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Lab Updates
Lab Updates
🔹 2025
🔹 2025
🚲 [ICSSR Grant]
Project: CC-MAP – Commuter-Centric App for E-Bike Sharing
Role: Co-PI | Funding: ₹7.5 Million | Duration: 2025–2028
Developing digital tools for improving access and adoption of electric bicycle systems.
🚸 [Mahakumbh Multimodal Transportation Project]
Agency: Ministry of Urban Development, Govt. of UP
Role: PI | Funding: ₹4.00 Million
Planning for multimodal transport, pedestrian access, and traffic management during Mahakumbh 2025.
🧪 [Work Zone Safety Research Grant]
Funded by: IIT (BHU)
Role: PI | Funding: ₹1.00 Million | Duration: 2024–2026
Virtual environments for evaluating construction work zone safety.
🧠 [Passenger Car Unit (PCU) Project – MoRTH]
Role: Co-PI | Funding: ₹2.05 Million
Developing PCU values suited to Indian mixed traffic.
🏆 [Equimobility Champion – WRI India]
WRI Ross Center's 2024 Cohort towards gender-inclusive mobility systems under
🔹 2023
🔹 2023
🏅 [Best Thesis Award – TRG]
Awarded by Transportation Research Group of India at CTRG 2023 in Surat.
🛣️ [Freight Handbook – MoRTH]
Role: PI | Funding: ₹2.12 Million | Duration: 2023–2026
Developing a national freight transportation planning manual.
🚢 [DST Indo-Austria Project – Inland Waterways]
Role: PI | Funding: ₹1.72 Million
A binational effort to support inland water freight modal shift.
🔹 2022
🔹 2022
🌍 [DST–NSF Grant]
Project: “Making Transit Accessible to All”
Role: PI | Funding: ₹1.99 Million
Focused on fairness and equity in data-driven transit planning.
🔹 2021
🔹 2021
🏛️ [Faculty Appointment – IIT (BHU)]
Joined as Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering Department, and founded SCULPT Lab.
🔹 2020
🔹 2020
🌏 [Young Leader in Sustainable Transport Award]
From SLOCAT & VREF for policy advocacy in low-carbon mobility.
🎓 [Ph.D. Defense – BITS Pilani]
Thesis on Freight (Trip) Generation: Modelling & Externalities.
🏆 [Best Paper Award – TRB AT015 Committee]
For research on freight demand and business characteristics at TRB Annual Meeting, Washington D.C.
🔹 2019
🔹 2019
🇺🇸 [Postdoc Fellowship – University of Memphis]
Worked on autonomous delivery robots and sustainable logistics.
🔹 2018
🔹 2018
🇯🇵 [JASSO Visiting Researcher – Hiroshima University]
Funded international research visit for study on autonomous mobility for elderly users.
5-day Short-Term Course on
5-day Short-Term Course on
"Advanced Data Analytics and Cyber-Physical Systems for Urban Mobility"
"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
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 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
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
Podcasts
Science and Technology (S&T) research podcast is planned as a part of our group's activities. Stay tuned!
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