Ritvik Sahajpal

Associate  Research Professor
Dept. of Geographical Sciences
University of Maryland
Crop Condition Co-lead at NASA Harvest
College Park MD 20742
email: ritvik@umd.edu

Dr. Ritvik Sahajpal is an Associate Research Professor at the Department of Geographical Sciences at University of Maryland, 
crop condition co-lead at NASA Harvest and a member of the data advisory council at Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research (FFAR). 
His research expertise is broadly related to using Earth observation data to monitor crop yields from field to global scales, 
modeling the impacts of conservative agriculture practices on soil health and crop yield, and mapping land-use and land-cover change and 
modeling their impacts on the carbon-climate system. Dr. Sahajpal uses both machine learning and data driven agro-ecosystem modeling 
techniques in his work. His research has been funded by NASA, FFAR, USAID and published in journals like Nature, Environmental Research Letters, 
Geoscientific Model Development and Science of the Total Environment. Previously, he was a post-doc at the Forest and Wildlife Ecology department 
at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and finished his PhD in Geographical Sciences at the University of Maryland in 2014.