Since 2021, Teja Malladi has been an external consultant with the Practice Programme and Geospatial Lab at IIHS.
Teja specialises in applying spatial data science techniques to monitor changes in the urban environment, measure spatial inequalities, and to reduce disaster risks. His current work and research focuses on understanding the evolving nature of disaster risk in due to changes in hazards, exposure and vulnerability particularly in urban areas. Teja and his team have developed open-source methods and tools for mapping homogeneous neighborhoods, street hierarchy, spatial inequalities, and flood mapping at scale.
He holds a master’s degree in geo-information sciences (GIS) and earth observation (EO) with a specialisation in natural hazards and disaster risk management, and a bachelor’s degree in architecture. Teja is co-founder and CEO of MapSolve AI Private Limited. Teja is also Associate Director, Spatial Data Analytics at HUL. At HUL he is developing the Spatial Data Centre (SDC), that develops datasets, analysis, platforms, tools and organise trainings to meet the needs of researchers, civil society and governmental actors in Hyderabad.
From 2013–21, Teja worked with IIHS, where he led the IIHS Geospatial Lab, the centre for spatial research, consulting, and capacity building activities at IIHS, and he worked as Senior Practice Consultant with the Urban Risk and Resilience team. He leads a team of multidisciplinary researchers with expertise in geoinformatics, statistics, image processing, computer vision, machine learning and cartographic design. Prior to IIHS, he worked as a Fellow at People in Centre, Ahmedabad, where he worked on projects related to capacity building for disaster safe construction, post disaster reconstruction and rehabilitation.
