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First Webinar of Series “Sustainable Transport and Livability” 2024

Sl. No.

Speaker

Date

Speaker’s name & affiliation Title of the webinar Link 

 

1

 

7 Mar 2024

 

Dr. Aruna Sivakumar, Faculty of Engineering, Imperial College London

Accessibility metrics in urban and transport planning: Going beyond travel times and costs

 

https://youtu.be/lo1EDVRDRgk

 

 

IST Lab Alumni Webinar Series 2023

S. No.

Speaker

Date   

Speaker’s name & affiliation

Title of the webinar

 

 

1

 

 

18 Mar 2023 Dr. Hari Krishna Gaddam Role of Macroscopic Continuum Models and Fundamental Diagrams in Traffic Flow Modelling, Management and Operations
2 22 Apr 2023 Mr. Anadi Pandharkar Supply Chain Finance through a Blockchain Lens
3 26 May 2023 Mr. Vijit Vijayan Introduction to PTV VISUM
24 June 2023 Ms. Revathy Nair Modelling of Strategic Road Networks in UK using Saturn Software
5 26 Aug 2023 Dr. Punyabeet Sarangi An Assessment of The Impacts of Intrahousehold Interactions on Household Activity-Travel Behaviour
6 25 Nov 2023 Mr. Saqib Gulzar From material mechanics to systems analysis: a multiscale framework for infrastructure resilience
7 23 Dec 2023 Milan Mathew Thomas A Novel Simulation Based Approach for User-Based Redistribution in Bike-Sharing System

 

 

IST Lab Alumni Group Interview Series 2023

S. No.

Alumni Interviewee

Date

IST Lab Alumni Interviewee’s name & affiliation

 

1

 

21 Oct 2023

 

Mr. Ankit Rai, Consultant, Ministry of Railways

 

 

IST Lab Alumni Webinar Series 2022

                               Moderated by                        

event

Mr. Pragun Vinayak, Convenor, IST Lab Alumni Group
 Mobility and Transportation Analytics Consultant, Cambridge Systematics Inc. (Los Angeles)

S. No.

Speaker

Date   

IST Lab Alumni Speaker’s name & affiliation

Title of the webinar

 

1

26 Feb 2022

Mr. Nathan Keltch, Mobility Specialist, Department of Transportation, Louisville, Kentucky, USA

Complete Streets Coalition - Louisville Metro Government

3 Minute Thesis by

Mr. Furqan Ahmad Bhat,

3rd Year, PhD Student
Developing decision support framework for electric vehicle adoption and infrastructure planning

2

event

21 May 2022

Dr. Chetan Doddamani, Senior Researcher, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi

Modelling Residential Mobility Decision and its Impact on Car Ownership and Travel Mode

3 Minute Thesis by

Mr. Aitichya Chandra, 3rd Year, PhD Student

Operations Planning, Modeling and Optimization of Air Transportation System in India

3

event

11 Jun 2022

Dr. Manoj M, Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi

COVID-19 and sedentary and physical activity time use

3 Minute Thesis by

Mr. Nipun Choubey, 4th Year, PhD Student

Sensing and Data Analytics of large and unstructured crowds

4

event

25 Jun 2022

Mr. Siddhartha Gulhare, PhD candidate, University of Florida

Can Artificial Neural Networks replace Discrete Choice Models in the travel mode choice analysis

3 Minute Thesis by

Mr. Ashutosh Dumka, 2nd Year, M. Tech Student

Developing Quality of Life Index Framework to Evaluate Transport Policies at Local Level

5

Five Speakers

27 Aug 2022

Ms. Malvika Dixit,

Mr. Divyakant Tahlyan,

Mr. Pragun Vinayak,

Dr. Siddhartha Gulhare, &

Dr. Sai Kiran Mayakuntla

Job Interview, Tips, and Techniques

6 22 Oct 2022 Dr. Malvika Dixit Transit Performance Assessment and Route Choice Modelling Using Smart Card Data

7

17 Dec 2022

Mr. Vivek Yadav

Understanding Exploratory Modeling and Analysis Tool (EMAT)

                     

IST Lab Alumni Group Interview Series 2022

Moderated by

event

Mr. Divyakant Tahlyan, Co-Convenor, IST Lab Alumni Group
PhD student at Northwestern University

S. No.

Alumni Interviewee

Date

IST Lab Alumni Interviewee’s name & affiliation

 

1

16 Apr 2022

Dr. Hitendra Trivedi, Director, Hita Energy Private Limited

    

IST Lab Alumni Workshop Series 2022

                               Moderated by                        

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Mr. Divyakant Tahlyan, Co-Convenor, IST Lab Alumni Group
PhD student at Northwestern University

S. No.

Speaker

Date   

IST Lab Alumni Speaker’s name & affiliation

Title of the webinar

 

1

09 Apr 2022

Mr. Siddhartha Gulhare, PhD student at University of Florida

Tutorial on apollo package in R programming

                                                           *Moderated by Mr. Divyakant Tahlyan, Co-Convenor, IST Lab Alumni Group, PhD student at Northwestern University

 

IST Lab. Alumni Ice Breaking Session

S. No.

Date

Sessions

1

07 May 2022

One-Hour Informal Student-Alumni Ice-Breaking Session

                                                                   *Moderated by Mr. Divyakant Tahlyan, Co-Convenor, IST Lab Alumni Group, PhD student at Northwestern University

 

IST Lab Alumni Webinar Series 2021

                               Moderated by                        

Mr. Siddhartha Gulhare, Convenor, IST Lab Alumni Group
PhD student at University of Florida

S. No.

Speaker

Date   

IST Lab Alumni Speaker’s name & affiliation

Title of the webinar

 

1

 

6thFeb 2021

Dr. Sushma Srinivas, Senior Intelligent Transportation Systems(ITS)/Traffic Engineer  AECOM, Boston (USA)

 

Traffic Impact Assessment Studies – Best Practices in the US

 

2

 

6thMar 2021

 

Dr. Rahul T.M., Assistant Professor at IIT Ropar

Understanding Pedestrian           Perception of an area using LOS Index, and Identifying its impact on future Travel Decisions

 

3

 

10thApr 2021

Mr. DivyakantTahlyan, Ph.D. Candidate, Northwestern University

Disentangling Social Capital – Understanding the Effect of Social Support and Network Resources on Urban Activity Participation

 

4

 

8thMay 2021

 

Dr. Varun Raturi, Research Associate at University of Glasgow

 

The impact of privacy protection measures on the utility of crowdsourced cycling data

 

5

 

2ndJuly 2021

Mr. PragunVinayak, Mobility  and Transportation Analytics Consultant, Cambridge Systematics Inc. (Los Angeles)

 

Measuringhurricane evacuation behavior using cellular location data

 

6

 

 

7th August  2021

 

       

Dr. Saikiran Mayakuntla        Post-Doctoral Researcher, University of Chile

 

A node-based complementarity formulation for dynamic traffic assignment(DTA) problems

 

7

 

 

2nd October 2021

 

Ms. Prithvi Bhat Beeramoole  PhD student at Queensland University of Technology

 

Can a metaheuristic be used to assist in discrete choice modelling?

8 event

20th November 2021   

Dr. Vajjarapu Harsha, Research Associate at International Center for Environmental Audit and Sustainable Development, Jaipur

Evaluating Climate Change Mitigation & Adaptation Potential of Sustainable Urban Transport Measures in India.

 

IST Lab Alumni Group Interview Series 2021

Moderated by

Ms. Prithvi Bhat Beeramoole, Co-Convenor, IST Lab Alumni Group
PhD student at Queensland University of Technology

S. No.

Alumni Interviewee

Date

IST Lab Alumni Interviewee’s name & affiliation

 

1

 

20 Feb 2021

 

Dr. Saikiran Mayakuntla,        Post-Doctoral Researcher, University of Chile

 

2

 

26 Mar 2021

 

Dr. Manoj M.,                        Assistant Professor at IIT Delhi

 

3

 

21 May 2021

 

Dr. Rahul T.M.,                      Assistant Professor at IIT Ropar

 

4

 

18 June 2021

 

Ms. Aparna P.M.,              Transport Planner, CDM Smith Inc., Qatar

 

5

 

 

20 August 2021


Ms. Mehvish Shah            Business Analyst - Microsoft Azure Release Ops / Redmond Washington

 

6

 

 

25 September 2021      

 

Varun Raturi                       Research Associate at University of Glasgow

 

7

Sreenivasulu Sungadi

 

6th November 2021

Sreenivasulu Sungadi

Traffic and Road Safety Expert at M/s Eclat Engineering Consultants, Hyderabad

 

 

Joint A(B+V) Doctoral Seminar Series

Jointly Organized by

QUT & IST Lab

S. No.

Date

 

Speaker

Affiliation

Title of Seminar

1

11th March 2021

    

Chintan Advani

Ph.D. student, Queensland University of Technology

Trajectory reconstruction for a dense urban network with overlapping Bluetooth scanning zone

Harsha  Vajjarappu

Research Associate · Indian Audit and Accounts Department (CAG India), Alumni IST Lab

Evaluating climate change mitigation and adaptation potential of sustainable urban transport measures in India

2

31st March 2021

Etikaf Hussain

Research fellow, Queensland University of Technology

A novel OD based transit supply index: Exploiting the opportunities with big transit data

Karthika P. S.

Ph.D. student, IST Lab., Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru

Investigating the microscopic pedestrian dynamics in mass religious gatherings

3

28th April 2021

Krishna N. S. Behara

Ph.D. student, Queensland University of Technology

Origin-destination matrix estimation using big traffic data: A structural perspective

Gayathri H.

Ph.D. student, IST Lab., Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru

Macroscopic crowd flow and risk modelling in mass religious gathering

4

29th July 2021

Zhicheng Fang

Masters student, Queensland University of Technology

Modelling key corridors using trajectory data

Saransh Sahu

JRF, IST Lab. Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru

Quantifying wider economic impacts of high speed rail connectivity and accessibility

5 11th January 2022 

 Raghav Malhotra

 Ph.D. student, Queensland University of Technology Performance evaluation of choice set generation methods for route choice modelling
 Hemanthini A. R.  Ph.D. student, IST Lab., Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru Developing a Framework for Evaluating Sustainable Urban Transport Measures in Terms of Quality of Life