Prahlad Jat, Ph.D.

Prahlad Jat

Assistant Professor

Office locationArt & Technology Building, 2108, Gainesville

Area(s) of Expertise: Machine Learning, Spatial Statistics, Geo-spatial Analytics, Sustainable Water Resource Management, Ecological & Environmental Risk Assessment

Courses Taught

  • GISC 2012K - Fundamentals of Spatial Analysis
  • ENST 2030  -  Environmental Studies
  • GISC 4601K - Spatial Analysis for Society

Education

  • Ph.D., UNC, Chapel Hill
  • M.S. , University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
  • M. Tech, IIT, New Delhi
  • B.E., IIT, College of Technology & Agricultural Engineering, India

Research/Special Interests

  • Machine learning applications in decision making
  • Big data: geo-spatial analytics
  • Environmental quality and risk assessment
  • Mapping and visualization 

Publications

Ying Li, Jacqueline M. Gibson, Prahlad Jat, Gavino Puggioni, Mejs Hasan, J. Jason West, Will Vizuete, Ken Sexton, Marc Serre. Burden of disease attributed to anthropogenic air pollution in the United Arab Emirates: Estimates based on observed air quality data. Science of the Total Environment, 2010, 408(23):5784-5793. 

Prahlad Jat and Marc L Serre. Bayesian Maximum Entropy space/time estimation of surface water chloride in Maryland using river distances. Environmental Pollution, 2016, 219, p 1148-1155.

Mohan, Midhun, Carlos Alberto Silva, Carine Klauberg, Prahlad Jat, Glenn Catts, Adrián Cardil, Andrew Thomas Hudak, and Mahendra Dia. "Individual Tree Detection from Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Derived Canopy Height Model in an Open Canopy Mixed Conifer Forest." Forests 8, no. 9 (2017): 340.

Prahlad Jat and Marc L Serre. A Novel Geostatistical Approach Combining Euclidean and Gradual-Flow Covariance Models to Estimate Fecal Coliform along the Haw and Deep Rivers in North Carolina. Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment (2018). 

Charanjit Singh Kahlon, Bin Li, James Board, Mahendra Dia, Parmodh Sharma, Prahlad Jat. Cluster and Principle Component Analysis of Soybean Grown at Various Row Spacings, Planting Dates and Plant Populations. Open Agriculture. 2018; 3: 110–121. 

Book Chapter
Chapter 4: Burden of Disease from Outdoor Air Pollution. 2013. In: MacDonald Gibson, A. Brammer, C. Davidson, T. Folley, F. Launay, and J. Thomsen (eds). Environmental Burden of Disease Assessment: A Case Study in the United Arab Emirates. Dordrecht, the Netherlands: Springer. ISBN-10: 940075924X, ISBN-13: 978-9400759244.

Work Experience

Work Experience
  • Assistant Professor - IESA, University of North Georgia, 2019-present
  • Product Engineer -  esri, 2018 - 2019
  • Data Scientist – Monsanto company, 2017-2018
Software Development
BMEGUI (Bayesian maximum Entropy Graphical user Interface):  a Graphical Users Interface to the Bayesian Maximum Entropy Library (BMElib) used to conduct Space/Time geostatistical analysis.

Journal Editorial Board Member
  • Open Agriculture Journal
  • Journal of Spatial Hydrology
  • Agrosystems, Geosciences & Environment Journal