sanjana krishnan

Research | Teaching | Data | Consulting

About

Publications

Awards and Grants

  • 2023: International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IJURR) studentship grant 2023 (~€8000)
  • 2023: Social Science Research Council Data Fluencies Grant 2023 ($15000)
  • 2022: Barnhart-Withington research award, University of Kentucky ($3000)
  • 2020: Best Paper, Changing Landscape of Securities Markets, Securities and Exchange Board of India
  • 2017: Best Master’s Research Award, Centre for Urban Policy and Governance, Tata Institute of Social Sciences
  • 2014: National Institute for Undergraduate Sciences, Homi Bhabha Centre for Science and Education (among 30 selected nationwide)

Conferences, invited talks and panels

  • 2025: Paper Presentation, Forthcoming American Association of Geographers (AAG) 2025
  • 2024: Paper Presentation, AI and the city, School of cities conference, IIIT Bengaluru
  • 2024: Paper presentation, India Land and Development Conference 2024, Pune
  • 2023: Paper presentation, "Technologies of the world's largest slum survey", AAG 2023, Denver
  • 2022: Guest lecture, “How is Mumbai using data and technology”, School of Management and Labour Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai
  • 2021: “Governing health futures: youth consultation on the principles of health data governance”, Wilton Park
  • 2020: Mechanism Design for Social Good (MD4SG), online DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.11192.37129
  • 2020: “COVID Risk Index for Pune city”, International Digital Health and AI Research (I-DAIR), virtual, Geneva
  • 2020: Changing Landscapes of Securities Market, Securities and Exchange Board of India, Mumbai
  • 2019: Data Governance Network Conference, National Law School of India University, Bangalore
  • 2019: ‘Mapping child safety’, Round Table meeting, Delhi Commission for Protection of Child Rights, Delhi
  • 2018: “Statistics for development policy”, Department of Statistics, St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai
  • 2017: 8th Annual International Conference on Climate Change, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai

Portfolio

Some examples of my data, coding and web mapping projects

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Land Ownership and Occupation in Mumbai

The map shows who owns the land that informal settlements are built on.

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Mumbai Municipal Election results

Mumbai's 2017 city government election results visualized.

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COVID relief work dashboard

Project for Tata Institute of Social Science's Community Led Action and Participation Project. The dashboard tracks covid relief effors undertaken during the second wave of COVID in Mumbai in Mar-Jun 2021.

image shows the visualization of vulnerability index produced from TISS CLAP 2020-21 survey

Vulnerability Index mapping

Project for Tata Institute of Social Science's Community Led Action and Participation Project. The project conducted a survey of 25,000 households in Mumbai's M-East Ward. The dashboard summarises results of the vulnerability index created to from the survey data.

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Repository of Mumbai's spatial datasets

Repository containing Mumbai's spatial boundary data on electoral wards (parliamentary, assembly and local body), administrative boundaries, census and basti (informal settlement) boundaries.

Contact

Hi, I am sanjana, PhD candidate at the University of Kentucky. My research is in the intersection of technology and land. I am also a computational social scientist with 7 years of experience policy and technical consulting for development sector organizations.Reach out to me at sanjana.krishn@gmail.com for projects and inquiries.

Technical skills

R (proficient in data, statistical, text and spatial analysis)
python (working knowledge)
Microsoft office
SQL
QGIS (proficient), Google Earth Engine (working knowledge)
HTML, JavaScript, CSS