• September 2020 - Present

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

• February 2019 - Present

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

• August 2018 - December 2018

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

• January 2016 - July 2018

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

• July 2015 - September 2015

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

• August 2013 - June 2015

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

• July 2009 - June 2013

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

• 2024

  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.

• 2024

  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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 2023

  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).

• 2023

  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

• 2023

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

• 2023

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

• 2022

  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.

• 2022

  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.

• 2022

  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.

• 2022

  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.

• 2022

  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.

• 2021

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

• 2021

  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.

• 2021

  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.

• 2021

  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.

• 2021

  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

• 2021

  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

• 2021

  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.

• 2021

  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

• 2020

  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.

• 2020

  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.

• 2020

  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

• 2020

  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.

• 2020

  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.

• 2020

  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.

• 2019

  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).

• 2015

  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.

• 2014

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

• 2014

  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.

• 2022

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

• 2021

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

• 2020

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

• 2017

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

• 2015

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

• 2015

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

• 2014

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

• 2011

  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.

June - Feb 2025: Contributor (Geospatial Data Curator) in the OGC Urban Digital Twin Interoperability Pilot.

Jan - June 2024: Contributor (Geospatial Data Curator) in the OGC Climate Disaster and Resilice Pilot.

May - December 2022: Contributor (Geospatial Data Curator) in the OGC Testbed-18 Building Energy Spatial Data Interoperability (Thread 3).

June 2022 - August 2022: Visiting Scholar, Center for Urban Science and Progress (CUSP), New York University, USA (Reference: Prof. Debra Laefer).

September 2022: Expert Faculty on Geodata Modeling and Urban Digital Twins at the Masters of Technology (Geomatics) program, Center for Environmental Planning and Technology (CEPT University), Ahmedabad, India.

June - September 2021: Contributor (Geospatial Data Curator) in the OGC Interoperable Simulation and Gaming Sprint Year 2.

May 2020: Jury Member for Master Thesis Examination at the Masters of Technology (Geomatics) program, Center for Environmental Planning and Technology (CEPT University), Ahmedabad, India.

January 2020 - Present: Journal Manuscript Reviewer, Indian Society of Remote Sensing, India.

December 2014 - June 2015: Semester Abroad (Masters Thesis), University of Applied Sciences - HfT Stuttgart, Germany.