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Debayan Mandal

Assistant Teaching Professor • GIScience & Digital Twins Researcher

I build geospatial digital twins and resilience models to help communities navigate disasters. My research blends GIScience, CyberGIS, remote sensing, GeoAI and data visualization.

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Highlights

Research Interests

  • Geospatial Digital Twins
  • Cyber GIScience & GeoAI
  • GIScience & Remote Sensing
  • Disaster Resilience & Social Sensing

Current Appointment

Assistant Teaching Professor
School of Geographical Sciences & Urban Planning, Arizona State University
2025–present

Recent Work

FlowsDT: A Geospatial Digital Twin for Navigating Urban Flood Dynamics. Read the paper →

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ASU campus
At ASU

Research Focus

GIScience, CyberGIS, and Digital Twins for disaster resilience; social sensing, big geospatial data, and community risk modeling at multiple scales.

Teaching Focus

GIS & Remote Sensing, Data Science, Programming (Python, MATLAB, JavaScript), and applied courses that help students build practical spatial problem-solving skills.