Dr. Kamal Kumar Barik is presently working as Associate Professor in Marine Research and Development under School of Maritime Studies cum HOD, Dept. of Civil Engineering, School of Engineering and Technology, CUTM, Bhubaneswar Campus. He did his Ph.D. at SRM University, Chennai in the field of Remote Sensing and GIS. He has been more than 8 years of teaching experience at the Post Graduate level (M.Sc. and M.Tech.). Previously he was served as a Lecturer / Assistant Professor at the Dept. of Earth Sciences, Sambalpur University. He has more than 40 peer review research papers in the field of Coastal vulnerability, Groundwater Quality and mapping, Saltwater intrusion, LULC, Watershed Management, Ocean colour remote sensing etc.