UZAIR KASHIF
GIS Engineer
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, PakistanBachelor 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