Raju Vatsavai

Raju Vatsavai is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at North Carolina State University, affiliated with the Center for Geospatial Analytics. He joined NC State in 2014 as part of the Chancellor’s Faculty Excellence Program cluster hire in Geospatial Analytics.

• Education: PhD and MS in Computer Science from University of Minnesota
• Prior Roles: Lead Data Scientist at Oak Ridge National Lab, roles at University of Minnesota, IBM Research, AT&T Labs, and C-DAC (India)

His research in geospatial analytics spans big data management, spatiotemporal data mining, deep learning for remote sensing, and high-performance computing, with applications in national security, climate change, and crop monitoring.

Recent work includes deep learning frameworks for cloud imputation, multi-sensor satellite data harmonization, and transfer learning applications in crop classification. He has been a leading investigator on grants from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, Department of Energy, and Department of Homeland Security.

• Labs: Associate Director of the Center for Geospatial Analytics
• Expertise: Spatial computing, Earth observation, nuclear proliferation detection via remote sensing