Santosh Karanam
Guest Software Developer
Novel Data Ecosystems for Sustainability Research Group
Advancing Systems Analysis Program
Biography
Santosh Karanam joined IIASA in 2019 and currently works as a guest full stack developer in the Novel Data Ecosystems for Sustainability (NODES) Research Group of the IIASA Advancing Systems Analysis (ASA) Program where he develops and supports software applications to aid and enhance the institute’s research.Karanam has a Bachelor of Engineering from the Bangalore Institute of Technology in Bangalore, India, and 10 years of software development experience in companies like Honeywell and DellEMC.
Last update: 29 JUN 2022
Publications
Fraisl, D. , Sturn, T., Karanam, S., & Fritz, S. (2026). Citizen Science, the Sustainable Development Goals, and the Urban Monitoring Framework: Linking Local Action to Global Impact. In: World Urban Forum 13, 17–22 May 2026, Baku, Azerbaijan.
Hofhansl, F. , Milenkovic, M., Weinacker, R., Sturn, T., Karanam, S., Georgieva, I. , Wild, B., Pfeifer, N., Hollaus, M., Zappa, L., Bruckman, V.J., McCallum, I. , & Fritz, S. (2026). Tree-Quest: A Citizen Science App for Collecting Single-Tree Attributes. DOI:10.5194/egusphere-egu26-3906. In: EGU General Assembly 2026, 03 May - 08 May 2026, Vienna.
Georgieva, I. , Milenkovic, M., Hofhansl, F. , Sturn, T., Weinacker, R., Karanam, S., Wild, B., Hollaus, M., McCallum, I. , & Fritz, S. (2026). Tree-Quest Campaign 2025 and a Citizen-Science Tool to Measure Tree Biomass and Carbon. In: Österreichische Citizen Science Konferenz 2026, 24-26 February, 2026, Leoben, Austria.
Milenkovic, M., Hofhansl, F. , Weinacker, R., Sturn, T., Karanam, S., Wild, B., Hollaus, M., Neumayr, C., Iglseder, A., Pfeifer, N., Zappa, L., Bruckman, V., Breitfuss-Schiffer, R., Schumacher, B., Gresse, H., Joly, A., Bonnet, P., Shchepashchenko, D. , See, L. , McCallum, I. , & Fritz, S. (2025). Dataset for the analysis of Tree-Quest measurements collected in Laxenburg Park and Stadtpark. 10.5281/zenodo.18063770.
Boogaard, H., Pratihast, A., Laso Bayas, J.C. , Karanam, S., Fritz, S. , Van Tricht, K., Degerickx, J., & Van Haren, C. (2025). WorldCereal harmonized reference datasets - extended and updated. 10.5281/zenodo.17288873.