Pakhee Kumar

PhD

Architect. Heritage Professional. Traveler. Coffee Addict. Mother of a two-year-old.

About Me

New Position at University College London

I am very happy to announce that I have started (in May 2020) a new position at the Institute for Sustainable Heritage at University College London. I am a Lecturer (Teaching) in Sustainable Heritage and Data Analysis, I teach in MSc Sustainable Heritage and MSc Data Analysis for Cultural Heritage.  

Twitter, disasters and cultural heritage: A case study of the 2015 Nepal earthquake

This article was published in the Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management. You can read this article here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1468-5973.12333. It is open access, enjoy!

Detection of Disaster-Affected Cultural Heritage Sites from Social Media Images Using Deep Learning Techniques

This article was published in the Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage. Link to the article: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3383314

Heritage Damage Assessment Demo

During my PhD, I collaborated with Ferda Ofli, Muhammad Imran, and Carlos Castillo to develop a tool that can automatically classify images of cultural heritage sites posted on social media during disasters. A demo of this tool is available on: https://aidr-heritage.qcri.org/