Rate My Professor Sanjay Lodha

Lodha's research specializations encompass data curation—accessing and identifying relevant and reliable socio-economic data—and its visualization for policy analysis and actionable research. His interests include geospatial and data visualization, imaging and lidar sensors, sensor vision, data analytics, computational social science, technology for social good, and data journalism. He pursues multi-disciplinary collaborations with stakeholders, public organizations, and research scholars to produce impactful outcomes. Lodha is co-author of The Atlas of Global Inequality and is currently co-authoring The Atlas of California. He champions an innovative pedagogy for Computer Science that stresses innovation, entrepreneurship, and community engagement to empower society via software and technology tools. Lodha mentors undergraduate and graduate students in multidisciplinary e-research, building their capacity and guiding them to co-author research works. He fosters international and remote collaborations with students from various universities, promoting equity-oriented, community-engaged research focused on policy and societal benefit.