikrishnan Siva Subramanian, Alexander Strom, Reginald Hermanns, Carlo Tacconi Stefanelli, Kenneth Hewitt, Ali P Yunus, Stuart Dunning, Lucia Capra and others. The formation and impact of landslide dams–State of the art. Earth-Science Reviews 203:103116, 2020.
Jie Dou, Ali P Yunus, Abdelaziz Merghadi, Ataollah Shirzadi, Hoang Nguyen, Yawar Hussain, Ram Avtar, Yulong Chen, Binh Thai Pham and Hiromitsu Yamagishi. Different sampling strategies for predicting landslide susceptibilities are deemed less consequential with deep learning. Science of the total environment 720:137320, 2020.
Ali P Yunus, Xuanmei Fan, Xiaolu Tang, Dou Jie, Qiang Xu and Runqiu Huang. Decadal vegetation succession from MODIS reveals the spatio-temporal evolution of post-seismic landsliding after the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake. Remote Sensing of Environment 236:111476, 2020.
Ali P Yunus, Yoshifumi Masago and Yasuaki Hijioka. COVID-19 and surface water quality: Improved lake water quality during the lockdown. Science of the Total Environment 731:139012, 2020.
Jie Dou, Ali P Yunus, Dieu Tien Bui, Abdelaziz Merghadi, Mehebub Sahana, Zhongfan Zhu, Chi-Wen Chen, Khabat Khosravi, Yong Yang and Binh Thai Pham. Assessment of advanced random forest and decision tree algorithms for modeling rainfall-induced landslide susceptibility in the Izu-Oshima Volcanic Island, Japan. Science of the total environment 662:332–346, 2019.