Associate Editor
https://civil.iitr.ac.in/CE?Uid=gargpfce
Institutional email ID: p.garg@ce.iitr.ac.in
Emeritus Fellow, IIT, Roorkee - 247 667 & Former Vice Chancellor, Uttarakhand Technical University
Prof. (Dr.) P.K. Garg is currently serving as an Emeritus Fellow in the Geomatics Engineering Group, Civil Engineering Department at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee, Uttarakhand. He holds a B.Tech. and an M.Tech. in Civil Engineering, both from the University of Roorkee. He was a Gold Medallist at IIT Roorkee during his M.Tech. He was awarded a Commonwealth Scholarship for his Ph.D. at the University of Bristol (UK) and a Commonwealth Fellowship to conduct post-doctoral research at the University of Reading (UK). He joined the Department of Civil Engineering at IIT Roorkee in 1982, served briefly as Head of the Civil Engineering Department in 2015, and was the Vice Chancellor of Uttarakhand Technical University, Dehradun, from 2015 to 2018.
Prof. Garg's research areas include geospatial tools and techniques. He has published over 300 technical papers in national and international conferences and journals. He has undertaken 27 research projects and 94 consultancy projects, guiding about 73 M.Tech. and 30 Ph.D. theses on various aspects of geospatial tools and techniques. He holds two patents and has authored textbooks on (i) Remote Sensing, (ii) Geoinformatics, (iii) Introduction to UAVs, (iv) Digital Land Surveying, (v) Digital Mapping of Soil, (vi) Remote Sensing and Its Applications, and (vii) Surveying and Geomatics, as well as edited seven books. He has guided around 71 M.Tech. and 29 Ph.D. theses. He has played a key role in prestigious MHRD-funded projects on e-learning, development of virtual labs, pedagogy, and courses under NPTEL.
Prof. Garg has reviewed numerous papers for national and international journals. He has successfully organized 42 programmes in advanced areas, along with 10 conferences and workshops. He is a life member of 24 professional societies, of which he is a Fellow member of 8. For his academic work, Prof. Garg has travelled extensively both nationally and internationally.