Krishna is a spatial data science researcher and architect. His research focuses on high-resolution population and socio-economic mapping and urban hydrology. He has been working on methods for mapping population at 30m resolution, analyzing inequality in access to domestic piped water supply and estimating urban groundwater budgets. Krishna is also Principal Investigator for the India Data Cube project which is funded by an Amazon Web Services cloud credit grant. As part of this, he leads a team that is using statistical and machine learning methods to develop national scale time series datasets of land cover, population and socio-economic indicators. He has been a consultant with the Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS) since 2009. At IIHS, apart from research, he is also involved with curriculum development and teaching for the Urban Fellows Program. Krishna is a director with SPA Design, New Delhi, where he has been part of project teams that worked on the Alliance Francaise de Delhi, Anokhi Museum of Handprinting in Amber, and Triburg Headquarters in Gurgaon. Currently he is setting up a design-build practice in Trivandrum which focuses on energy and resource efficient residences.
Krishna received his B. Arch from School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi and went on to complete a Masters in Landscape Architecture and a Ph.D. in Environmental Planning, both from UC Berkeley.
