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Supriya Krishnan Urban Planning and Climate Resilience ︎︎︎





Projects
   The Future Ground
Events
Design
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Selected Peer-reviewed work (Google Scholar)

[In Preparation] Supriya Krishnan , Nazli Yonca Aydin, Hedwig van Delden and Tina Comes. "A hybrid scenario development method for planning under uncertainty - Case of Amsterdam." (2024).

[In Preparation] Supriya Krishnan , Nazli Yonca Aydin, Hedwig van Delden and Tina Comes. "A hybrid scenario development method for planning under uncertainty - Case of Amsterdam." (2024).

Krishnan, S., Aydin, N.Y. and Comes, T., 2024. TIMEWISE: Temporal Dynamics for Urban Resilience-theoretical insights and empirical reflections from Amsterdam and Mumbai. npj Urban Sustainability, 4(1), p.4
Krishnan, S., Aydin, N.Y. and Comes, T., 2023. RISE-UP: Resilience in urban planning for climate uncertainty-empirical insights and theoretical reflections from case studies in Amsterdam and Mumbai. Cities, 141, p.104464.

Krishnan, Supriya, Nazli Yonca Aydin, and Tina Comes. "Planning Support Systems for Long-Term Climate Resilience: A Critical Review." Urban Informatics and Future Cities (2021): 465-498.

Aydin, N. Y., S. Krishnan, H. Yu, and M. Comes. "An Integrated Framework for Incorporating Climate Risk into Urban Land-Use Change Modeling." Proceedings of the 32nd European Safety and Reliability Conference. ESREL, 2022.

Krishnan, S. and Patnaik, I., 2020. Health and disaster risk management in India. Public Health and Disasters: Health Emergency and Disaster Risk Management in Asia, pp.155-184.

Krishnan, Supriya, Jiabiao Lin, Johannes Simanjuntak, Fransje Hooimeijer, Jeremy Bricker, Maayan Daniel, and Yuka Yoshida. "Interdisciplinary Design of Vital Infrastructure to Reduce Flood Risk in Tokyo’s Edogawa Ward." Geosciences 9 (8), 357 (2019).

Non-academic writing: I write on issues pertaining to India’s urbanization, climate change, resilience and challenges for conducting research on the Global South. I have published in Scroll, Business Standard and LEAP journal. Selected work here: https://supriyakrishnan.medium.com/

Leaving only this checklist below, written in May 2020 and continues to be useful.
 
The Remote Interview Checklist
This checklist is designed for remote meetings / presentations / job interviews in a post-COVID19 world. Please feel free to reuse and send comments to s.krishnan@tudelft.nl / ssrinath@cs.stanford.edu.

Before the Interview:
  1. Setup your desk so your face is well-lit (preferable natural light or a light that throws light on your face).
  2. Make sure the background is not too cluttered.
  3. For professional interviews, try not to have your bed in the background.
  4. Make space for food, water, stationery and any reference material you may need.
  5. Have slides backed up and ready to go on another machine or the cloud.

Tech setup:
  1. ︎Choose a LAN cable over Wifi. If you have multiple WiFi connections, connect to the right one - disable others.
  2. ︎Connect to multiple external displays, if available.
  3. ︎Check camera + microphone + speaker quality. Disable microphones you will not use (Control Panel> Sound)
  4. ︎Check that the monitor displays the entire presentation without cutting anything off.
  5. ︎Log out of other communication apps + Disable notifications. 
  6. Keep smartphone away or on ‘Do Not Disturb’. Microphone may pick up interference if your phone is around.
  7. ︎For group meetings / interviews, have a designated person monitor chats/ questions.
  8. ︎If you plan to record the meeting, take explicit permission from everyone attending.
  9. ︎If using Zoom, enable the optimize for videos option when sharing screen.
  10. ︎Adjust the position you want to be seen in [Example].
  11. Postpone Windows updates!

Slides:
  1. Optimize slide colors for video. Use bright colors / big fonts (24+ if teaching using a big display).
  2. Minimise animations. Check if existing animations work as expected.
  3. Check the pointer. Do not dance with the pointer on the screen.
  4. Proof-read more than usual!

Placement:
  1. Use the primary display to call.
  2.  Place the camera slightly above the primary display. Other callers must be visible on the primary display.
  3. Slide notes on secondary display.
  4. Optional: Presentation on a tertiary display (if not, then presentation on secondary and notes on primary).
  5. Consider using a TV as a backdrop display (You get to point and gesture).

During the Interview:
  1. Alternate between looking at your audience, and your notes. 
  2. Swivel your chair around, stay active or stand up.
  3. Blurring backgrounds consumes bandwidth and looks unnatural. Hide unsavoury things with plants/books/sheets or towels.
  4. Jokes may fall flat. Accept, laugh at yourself and move on.
  5. You may lose track of what to say. Keep a notebook handy and make notes before you have to respond .
  6. Connections may get interrupted. Take a mental note and restart from the slide/sentence you were cut off.
  7. A bad connection is a  safe opportunity to buy some time to think.
  8. If you teach/train online extensively, consider investing in a DSLR camera +collar microphone. 
  9. When not speaking, turn off speaker.

Example Setup 1:

If you are lucky to have plenty of space at home, convert a section of the living room into a mini-office. This one is set in the living room of Srinath with a beefy machine that could simultaneously run 3 displays.
This is a mini-office and a talk setup. The TV and bookshelf on the left make the backdrop for the presentation. You stand next to the small bookshelf when presenting/teaching and sit on the chair for interviews/meetings. Youstand on the right and project slides on the TV. (We used the TV’s speakers throughout the interview since the quality was great). If you sit facing the two displays, you see callers on the right display and notes on the left. The camera and microphone are located above and to the left of the displays respectively.
This is a mini-office and a talk setup. The TV and bookshelf on the left make the backdrop for the presentation. You stand next to the small bookshelf when presenting/teaching and sit on the chair for interviews/meetings. You stand on the right and project slides on the TV. (We used the TV’s speakers throughout the interview since the quality was great). If you sit facing the two displays, you see callers on the right display and notes on the left. The camera and microphone are located above and to the left of the displays respectively.

Example Setup 2:
If you do not have the luxury to setup a dedicated office (aka PhD student), use your console, dining chair and garden furniture to setup a temporary speaking desk.  A modest makeshift setup using furniture from around the house,  2 displays and an optional TV display. The table was aligned diagonally to make use of the sunlight. The callers and slide notes are projected on the laptop and the monitor is used to share slides. Since, there was no LAN connection, this was the closest location to the WiFi router and TV.

Acknowledgements
Some items in this checklist were adapted from various folks who shared their experience on Twitter and the Computer Science Research and Practice channel on Slack.


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