Publications CV

Education & Experiance

2009 - 2013

Bachelor of Technology

in Civil Engineering

Sri Venkateswara University

2013 - 2020

Master's & Ph.D. (Dual Degree)

in Transportation Engineering

Indian Institute of Technology Madras

2013 - 2019

Teaching and Research Assistant

Department of Civil Engineering

Indian Institute of Technology Madras

2019 - 2020

Senior Project Officer

Intelligent Transportation Systems Lab

Indian Institute of Technology Madras

2021 - 2022

Postdoctoral Research Assistant

Lyles School of Civil Engineering

Purdue University

2022 - present

Senior Research Associate

"Friedrich List" Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences

Technische Universität Dresden

Software skills

Programming/Scripting


Tools

Research Interests

URBAN FREIGHT TRANSPORT

Modeling and optimizing freight movement within cities

GREEN VEHICLE ROUTING

Identifying the optimal routes with focus on sustainability

URBAN MOBILITY ANALYTICS

Improving urban mobility using Big data

Next-Gen Accelerated Transport Planning

New generation models leveraging GP-GPU and LLM for enhanced strategic planning.

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Awards/ Honors

Scholarship

  1. K. Ganesh and Meena Ganesh Fellowship for Entrepreneurship Development from IIT Madras, July 2020 - Oct. 2020.
  2. Merit-based scholarship from Ministry of Human Resource Development, Govt. of India, Jan. 2014 - July 2019.

Travel grant

  1. Student Travel Grant, Indian Institute of Technology Madras. Sep. 2016 & Sep. 2018
  2. Alumni Funded Travel Grant, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Jan. 2017.
  3. Study visit grant from Volvo Research & Educational Foundations, Sweden, Mar. 2015.

Award

  1. Academic Grant Program, NVIDIA, Jul. 2025 - Dec. 2025
  2. Institute research award from Indian Institute of Technology Madras, 2018-19.

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