Vivek S. Kale is a former reader in geology at the University of Pune in Pune, India, and a former adjunct professor of earth sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology (B) in Mumbai, India, with more than 30 years of teaching experience. He currently is the Managing Trustee at ACWADAM in Pune and serves as the Head of Geospatial at Kalyani Global Engineering Private Limited. He is a member of Geological Society of India, the Geological Society of America, the Indian Geophysical Union, and the Indian Society of Remote Sensing.