Abhisek Maiti completed his masters in Earth Observation and joined as a PhD researcher at Faculty of Geo-information Science and Earth Observation, University of Twente. Abhisek also holds another MSc degree in Computer Science from St. Xavier's College Kolkata, India.
His research interests lie in the area of active remote sensing, ranging algorithm development and implementation for LiDAR point cloud processing to SAR data calibration, processing and information extraction. He often experiments with various machine learning techniques focusing on the earth observation related applications. He is also quite interested in extending and adopting algorithms for modelling lunar and planetary environment. He actively participates in research activities and collaborative works.
In his free time he likes to contribute to the open source community or fiddle with electronics. He also likes to spend his holidays hiking in the mountains.