UZAIR KASHIF

GIS Engineer

Islamabad, Pakistanuzairkashif27@gmail.com

Geoinformatics engineer focused on environmental data science and geohazard modelling, driven by work on floods, GLOFs, and disaster resilience.

Education

National University of Sciences & Technology (NUST)

Islamabad, Pakistan

Bachelor of Geoinformatics Engineering – 3.48/4.0

2021 – 2025
  • Dissertation: AI Powered Construction Project Monitoring Through 3d Digital Twin

Awards & Honours

  • Rector’s Gold Medal: Best Final Year Design Project "AI Powered Construction Project Monitoring Through 3d Digital Twin"
  • Industrial Innovation Award IGIS: Runners up for best industrial innovation in GIS 2025

Research Projects & Skills

AI Powered Construction Project Monitoring Through 3d Digital Twin

05/2025

- Developed complete framework to assess construction progress in built environment (k-NN, RANSAC, Cesium, Meta SAM2)

Spatio-temporal roadway pollution using Sentinel-5P

10/2024

- Quantified NO₂ patterns along length of Srinagar Highway in Islamabad using TROPOMI NO₂ & OSM

Cropland classification with satellite imagery

07/2024

- Mapped cropland and compared performance of SVMs vs k-NN classifiers

Shisper Glacier GLOF back-analysis

03/2023

- Reconstructed lake drawdown and downstream flood extent using Sentinel-1/2 & HEC-RAS 2D

SAR glacial-lake change detector

12/2023

- Detected and quantified glacial-lake area change from SAR using Google Earth Engine

Professional Experience

GEOKITS LIMITED (Founder & CEO)

06/2023 – Present
  • Organized workshops to strengthen the GIS community and promote geospatial tech adoption
  • Trained over 100 students and professionals in GIS applications

GUARDIAN SPACE GmbH (GIS Engineer & Team Lead)

10/2023 – 09/2025
  • Built multi-sensor wildfire early-warning prototype integrating in-situ, optical, and SAR streams
  • Led RS/ML pipeline design and data engineering to reduce computational load by 80%

MARC STRATEGIC SOLUTIONS (ML Engineer)

02/2022 – 08/2023
  • Trained imagery classifiers for critical-infrastructure detection; cut inference time by ~50%
  • Provided actionable visual reports for prevention of Legionella outbreaks in Canada

Internships

UNDP GLOF-II

09/2024 – 10/2024

- Supported deployment of early warning systems in 24 vulnerable valleys

PLANNING COMMISSION OF PAKISTAN

06/2024 – 08/2024

- Created GIS-based dashboards to monitor national development projects

Conferences

  • Industry Roundtable on Satellite Earth Observation Regulations in Pakistan - PSARB (11/2025)
  • International Seminar on Disaster Resilient Structures - NDMA (02/2025)
  • International Conference on Applications of Space Science and Technology - SUPARCO (11/2024)
  • ARSET: SAR Applications - NASA (11/2024)

Skills

Technical: MATLAB, R, Python (geopandas, rasterio, GDAL), ArcGIS Pro, QGIS, Google Earth Engine, TensorFlow, SQL, React.js

Languages: English (Fluent, IELTS 7.5), Urdu, Punjabi, Arabic