Outreach

Lab Timeline

In July 2025, PI received funding from Toyota Mobility Foundation STAMP Challenge for his project "CommuteVerse"
In January 2025, PI received funding from Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) for being part of the consortium leading a project on Community-based Electric Bikesharing
In December 2024, PI received a project from Ministry of Urban Development (MoUD), Government of Uttar Pradesh regarding the Mahakumbh 2025 - "Research and engineering challenges related to arrangements for multimodal transportation, pedestrian access, and traffic management during the Mahakumbh Mela to evaluate their efficacy and identify areas of improvement"
In April 2024, PI received study visit grant from Volvo Research and Education Foundation (VREF) for a study on Urban commercial freight demand and parking
In December 2023, PI received the "Best Thesis Award in Transportation Planning" by Transportation Research Group (TRG) during CTRG-2023 Surat
In March 2023, PI received funding from the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways for developing a freight transportation planning handbook for National and State Highways in India
In July 2022, PI received funding from the US-India Collaborative Research Programme Funded by I-DAPT Technology Innovation Hub of DST and National Science Foundation (NSF)
In August 2021, PI joined IIT (BHU) as an Assistant Professor of the Department of Civil Engineering
In May 2020, PI received the “Young Leader in Sustainable Transport” award from SLOCAT (Partnership on Sustainable, Low Carbon Transport) and VREF (Volvo Research and Education Foundations)

5-day Short-Term Course on

"Advanced Data Analytics and Cyber-Physical Systems for Urban Mobility"

2023 March 13-17 (70 In-person participants and 75 online participants)

Other short-term courses

Coordinated the Short-Term Course (STC) "Safety of Rural Roads (Level-1)", Sponsored National Rural Infrastructure Development Agency (NRIDA), 11-13 February, 2022
Co-Coordinated the Short-Term Course (STC) "Advanced Techniques for Traffic Data Analysis, Visualization, and State Estimation", Sponsored by I-DAPT Hub at IIT (BHU), 20-24 December 2021

Invited Lectures

Invited Speaker at the Faculty Development Program “State-of-the-art Modeling Techniques in Civil Engineering” by Vardhaman College of Engineering in the session titled “Application of Econometric method in Travel Demand
Invited Speaker at the Short-Term Course “Data Analytics and Predictive Techniques for Urban Freight Transportation System” by IIT BHU in the session titled “Data Collection Techniques for Freight Transportation System in India”, November 11, 2021
Invited speaker at the Asia Low Emission Development Strategies (LEDS) Partnership Forum in the session 'B3: Impact of the COVID- 19 pandemic on Transport: Strategies for recovery’, September 2, 2021
Invited speaker at the School of Planning and Architecture (SPA) Bhopal for a webinar on “Last-Mile Delivery Innovations in India”, December 12, 2020
Invited speaker at the FedEx Institute of Technology “What's Next” Series on “Autonomous Vehicle Technology Shift in the Post-COVID world”, November 19, 2020
Invited speaker at the AICTE Sponsored Short Term Training Program (STTP) at Vignana Bharathi Institute of Technology on “Freight Transportation Research: An Indian Perspective and Way Forward”, November 7, 2020
Invited speaker at the TEQIP sponsored Faculty Development Program (FDP) at TKM College of Engineering, Kerala on “Urban mobility: Challenges and opportunities”, September 9, 2020
Invited speaker at the TU Delft Freight Research Webinar Series on “Freight Demand Modelling with Establishment-based Freight Surveys”, April 30, 2020
Invited speaker at the Freight Transportation Planning Committee AT-015 of Transportation Research Board for the Best Paper Award 2020 on “Disentangling the Implications of Business Age and Size on Freight Demand Modelling Paradigm”, January 10, 2020

Peer Review

Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice
Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment
Transportation Research Part E: Logistics
Transportation Research Part C: Technology
Transportation Research Record
Journal of Transport Geography
Transportation Letters
Transport Policy
Research in Transportation Economics
Journal of Advanced Transportation
Sustainability
Institution of Engineers (India): Series A

Podcasts

Science and Technology (S&T) research podcast is planned as a part of our group's activities. Stay tuned!

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