Impact of Climate Change on Social and Mental Well-Being

Dr. Muskan Garg is working as a postdoctoral research fellow at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota. She was previously working as Postdoctoral research associate at University of Florida and as an assistant professor in Thapar institute of engineering and technology, Patiala. Her research focuses on the problems in natural language processing, information retrieval, and social media analysis. She received her Masters and PhD from Panjab University, India. Prior to TIET, she worked as an assistant professor in Amity school of engineering and technology at Amity University. Her focus is on research and development of cutting-edge NLP approaches to solving problems of national and international importance and on initiation and broadening a new program in natural language processing (including a new NLP course series). Her current research interests are causal inference, mental health on social media, event detection and sentiment analysis. She contributes as a reviewer in The ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing (TALLIP) and Expert Systems with Applications, and prestigious conferences such as ACL, ICWSM, and EACL. Dr. Deepak Kumar is an academic researcher with a multidisciplinary background in Geospatial Sciences, Computational Sciences, Climate Change, and Sustainability. Currently a Research Scientist in the Atmospheric Sciences Group at Texas Tech University. Previously he served as Research Scientist in the Atmospheric Sciences Research Center at the State University of New York at Albany from August 2022 to November 2024. He's worked in the interdisciplinary research domain of the Urban-Climate-Energy nexus for policy making with humanities, social science, and technology perspectives. At Amity University, Delhi-NCR he was an Assistant Professor. His wide experience in the research development-cum-implementation pipeline comprising idea conceptualization, research design, data collection, processing, analysis, with result creation in the intersection areas of remote sensing and geoinformatics, environment, energy, climate change, urban weather and climate modelling, analysis, and visualization. He enjoys developing skills through conference appearances, outreach activities, training services and contributions to professional membership of scholarly associations.Debabrata Samanta is the Department Chair and Assistant Professor at the Department of Computing and Information Technologies, Rochester Institute of Technology—RIT Tirana, Tirana, Albania. He obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engg. in the area of SAR Image Processing. He is keenly interested in Interdisciplinary Research and development and has experience spanning fields of SAR Image Analysis, Video surveillance, a Heuristic algorithm for Image Classification, Deep Learning Framework for Detection and Classification, Blockchain, Statistical Modelling, Wireless Adhoc Networks, Natural Language Processing. He has successfully completed six Consultancy Projects. He owns 22 Patents (4 Design Indian Patents and 2 Australian patents Granted, 16 Indian Patents published) and 2 copyrights. He has authored or co-authored over 224 research papers; he has co-authored 13 books and co-edited 13 books. He has presented various papers at international conferences and received Best Paper awards. He is an IEEE Senior Member, an Associate Life Member of the Computer Society of India (CSI), and a Life Member of the Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE). Dr. Anuradha Sathiyaseelan degree in Psychology and in Rehabilitation Science from The Tamilnadu Dr.MGR Medical University from Chennai, Tamil Nadu. She has also completed MBA in Human Resource and Management. She has worked in the field of mental health for 25 years in various institutions’ such as Schizophrenia Research Foundations which is a WHO collaborative centre for research in mental health in India and Narayana Hrudayalaya. Presently working as a Professor in the Department of Psychology, Christ University, Bangalore. She is guiding research scholars for the award of Ph.D degree in Psychology in the area Psycho Oncology, Clinical psychology, Positive psychology and Health psychology. She is serving as academic council member, member of board of examinations, member of prestigious institutions such as World Association for Psychosocial Rehabilitation (WAPR) APA, SRA and other universities.

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