Dr. Rajendra Mohan Panda is an ecologist and modeling specialist with more than ten years of research experience in the fields of agriculture, biostatistics, ecology, forestry, and soil science. His broad research interests include biodiversity, climate change predictions, invasion risk assessments, spatial modeling, ecological monitoring, interactive mapping, and visualization. Rajendra has proficiencies in large spatial data analysis, species distribution modeling, machine learning, and R-software. He is a team leader with capabilities in managing Workshops and Conferences. Rajendra has more than twenty peer-reviewed publications in reputed journals and books, two of which have received media attention. Rajendra has also experience in teaching and mentoring M.Tech. and Ph.D. students.