UMARU, Emmanuel Tanko received his PhD in Urban and Regional Planning (Urban Health) from the Universiti Teknologi Malaysia in 2015. He is an Associate Professor of Urban Planning in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, School of Environmental Technology, Federal University of Technology Minna, Nigeria. He is also the Deputy Director of the West African Science Service Centre on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use (WASCAL) Federal University of Technology Minna, Niger State, Nigeria. His research interests include Urban Health, Urban Modeling, Climate Change and Migration, and IOT in Climate Science. He is registered with the Nigerian Institute of Town Planners (NITP) and the Town Planners Registration Council (TOPREC). He is presently supervising and co-supervising PhD and Masters students. In addition, he has supervised over 90 final-year research projects to completion. He has published over 35 articles in international and national journals and conference proceedings. Dr. E. T. Umaru's publications have been cited about 189 times (Google Scholar database); he has an author h-index of 8 (Google Scholar database) and h-index of 2 in the Scopus database with 27 citations from 2012 to 2024. Dr. Umaru currently serves as a reviewer for many journals and conferences. He has reviewed over 30 manuscripts for various journals. In addition, he has attended several Conferences.