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2026

• 21 Apr 2026Invited talkInvited Talk on "From Satellites to Solutions" · IEEE GRSS Lahore Chapter and Remote Sensing & Spatial Analytics Lab, Information Technology University, Lahore, Pakistan
• 2026Conference paperSat2Sound: A Unified Framework for Zero-Shot Soundscape Mapping · Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition - Workshop (CVPR-W)
• 2026Software / platformGRIPS: Geospatial Research Index of Pakistan Studies · Software, v1.0.0, 2026 · DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.22807356 · MIT License
• 2026Software / platformGeoDROP: Geospatial Datasets Repository of Pakistan · Open data platform, 2026

2025

• 10 Dec 2025Invited talkInvited Talk on "GeoAI for A Changing Planet" · School of Interdisciplinary Engineering & Sciences (SINES), National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Islamabad, Pakistan
• 10 - 11 Dec 2025Invited talkIgnite Talk at Disaster Early Warning Tech Expo (DEWTE) 2025 · National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), Islamabad, Pakistan
• 25 Oct 2025TrainingAcquiring Remote Sensing Data using Google Earth Engine (GEE) · Kinnaird College for Women (KCW), Lahore
• 29 Sep 2025Invited talkGeoAI for a Sustainable Future: Harnessing Artificial Intelligence in Geography · Forman Christian College (A Chartered University), Lahore, Pakistan
• Jun - Jul 2025TrainingFrom Data to Decisions: Cloud Computing and Artificial Intelligence to Assess the Impacts of Climate Change on Water, Land, and Ecosystems · Institute of Geography, University of the Punjab, Lahore
• 05 May 2025Invited talkGeoAI · Forman Christian College (A Chartered University), Lahore, Pakistan
• 15 Apr 2025Invited talkMotivational Session for Optometry Interns on Pursuing Global Academic Excellence · Muhammadi Medical Trust Hospital, Lahore, Pakistan
• 15 Apr 2025Invited talkGuest of Honor Address at My Childhood School · Govt. Islamia High School, Lahore, Pakistan
• 31 Mar 2025TrainingData Analytics and Visualization · Population Council, Health and Population Department, Islamabad
• 17 Feb 2025TrainingData Analytics and Visualization · Population Council, Health and Population Department, Lahore
• 2025Journal articleCanopy Height Mapping in the Western Himalayas, Pakistan: A Deep Learning Approach using GEDI and Sentinel-2 Fusion · International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation
• 2025Journal articleModeling Forest Biodiversity under Climate Change: A MaxEnt Case Study of Cedrus Deodara in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan · Journal of Himalayan Earth Science
• 2025Journal articleAssessment of Air Quality Variations in Punjab, Pakistan, using Sentinel-5P during COVID-19 Lockdowns · Environmental Monitoring and Assessment
• 2025Conference paperRANGE: Retrieval Augmented Neural Fields for Multi-Resolution Geo-Embeddings · Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
• 2025Conference paperFields of The World: A Machine Learning Benchmark Dataset for Global Agricultural Field Boundary Segmentation · Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
• 2025Journal articleApplications of Artificial Intelligence in Public Health: Analyzing the Built Environment and Addressing Spatial Inequities · Journal of Public Health
• 2025Conference paperTaxaBind: A Unified Embedding Space for Ecological Applications · IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV)
• 2025Journal articleAssessment of Forest Fragmentation and Ecological Dynamics in Western Himalayan Region Over Three Decades (1990–2020) · Environmental Monitoring and Assessment
• 2025Journal articleA Comprehensive Review of Spatial Distribution Modeling of Plant Species in Mountainous Environments: Implications for Biodiversity Conservation and Climate Change Assessment · Kuwait Journal of Science
• 2025DatasetWHiCH (Western Himalaya Canopy Height) Map 2020, Pakistan · Zenodo, 2025 · DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18056032
• 2025DatasetFields of The World (FTW): Global Agricultural Field Boundary Benchmark · Benchmark dataset, 2025 (AAAI-25)

2024

• Dec 09–13, 2024ConferenceAmerican Geophysical Union (AGU) Annual Meeting 2024 · Washington D.C., USA
• Sep 12, 2024ConferenceGeo-Resolution Conference 2024 · St. Louis, Missouri, USA
• Jun 17–21, 2024ConferenceComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Conference 2024 · Seattle, Washington, USA
• May 22, 2024ConferenceTaylor Geospatial Institute's (TGI) 1^st Town Hall Event 2024 · St. Louis, Missouri, USA
• 2024Conference paperPSM: Learning Probabilistic Embeddings for Multi-scale Zero-Shot Soundscape Mapping · Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) International Conference on Multimedia
• 2024Conference abstractImproved Canopy Vertical Structural Diversity Mapping Across Varied Topographies Using Deep Learning Techniques · American Geophysical Union (AGU)
• 2024Conference abstractClimSatDiff: Synthesizing the Earth's Surface Conditioned on Climatic Variables using Diffusion Models · American Geophysical Union (AGU)
• 2024Conference abstractFields of The World (FTW!): A New Machine Learning Dataset for Agricultural Field Boundary Segmentation on Four Continents · American Geophysical Union (AGU)
• 2024Journal articleGeospatial Modelling of Ambient Air Pollutants and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Diseases at Regional Scale in Pakistan · Environmental Monitoring and Assessment
• 2024Journal articleSpatial Evaluation of Waste Disposal Site Selection using GIS-Based MultiCriteria Analysis: A Case Study of Dera Ghazi Khan District, Pakistan · Indonesian Journal of Geography
• 2024Conference paperGEOBIND: Binding Text, Image, and Audio through Satellite Images · IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)
• 2024Journal articleCA-ANN Based LULC Prediction and Influence Assessment on LST-NDVI using Multi-Temporal Satellite Images · Environmental Earth Sciences
• 2024Conference paperSat2Cap: Mapping Fine-Grained Textual Descriptions from Satellite Images · Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition - Workshop (CVPR-W) · Best Paper Award
• 2024DatasetNational-Scale Soil Erosion Dataset of Pakistan (2005 and 2015) at 1 km Spatial Resolution · Zenodo, 2024 · DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10694225

2023

• 2023Journal articleDelineation of Groundwater Potential Zones with Analytic Hierarchy Process based Geospatial Modelling Approach in Metropolitan Expanse · Desalination and Water Treatment
• 2023PreprintLD-SDM: Language-Driven Hierarchical Species Distribution Modeling · Preprint
• 2023Journal articleIndex-Based Spatiotemporal Assessment of Water Quality in Tarbela Reservoir, Pakistan (1990− 2020) · Geography, Environment, Sustainability
• 2023Book chapterPotential Tree Species Distribution Modelling using MaxEnt Model for Resource Partitioning in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK), Pakistan · In Concepts and Applications of Remote Sensing in Forestry

2022

• 2022Journal articleGIS-based Landslide Susceptibility Mapping using Analytical Hierarchy Process: A Case Study of Astore Region, Pakistan · EQA - International Journal of Environmental Quality
• 2022Journal articleRole of Geospatial Technology in Crime Mapping & Analysis: A Case Study of District Kasur, Punjab, Pakistan · International Journal of Innovations in Science & Technology
• 2022Journal articleChanges in Monthly Streamflow in the Hindukush–Karakoram–Himalaya Region of Pakistan using Innovative Polygon Trend Analysis · Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment
• 2022Popular articleLahore, the city of gardens, has lost 70% of its tree cover (باغوں کا شہر لاہور اپنے 70 فیصد درختوں سے محروم ہو چکا ہے) · Express Sunday Magazine
• 2022Book chapterSpatiotemporal Urban Sprawl and Land Resource Assessment using Google Earth Engine Platform in Lahore District, Pakistan · In Computers in Earth and Environmental Sciences
• 2022Journal articleImpact Assessment of Land Cover and Land Use Changes on Soil Erosion Changes (2005–2015) in Pakistan · Land Degradation & Development

2021

• Mar 11–13, 2021Conference16^th All Pakistan Geographical Conference (APGC) 2021 · University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan · Conference Secretary
• 2021Journal articleA Machine Learning Approach for Accurate Crop Type Mapping using Combined SAR and Optical Time Series Data · Advances in Space Research
• 2021Journal articleA Synthesis of Spatial Forest Assessment Studies Using Remote Sensing Data and Techniques in Pakistan · Forests
• 2021Journal articleForest Aboveground Biomass Estimation and Mapping through High-Resolution Optical Satellite Imagery—A Literature Review · Forests

2020

• Oct 20–21, 2020ConferenceGoogle Geo for Good Summit 2020 (Virtual) · Online
• 2020Journal articleWeighted Overlay Based Land Suitability Analysis of Agriculture Land in Azad Jammu and Kashmir Using GIS and AHP · Pakistan Journal of Agricultural Sciences
• 2020Journal articleThe Study Of Land Cover Change Using Change Vector Approach Integrated With Unsupervised Classification Method: A Case In Duy Tien (Vietnam) · Geography, Environment, Sustainability
• 2020Journal articleThe Role Of Relative Slope Length In Flood Hazard Mapping Using Ahp And Gis (Case Study: Lam River Basin, Vietnam) · Geography, Environment, Sustainability
• 2020Journal articleAssessment of Land Suitability for Tea Cultivation Using Geo-Informatics in the Mansehra and Abbottabad District · Pakistan Journal of Scientific & Industrial Research Series A: Physical Sciences
• 2020Book chapterAssessing the Impact of Land Use and Land Cover (LULC) Changes on the Biodiversity of River Ravi, Lahore—Pakistan · In Making Green Cities

2019

• Nov 2019ConferenceGIS Day 2019 & Platinum Jubilee of the Department of Geography · University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan · Organizer
• Apr 18–23, 2019ActivityDemographic Field Survey with Final-Year Geography Students · Villages around Islamabad, Pakistan · Field Supervisor
• 2019Journal articleUse of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for 3D topographic Mapping and Monitoring the Air Quality of Open-pit Mines · Inżynieria Mineralna – Journal of the Polish Mineral Engineering Society
• 2019Journal articleAssessment of Smog Pattern and its Effects on Visibility in Lahore Using Remote Sensing and GIS · International Journal of Economic and Environmental Geology

2018

• Nov 2018Invited talkSeminar on “Geospatial Industry Future and Remote Sensing” · Forman Christian College (A Chartered University), Lahore, Pakistan
• 2018Journal articleDesigning Observation Lines: A Case Study of the G9 Seam in the Mong Duong Colliery · Journal of Mining and Earth Sciences
• 2018Popular articleLahore is Losing its Green Cover — Fast · MIT Technology Review Magazine

2017

• Nov 22, 2017ActivityGala dé Carte: Celebrating GIS Day 2017 · Forman Christian College (A Chartered University), Lahore, Pakistan · Organizer
• Nov 16, 2017ActivityGeo Awareness Week: FCCU Mapathon’17 · Forman Christian College (A Chartered University), Lahore, Pakistan · Advisor, Dean Geographical Society
• Oct 23, 2017ActivityTalk on the Geopolitical Importance of CPEC · Forman Christian College (A Chartered University), Lahore, Pakistan · Advisor, Dean Geographical Society
• Oct 05–06, 2017ConferenceInternational Conference on Geo-Spatial Technologies and Earth Resources (GTER) 2017 · Hanoi, Vietnam · Oral Presentation
• May 11, 2017ActivitySeminar on Remote Sensing of Land · Forman Christian College (A Chartered University), Lahore, Pakistan · Advisor, Dean Geographical Society
• Apr 20, 2017ActivityTechnology fusing Nature (TechNat’17) · Forman Christian College (A Chartered University), Lahore, Pakistan · Advisor, Dean Geographical Society
• Apr 01, 2017ActivityStudy Trip to the Olive Garden (Kalar Kahar) and Katas Raj Temples · Chakwal District, Pakistan · Field Supervisor
• Mar 10, 2017ActivityLecture on Digital Mapping by a JICA Mapping Expert · Forman Christian College (A Chartered University), Lahore, Pakistan
• 2017ActivityRoute Map for a Record-Attempt Cycling Journey around Pakistan · Pakistan · Cartographer
• 2017Conference paperExploring Existing Spatial Patterns of Diarrhea and Proposing New Health Unit Using GIS in District Vehari, Punjab Pakistan · In Geo-Spatial Technologies and Earth Resources (GTER 2017)
• 2017Thesis / monographEstimating Forest Tree Carbon using Remote Sensing Data and Techniques · M.Phil. thesis, published as a monograph by Noor Publishing
• 2017Conference paperAbove Ground Carbon Quantification in a Moist Temperate Himalayan Forest · First International Conference on Emerging Trends in Earth and Environmental Sciences (ETEES)
• 2017Conference paperA GIS Based Water Loss Assessment and Real Time Leakage Detection in Water Supply Pipelines of Faisalabad City · First International Conference on Emerging Trends in Earth and Environmental Sciences (ETEES)

2016

• 2016Journal articleLandfill Sites Identification using GIS and Multi-Criteria Method: A Case Study of Intermediate City of Punjab, Pakistan · Journal of Geographic Information System

2015

• 2015Journal articleAssessment of Transit Stops Service Area using Geographical Information System – A Case Study of Punjab University Transportation · Pakistan Journal of Science

2013

• 2013Conference paperAssessment of Transit Stop Service Area using GIS: A Case Study of Punjab University Transportation · International Conference on Aerospace Science and Engineering (ICASE)
• 2013Conference paperMulti-Criteria based Landfill Sites Identification by using GIS: A Case Study of Sahiwal Tehsil, Pakistan · International Conference on Aerospace Science and Engineering (ICASE)
• 2013Conference paperMorphometric Relation to the Geological Structures of Haro River Drainage Basin, Northern Pakistan · 10th Meeting of the Saudi Society for Geosciences: Geosciences for Sustainable Development
• 2013Journal articleAssessment of Neighborhood Parks using GIS Techniques in Sheikhupura City · Pakistan Journal of Science

2012

• 2012Conference paperAnalyzing health facility localities in relation with population distribution using GIS techniques for Lahore city · 5th National Undergraduate Medical Research Fair