Amar Nayegandhi

Amar Nayegandhi, CP, CMS, GISP is global head of technology and innovation at Woolpert. He is responsible for aligning, optimizing, integrating, and expanding Woolpert’s technology portfolio across its globally integrated architecture, engineering, and geospatial practice.  Amar is an ASPRS Fellow, Certified Photogrammetrist, and Certified Mapping Scientist – Remote Sensing. He also served as the director of the ASPRS Lidar Division. He co-edited the ASPRS DEM Users Manual, 3rd Edition. and authored the chapters on airborne topographic lidar and airborne lidar bathymetry. Before joining Woolpert, Amar served as senior vice president at Dewberry, where he led the firm’s geospatial and technology services operating unit. Prior to that, he managed federal coastal science and resource management contracts at Jacobs, where he developed algorithms and post-flight data processing software for government-owned research topographic and bathymetric airborne lidar remote sensors.