Sarbeswar Praharaj (Ph.D.) is the Associate Director (Data & Visualization) and Assistant Research Professor at the Knowledge Exchange for Resilience, School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning at Arizona State University (ASU). He is a Senior Global Futures Scientist at the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory. He works closely with the PLUS Alliance Fellows across ASU, Kings College London, and UNSW Sydney tackling global urbanization challenges with an aim to build smart, healthy, and accessible cities. Before joining ASU, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher and Manager of the City Analytics Lab at the City Futures Research Center, UNSW Sydney, Australia. Dr. Praharaj leads research on smart cities, critical urban studies, data visualization and dashboards, and resilience. He engages in research-led interactive teaching and learning pedagogies in urban planning and geographical science.

Zulfikar Dinar Wahidayat Putra is a lecturer on the Urban and Regional Planning Study programme at Gadjah Mada University, specialising in smart cities, spatial analysis, open urban innovation, and grassroots urbanism. For further correspondence, make contact via putrazdw@ugm.ac.id