Rushikesh Padsala

PhD Candidate (Buildings Engineering) @ CERC Next-Generation Cities, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada.

Scientific Researcher (GeoInformatics), Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences - HfT Stuttgart, Germany.

Consultant (Geospatial Services), Compusense Automation, Ahmedabad, India.

3D Data Analyst, GISTEC (Esri official distributor in the UAE), Sharjah / Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

GIS Operator, HOWE India PVT. LTD (Adani Group), Ahmedabad, India.

Masters of Technology (Geomatics), Center for Environmental Planning and Technology (CEPT University), Ahmedabad, India.

Bachelors of Technology (Civil Engineering), Charotar University of Science and Technology (CHARUSAT), Changa, India.

Doma, A., Padsala, R., Ouf, M., Eicker, U. (2024) Bottom-up Framework for Modelling Occupancy-based Demand-Side Management Strategies in a Mixed-Use District. Applied Energy, 375.

Padsala, R., Valger, S., Santhanavanich, T., Voss, U., and Coors, V (2024). Geo-visualisation of Air-Pollutant Dispersion in Complex Urban Environments using 3D City Models: Insights from High-Resolution Street Canyon Simulation - Concept and First Results, Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci., XLVIII-4/W11-2024

Santhanavanich, T., Padsala, R., Betz, M., and Coors, V.(2024). Dynamic Geospatial Data Integration: A Case Study of Moving Objects in Munakata City, Japan Using OGC API Moving Features and Sensorthings API, ISPRS Ann. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci., X-4/W4-2024

Padsala, R., Santhanavanich, T., Eicker, U., and Coors, V. (2024) Conceptualising an Urban Digital Twin Framework for Simulating the Impact of Household Consumption Choices on the Carbon Footprint of Urban Neighborhoods, Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci., XLVIII-4/W10-2024

Coors, V. and Padsala, R. (2024). Urban Digital Twins Empowering Energy Transition: Citizen-Driven Sustainable Urban Transformation towards Positive Energy Districts, Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci., XLVIII-4/W10-2024

Padsala, R., Banerjee, S., Belayneh, T., Santhanavanich, T., Coors, V. (2023). Conceptualizing I3S encoding for OGC CityGML 3.0 Building Model. In Proceedings of the 28th International ACM Conference on 3D Web Technology (Web3D '23).

Santhanavanich, T., Padsala, R., Rossknecht, M., Dabirian, S., Saad, M. M., Eicker, U., and Coors, V. (2023). Enabling Interoperability of Urban Building Energy Data Based On OGC API Standards and CityGML 3D City Models, ISPRS Ann. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci., X-1/W1-2023

TESTBED-18: Building Energy Data Interoperability Engineering Report (2023). http://www.opengis.net/doc/PER/T18-D012

Future City Laboratory – Impulses for transdisciplinary urban development (2023). ISBN: 978-3-940670-75-5. https://transfer.hft-stuttgart.de/pages/zukunftstadtlabor/website/home/

Santhanavanich T, Padsala R, Würstle P, Coors V (2022). The Spatial Data Infrastructure of an Urban Digital Twin in the Building Energy Domain Using OGC Standards. In: ISPRS International Annals of Photogrammetry Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Science, vol. X-4/W2-2022, pg. 249-256.

Würstle P, Padsala R, Santhanavanich T, Coors V (2022). Viability Testing of Game Engine Usage for Visualization of 3dD Geospatial Data with OGC Standards. In: ISPRS International Annals of Photogrammetry Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Science, vol. X-4/W2-2022, pg. 281-288.

Santhanavanich T, Würstle P, Padsala R, Coors V (2022). Digital 3D City Models Towards Urban Data Platform using OGC 3D GeoVolumes API. In: Three-country Conference of the DGPF, the OVG and the SGPF in Dresden, Dresden, Germany.

Bao K, Bieber L, Kürpick S, Harimisa Radanielina M, Padsala R, Thrän D, Schröter B (2022). Bottom-up assessment of local agriculture, forestry and urban waste potentials towards energy autonomy of isolated regions: Example of Réunion. In: Energy for Sustainable Development, vol. 66, pg. 125-139.

HosseiniHaghighi S, Uribarri P, Padsala R, Eicker U (2022). Characterizing and Structuring Urban GIS Data for Housing Stock Energy Modeling and Retrofitting. In: Energy and Buildings. volume 256.

Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Interoperable and Gaming Sprint Year 2.

Padsala R, Gottesroither-Geringer E, Peters-Anders J, Coors V (2021). Inception of Harmonizing Data Silos and Urban Simulation Tools Using 3D City Models for Sustainable Management of the Urban Food Water and Energy Resources. In: ISPRS International Annals of Photogrammetry Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Science, vol. VIII-4 / W1-2021, pg. 81-88.

Padsala R, Gottesroither-Geringer E, Bao K, Coors V (2021). The Application of CityGML Food Water Energy ADE to Estimate the Biomass Potential for a Land Use Scenario. In: The 26th International Conference on Urban Planning and Regional Development in the Information Society (REAL CORP 2021), BOKU, Vienna, Austria.

Würstle P, Santhanavanich T, Padsala R, Coors V (2021). Development of a Digital 3D Participation Platform - Case Study of Weilimforf (Stuttgart). In: The ISPRS International Archives of Photogrammetry Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Science, vol. XLVI-4 / W1-2021, pg. 123-129.

Brennenstuhl M, Grün M, Harbola S, Koukofikis A, Padsala R, Schaaf M, Coors V, Voss U (2021). CFD Simulation and Visualization Based Investigation of Small Wind Turbine Potential: A Case Study "Neur Stöckach" for Stuttgart. In: ISPRS International Annals of Photogrammetry Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Science, vol. VIII-4 / W1-2021, pg. 17-24

Bao K, Padsala R, Coors V, Thrän D, Schröter B (2021). A GIS-Based Simulation Method for Regional Food Potential and Demand. In: land, vol. 10 (8), pg. 880

Pietzsch U, Bao K, Padsala R, Gottesroither-Geringer E, Smetschka B, Raven J, Coors V (2021). Stakeholder-supported Research on the Food-Water-Energy Nexus with three International Case Studies. In: The 26th International Conference on Urban Planning and Regional Development in the Information Society (REAL CORP 2021), BOKU, Vienna, Austria.

Braun R, Padsala R, Malmir T, Mohammadi S, Eicker U (2021). Using 3D CityGML for the Modeling of the Food Waste and Wastewater Generation — A Case Study for the City of Montréal. In: Frontiers in Big Data, vol. 4, pg. 44

Bao K, Padsala R, Thrän D, Schröter B (2020). Urban Water Demand Simulation in Residential and Non-Residential Buildings Based on a CityGML Data Model. In: The ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information 2020, vol. 9 (11), pg. 642.

Bao K, Padsala R, Coors V, Thrän D, Schröter B (2020). A Method for Assessing Regional Bioenergy Potentials Based on GIS Data and a Dynamic Yield Simulation Model. In: Energies, vol. 13 (24), pg. 6488.

Hosseinihaghighi S, Izadi F, Padsala R, Eicker U (2020). Using Climate-Sensitive 3D City Modeling to Analyze Outdoor Thermal Comfort in Urban Areas. In: The ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information 2020, vol. 9 (11), pg. 688

Padsala R, Fink T, Peters-Anders J, Gottesroither-Geringer E, Coors V (2020). From Urban Design to Energy Simulation - A Data Conversion Process Bridging the Gap Between Two Domains. In: The 25th International Conference on Urban Planning and Regional Development in the Information Society (REAL CORP 2020), RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany.

Bao K, Padsala R, Thrän D, Schröter B, Coors V (2020). GIS-Based Assessment of Regional Biomass Potentials at the Example of Two Counties In Germany. In: The 28th European Biomass Conference and Exhibition, Marseille, France.

Würstle P, Santhanavanich T, Padsala R, Coors V (2020) The Conception of an Urban Energy Dashboard using 3D City Models. In: The 11th ACM International Conference on Future Energy Systems, Melbourne, Australia.

Padsala R, Bao K, Kesnar C, Coors V, Schröter B (2020). GIS-Based Assessment of regional biomass potentials for heat and power generation at the example of Ludwigsburg County, Germany. In: The The Food Energy Water Nexus Conference, New York, USA (Poster Presentation).

Padsala R, Coors V (2015). Conceptualizing, Managing and Developing: A Web-Based 3DCIM for urban energy demand simulation. In: The 3rd Eurographics Workshop on Urban Data Modeling and Visualization (UDMV 2015), TU Delft, Netherlands.

Padsala R (2014). Land Use Land Cover (LULC) change detector. In: The 15th Esri India User Conference, New Delhi, India.

Padsala R, Lapsiwala M, Dhimole P, Khan N (2014). Strategies and Land Use Restructuring for Transit Oriented Development in Ahmedabad, using Geographical Information System (GIS). In: The 15th Esri India User Conference, New Delhi, India.

Baden-Wuerttemberg grant for visiting researcher at Center for Urban Science and Progress (CUSP), New York University, USA.

Concordia University International Tuition Award of Excellence, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada.

Concordia University International Tuition Award of Excellence, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada.

Technical lead for Excellence in GIS Implementation (EGI Award) for a real estate project, GISWORX 2017, Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

Best master thesis award, Center for Environmental Planning and Technology (CEPT University), Ahmedabad, India.

Best performance in studio work award, Center for Environmental Planning and Technology (CEPT University), Ahmedabad, India.

Merit-based full semester scholarship, Center for Environmental Planning and Technology (CEPT University), Ahmedabad, India.

Third position for model demonstration of earthquake-resistant building in the INERTIA model-making event on advances and innovations in building technology, Center for Environmental Planning and Technology (CEPT University), Ahmedabad, India.