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Expertise in data analysis, statistics, ecology and programming.
Profile Summary
Subject Matter Expertise
Services
Writing
Technical Writing
Research
Market Research,
Feasibility Study,
Systematic Literature Review
Consulting
Scientific and Technical Consulting
Data & AI
Predictive Modeling,
Statistical Analysis,
Algorithm Design-Non ML,
Data Visualization,
Big Data Analytics,
Data Processing,
Data Insights
Work Experience
Visiting Faculty (Advanced Statistics)
National Centre for Biological Sciences
January 2019 - Present 
Visiting Faculty (Mathematics for Biologists)
National Centre for Biological Sciences
August 2018 - Present
Visiting Faculty (Information Visualization)
Srishti Institute of Art Design and Technology
September 2023 - September 2023
Science Manager (Long-Term Ecological Observatories)
Indian Institute of Science
June 2020 - October 2022
Visiting Faculty (Biostatistics)
University of Trans-Disciplinary Health Sciences and Technology
June 2019 - June 2021
Project Manager
Centre for Cellular and Molecular Platforms
April 2019 - June 2020
Post Doctoral Fellow in the 'Community and Ecosystems Ecology' lab
National Centre for Biological Sciences
March 2018 - March 2019
Research Associate at the Divecha Centre for Climate Change
Indian Institute of Science Bangalore
August 2015 - December 2017
Teaching Assistant for 'Experiments in Ecology and Evolution'
Indian Institute of Science
October 2014 - November 2014
Engineering Manager (Functional Manager for 3 product development teams - 'Virtual View', 'ICON Manager' & 'NextGen' - and Hiring Manager for 10 software engineers)
Xiotech India Private Limited (now VIOLIN)
July 2008 - July 2009
Principal Engineer (Technical Lead for 'ICON Manager' and Technical Lead for 'NextGen')
Xiotech India Private Limited (now VIOLIN)
July 2006 - June 2008
Senior Software Engineer (Technical Lead for 'DataScale SP' and Technical Lead for 'ICON Manager')
Xiotech India Private Limited (now VIOLIN)
April 2005 - June 2006
Software Engineer (Technical Lead for 'Data Overlay Camera System')
ROMER/CIMCORE (now HEXAGON METROLOGY)
September 2001 - December 2004
Software Engineer (Developer on 'PURE', a 3D renderer)
Advanced Rendering Technology (now ART-VPS)
October 2000 - July 2001
Research Assistant on the '3D Knowledge' project at the PRISM lab
Arizona State University
June 2000 - September 2000
Teaching Assistant for 'Introduction to Computer Graphics'
Arizona State University
August 1999 - May 2000
Research Assistant on the '3D Knowledge' project at the PRISM lab
Arizona State University
August 1999 - January 2000
Teaching Assistant for 'Design and Analysis of Algorithms'
Arizona State University
August 1998 - May 1999
Education
PhD (Centre for Ecological Sciences)
Indian Institute of Science
July 2009 - March 2018
Master of Science (Computer Science)
Arizona State University
August 1998 - June 2001
Bachelor of Engineering (Computer Science and Engineering)
Osmania University
September 1994 - April 1998
Certifications
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Publications
BOOK CHAPTER
(2022). Cross-Chapter 7: Tropical Forests . IPCC WGII Sixth Assessment Report.
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Sandeep Pulla, Bodi Surya Pratap Chandra Kishore, Amit Kumar, Purabi Saikia, Nikhil Lele, Parul Srivastava, Hebbalalu Suresh, Bimal Kumar Bhattarcharya, Mohammed Latif Khan, Raman Sukumar(2022). Mapping of understorey invasive plant species clusters of Lantana camara and Chromolaena odorata using airborne hyperspectral remote sensing . Advances in Space Research. Elsevier {BV}
Wills, C., Wang, B., Fang, S., Wang, Y., Jin, Y., Lut, J., Thompson, J., Harms, K.E., Pulla, S., Pasion, B., et al.(2021). Interactions between all pairs of neighboring trees in 16 forests worldwide reveal details of unique ecological processes in each forest, and provide windows into their evolutionary histories . PLoS Computational Biology. 17. (4).
Pulla, S., Suresh, H., Dattaraja, H., Sukumar, R.(2021). Plant dynamics in a tropical dry forest are strongly associated with climate and fire and weakly associated with stabilizing neighborhood effects . Oecologia.
Sandeep Pulla, Handanakere S. Dattaraja, Hebbalalu S. Suresh, Mavinakoppa S. Nagaraja, Chilakunda A. Srinivasa Murthy, Raman Sukumar, Alicia Teresa Rosario Acosta (2018). Woody plant diversity in relation to environmental factors in a seasonally dry tropical forest landscape . Journal of Vegetation Science.
Dattaraja, H.S., Pulla, S., Suresh, H.S., Nagaraja, M.S., Srinivasa Murthy, C.A., Sukumar, R.(2018). Woody plant diversity in relation to environmental factors in a seasonally dry tropical forest landscape . Journal of Vegetation Science. 29. (4). p. 704-714.
Pulla, S., Suresh, H.S., Dattaraja, H.S., Sukumar, R.(2017). Multidimensional tree niches in a tropical dry forest . Ecology. 98. (5). p. 1334-1348.
Pulla, S., Riotte, J., Suresh, H.S., Dattaraja, H.S., Sukumar, R.(2016). Controls of soil spatial variability in a dry tropical forest . PLoS ONE. 11. (4).
Pulla, S., Ramaswami, G., Mondal, N., Chitra-Tarak, R., Suresh, H.S., Dattaraja, H.S., Vivek, P., Parthasarathy, N., Ramesh, B.R., Sukumar, R.(2015). Assessing the resilience of global seasonally dry tropical forests . International Forestry Review. 17. (2). p. 91--113. Commonwealth Forestry Association
Sunderland, T., Apgaua, D., Baldauf, C., Blackie, R., Colfer, C., Cunningham, A.B., Dexter, K., Djoudi, H., Gautier, D., Gumbo, D., Ickowitz, A., Kassa, H., Parthasarathy, N., Pennington, R.T., Paumgarten, F., Pulla, S., Sola, P., Tng, D., Waeber, P., Wilme, L.(2015). Global dry forests: a prologue . International Forestry Review. 17. (2). p. 1--9. Commonwealth Forestry Association
Chitra-Tarak, R., Ruiz, L., Pulla, S., Dattaraja, H.S., Suresh, H.S., Sukumar, R.(2015). And yet it shrinks: A novel method for correcting bias in forest tree growth estimates caused by water-induced fluctuations . Forest Ecology and Management. 336. p. 129-136.
Chisholm, R.A., Condit, R., Rahman, K.A., Baker, P.J., Bunyavejchewin, S., Chen, Y.-Y., Chuyong, G., Dattaraja, H.S., Davies, S., Ewango, C.E.N., et al.(2014). Temporal variability of forest communities: Empirical estimates of population change in 4000 tree species . Ecology Letters. 17. (7). p. 855-865.
Chisholm, R.A., Muller-Landau, H.C., Abdul Rahman, K., Bebber, D.P., Bin, Y., Bohlman, S.A., Bourg, N.A., Brinks, J., Bunyavejchewin, S., Butt, N., et al.(2013). Scale-dependent relationships between tree species richness and ecosystem function in forests . Journal of Ecology. 101. (5). p. 1214-1224.
Rao, K.S., Sringeswara, A.N., Kumar, D., Pulla, S., Sukumar, R.(2012). A digital herbarium for the flora of Karnataka . Current Science. 102. (9). p. 1268.
DISSERTATION THESIS
Pulla, S.(2018). The structure and dynamics of a tropical dry forest plant community . Indian Institute of Science.
Pulla, S.(2001). Curvature based segmentation of 3-dimensional meshes . Arizona State University.
OTHER
Pulla, S., Riotte, R., Suresh. H.S., Dattaraja, H.S., Sukumar, R.(2016). Spatial variability of soils in a seasonally dry tropical forest .
Pulla, S., Razdan, A., Farin, G.(2001). Improved Curvature Estimation for Watershed Segmentation of 3-Dimensional Meshes .
REPORT
Blackie, R., Baldauf, C., Gautier, D., Gumbo, D., Kassa, H., Parthasarathy, N., Paumgarten, F., Sola, P., Pulla, S., Waeber, P.O., Sunderland, T.(2014). Tropical dry forests: The state of global knowledge and recommendations for future research .
Dattaraja, H.S., Pulla, S., Mondal, N., Suresh, H.S., Bharanaiah, C.M., Sukumar, R.(2013). Spatial interpolation of rainfall for Mudumalai wildlife sanctuary and tiger reserve, Tamil Nadu, India . Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science.
CONFERENCE PAPER
Waeber, P., Ramesh, B.R., Parthasarathy, N., Pulla, S., Garcia, C.(2012). Seasonally dry tropical forests in South Asia: A research agenda. A research agenda to contribute to the discussions on “Key Issues for the Global Dry Forests” workshop organized by CIFOR/For Dev in Zurich. p. 155--160.
PATENT
Pulla Sandeep, Eaton Homer(2005). Transprojection of geometry data . US 2005/0151963 A1
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