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Weβre not just a lab - weβre a learning community, built on curiosity, mutual respect, and a shared belief that better questions make better cities. At SCULPT, every student brings a new lens, every project sparks a new path, and every journey is better when walked together.
This is a team that builds not just mathematical models for transportation planning, but meaning - one line of code, one map, one long chai or coffee conversation at a time. And somewhere in the middle of it all is one slightly eccentric professor holding the compass :)Β
Principal Investigator
Principal Investigator
Dr. Agnivesh Pani
Dr. Agnivesh Pani
Dr. Agnivesh is an Assistant Professor in Civil Engineering at IIT (BHU) Varanasi, specialising in transportation planning. His research spans a wide spectrum of freight and public transport systems, with core contributions in freight travel demand modelling, city logistics, last-mile delivery planning, and the development of aggregation techniques and multi-objective optimisation algorithms for freight-centric zoning of cities. His recent work focuses on leveraging large-scale data, such as vehicle registrations, built environment, and app-based platforms, to address complex public transport and freight planning challenges in Indian cities. He actively integrates behavioural, spatial, and computational approaches to develop data-driven, policy-relevant insights. Dr. Pani has authored over 50 peer-reviewed publications in leading journals, including Transportation Research Part A, D, and E, Transport Geography, Transport Policy, and Transportation Research Record. His work was recognised with the Best Paper Award by the Freight Transportation Planning and Logistics Committee (AT015) at the 2020 TRB Annual Meeting. Prior to joining IIT (BHU), he was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Memphis, USA. He earned his Ph.D. and M.E. from BITS Pilani and was also a visiting researcher at Hiroshima University, Japan.
Google Scholar Profile - https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?hl=en&user=GdKQ7RoAAAAJ
PhD Students/JRFs
PhD Students/JRFs
Faijan Ali Ansari
Ph.D Student (2021-Onwards)
(Co-Supervised with Dr. Smruti Sourav Mohapatra - IIT (ISM) Dhanbad)Β
Topic: Traffic and Worker Assessment of Highway Work ZonesΒ
Hridya G Muralidharan
Ph.D Student (2023-Onwards)
Topic: Public Transit Planning and Data-Driven Behavioral Modelling
Suprava Mishra
Ph.D Student (2023-Onwards)
(Co-Supervised with Dr. Ankit Gupta)Β
Topic: Freight Transportation Planning Handbook for National & State Highways
Sukhjinder Singh
Ph.D Student (2023-Onwards)
(Co-Supervised with Dr. Ankit Gupta)Β
Topic: Implementable PCU units for heavy commercial vehicles
Ishita Pragya
Ph.D Student (2023-Onwards)
(Co-Supervised with Dr. Nipjyoti Bharadwaj - IIT BHU - IIT Guwahati JDP)Β
Topic: Truck Traffic Impacts of Multimodal Logistics Parks
Masters'/IDD Students
Masters'/IDD Students
Sanjeev V.A
Economic analysis of Indian transport users
Sumana Sree
Data-driven Transport AnalyticsΒ
Naman Kumar
Transit Planning
Sachin Rishi
Inclusivity and Urban Planning
Research Assistants (RAs)
Dedicated UG/IDD/MTech Students Working on Long-Horizon Research Tracks (1-3 Year Journeys)
Research Assistants (RAs)
Dedicated UG/IDD/MTech Students Working on Long-Horizon Research Tracks (1-3 Year Journeys)
Ayush Raj
ICSSR Project
Grid-level Mobility Project
Rajat Varshney
MoRTH Project
Growth Factors
Vedaant Gupta
Grid-level Mobility Project
Krish Kumar
Travel Behaviour Project
Apoorv
Travel Behaviour Project
Kartik Sharma
Public Choice Theory Economics
Sivanshu SuryaΒ
ICSSR Project
(NIT Rourkela)
Sudeshna RayΒ
ICSSR Project
(IISER Bhopal)
Nikhil Gadham
MoRTH Project
(MTech Student from NIT Trichy)
Gayathry N P
US-India Project
(MTech Student from KTU)
Adhithya Urmila
US-India Project
(MTech Student from KTU)
Aswini Naik
US-India Project
(MPlan Student from SPA Delhi)
Gallery
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β³ Alumni
Former PhD Students
Dr. Mayank Sukhija
Former Ph.D. Student
π Thesis Defended in 2023
(Co-Supervised with Dr. Nikhil Saboo)
Thesis: Impacts of Production Temperatures on Performance of Warm Mix Asphalt
π’Currently: Postdoc, Oregon State University
Nirmal Prasad
Former Ph.D Student
π Thesis Submitted in 2025
(Co-Supervised with Dr. Nikhil Saboo)Β
Topic: Rejuvenators and the Aging Behavior of Recycled Asphalt Mixes
Former Master's or IDD Students
Baibhav Mohanty
π Grad. 2025
Thesis: Mobility Markets Beyond Geography (MoRTH Project)
π’ Currently: Product Analyst @ Zomato
Tanushri Chauhan
π Grad. 2025
Thesis: Mobility Analytics (Public vs Freight vs Private) (MoRTH Project)
Prashant Kumar Rai
π Grad. 2025
Thesis: Urban Planning for Solid waste management (IOCL Project)
Aadil M Moopan
π Grad. 2024
Thesis: Transit Demand Algorithms and Network Design (US-India Project)Β
π’ Currently: Software Quality Engineer @ Trading Technologies
Shijith S
π Grad. 2024
Thesis: Transit Planning for Varanasi Ropeway and Dashboard Design (US-India Project)
π’ Currently: Software Engineer @ Optym
Shravan G
π Grad. 2024
Thesis: Regional Planning Models for Districts in India (US-India Project)Β
π’ Currently: Software Engineer @ TCS
Tejaswa Mishra
π Grad. 2024
Thesis: Proximity Planning and 15 Minute Cities (US-India Project)
π’ Currently: SDE @ BNY Mellon
Tejaswa Mishra
π Grad. 2024
Thesis: Transit Ridership Prediction
(US-India Project)
π’ Currently: SDE-1 @ Javis
Devang Sharma
π Grad. 2024
Thesis: Modelling of Aerial Ropeway Shift
Co-supervised with Dr. Ankit Gupta
(US-India Project)
π’ Currently: Data Scientist @ Publicis Sapient
Pankaj Gupta
π Grad. 2024
Thesis: Proximity Planning and 15 Minute Cities (US-India Project)
Gaurav Tripathi
π Grad. 2024
Thesis: Transit Ridership Prediction
(US-India Project)
π’ Currently: Engineer @ North Eastern Electric Power Limited (GATE AIR 277)
Sourav Maheswari
π Grad. 2023
Thesis: EV Charging Infrastructure Analysis
(ICSSR Project)Β
π’ Currently: Analyst at Cube Highways
Former Project Associates and RAs (Long-Horizon Research Tracks - 1-3 Years of Research Outputs)
Shambhavi Sinha
π Grad. 2025
Former RA (From SPA Delhi)
Worked on Mahakumbh Project, MoUD
π’ Currently: Incoming Ph.D. Student at Georgia Tech, Atlanta, USA
Nandini Bhimsaria
π Grad. 2025
Former Chanakya Fellow (IIT BHU)
Worked on IDAPT Project, IIT BHU
π’ Currently: Associate Consultant, MasterCard, India
Aryasen Gupta
π Grad. 2025
Former RA (IIT BHU)
Worked on the MoRTH Project
π’ Currently: Consultant, Evalueserve
Shreepati Jha
π Grad. 2024
Former RA (From SPA Delhi)
Worked on the DST India-USA Project
π’ Currently: Ph.D. Student at University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
Harsh Gupta
π Grad. 2024
Former RA (NIT Calicut)
Worked on the USA-India Project
π’ Currently: MBA at XLRI
Sai Naveen Balla
π Grad. 2023
Former JRF (From BITS Pilani)
π’ Currently: Ph.D. Student at University of Manitoba,Canada
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