Sushant Singh, Ph.D.
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Chief Executive Officer and the Founding Director
The Center for Artificial Intelligence and Environmental Sustainability (CAIES) Foundation, Patna, Bihar, India
sushant.singh@caienvsus.org
Education
Ph.D. Department of Earth and Environmental Studies, Montclair State University, NJ, USA, 2015 | Dissertation: Assessing and mapping vulnerability and risk perceptions to groundwater arsenic contamination: Towards developing sustainable arsenic mitigation models.
Ph.D. Department of Environment and Water Management, Magadh University, Bihar, India, 2010 | Dissertation: Study of arsenic contamination in the food chain- transfer of arsenic into food materials through groundwater irrigation.
M.S. Department of Environmental Science, Magadh University, Bihar, India, 2003 | Dissertation: Performance evaluation of different methods of composting
B.S. Department of Botany, Bhupendra Narayan Mandal University, Bihar, India, 1997
Ares of Research Interest
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Sustainability | AI and SDGs| AI and Water Resources Management| AI and Natural Hazards Management | AI and Rural Development | AI and Data Governance and Privacy
Training
▪ Certificate in Research Methodology for Social Science Researchers
▪ Certificate in Public Procurement,
▪ Certificate in ICT, HRD, and Rural Development in SAARC Countries,
▪ Certificate in Public Service Innovation (Master Trainer),
▪ Certificate in Training of Trainers, Certificate in Development Project Planning,
▪ International Training Course on Governance in Micro-Credit (AARDO Course), and more
Publications
2020
Fares, A. and Singh, S.K. Arsenic Water Resources Contamination – Challenges and Solutions. Springer International Publishing, Springer Nature Switzerland AG. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21258-2.
Book: 2025 Democracy in Action: Empowering Bihar Through Questions. DeepScience, India. ISBN-13: 978-81-9839164-3; ISBN-13: 978-81-983916-6-7; DOI: https://doi.org/10.70593/978-81-983916-4-3.
2023 A Scientist: Journey of a Village Boy of Bihar, Bharat (India). Clever Fox Publishing, India. ISBN-10 : 9356483418; ISBN-13: 978-9356483415.
2011 Arsenic Contamination in Water, Soil, and Food Materials in Bihar. Lambert Academic Publishing, Germany. ISBN 978-3-8443-2099-2.
2003 Environment in Everyday Life. Sustainable Development Forum, Institution of Engineers, India.
Related Professional Skills
Analytics
Research Methods & Design Development | Statistics Analysis & Modeling | Machine Learning, Deep Learning and Artificial Intelligence | Natural Language Understanding, Processing, & Generation | Image processing and classification | Generative AI |AgenticAI
Geospatial
ArcGIS |QGIS |Remote Sensing | DEM and Spatial Modelling
Cloud Computing and Visualization
AI/ML on Google Cloud Platform and AWS | Tableau, QlikView, QuickSight, R Shiny
Analytical Packages
SPSS | JMP | RStudio | WEKA | Python
Professional Associations
•Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society (RSS) (232799), U.K., 2024 – present
• Member of the Ecological Society of America (ESA), U.S., 2024 – present
• Professional Member of the Association for Information Systems (AIS), U.S., 2024 – present
• Professional Member of the Association for Computing Machinery (2262167), U.S., 2023 – present
• Member of Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Honor Society (20239992886), U.S., 2023 – present
• Member of Royal Society of Chemistry (MRSC- 726125), U.K., 2023 – present
• Member of the American Chemical Society (30046670), USA, 2023 – present
• Member of Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (2262167), U.S., 2023 present
• Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (630492), C.A., USA, 2021 – present
• International Association of Engineers, Hong Kong, 2021 – present
• The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (94014186), U.S., 2018 – present
• The International Society of the Environmental Information Sciences, Canada, 2016 – present
• Data Science Association, U.S., 2016 – present
• Water Supply & Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC), 2014 – present
• American Association for the Advancement of Science (41122816), 2014 – present
• Understanding Risk Network, 2014 – present