Current Students / Postdoctoral Researchers in C-TIERPrevious Students / Postdoctoral Researchers in C-TIER

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Pranab Kar

Postdoctoral Researcher Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering pkar@memphis.edu Ph.D. Topic: Proactive Safety Assessment of Mixed Traffic on Rural Highways Using Extreme Value Theory

Research Areas: Traffic operations and safety; Driver Behavior Modeling; Intelligent Transportation Systems

 

Avani Aravind

Graduate Research Assistant Ph.D. in Transportation Engineering Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering aaravind@memphis.edu

Research Areas: Public transit; Equity; Dynamic scheduling

 

Pawan Neupane

Graduate Research Assistant Ph.D. in Transportation Engineering Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering p.neupane@memphis.edu

Research Areas: Transportation Safety; Choice Modeling

 

Veera Manikanda Prabhu Nagamanickam

Graduate Research Assistant Ph.D. in Transportation Engineering Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering v.nagamanickam@memphis.edu

Research Areas: Transportation Safety; Driving Behavior

 

Aman Agrawal

Graduate Research Assistant Ph.D. in Transportation Engineering Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering agrawal2@memphis.edu

Research Areas: Public transit; Integrated Transport Model

 

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Sowjanya Dhulipala, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Researcher
Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering
s.dhulipala@memphis.edu
Research Areas: Transportation Planning, Freight Demand Modeling, Travel Behavior Modeling, and Spatial Analysis of Transportation Systems.
Ph.D. Topic: Freight Generation and Mode Choice for Regional Freight Demand in India

 

 

 

Gajanand Sharma, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Researcher
Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering gsharma@memphis.edu Research Areas: Transportation Planning, Freight Transportation, Travel Demand Modeling, Transportation Accessibility, and Equity

Ph.D. Topic: Transporation derived quality of life

 

 

 

Dimitrios Giampouranis

Graduate Research Assistant
Ph.D. in Transportation Engineering
Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering
dkgmprns@memphis.edu
Research Area: Maritime transportation
Ph.D. Topic: Berth scheduling at public marine terminals using auctions

 

 

Huan Ngo

Graduate Research Assistant
Ph.D. in Transportation Engineering
Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering
hhngo@memphis.edu
Research Areas: Data-driven approaches and applications for Urban Mobility; mobility as a service; electric vehicles
Ph.D. Topic: A Deep Learning approach for predicting network-wide traffic using taxi data

   

Diwas Thapa

Graduate Research Assistant
Ph.D. in Transportation Engineering
Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering
dthapa@memphis.edu Research Areas: Transportation safety; Choice modeling; Travel behavior Ph.D. Topic: Highway crash analysis using duration model

 

 

Mitra Salehi

Graduate Research Assistant
Ph.D. in Transportation Engineering
Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering
mslhsfnd@memphis.edu Research Area: Freight transportation
Ph.D. Topic: Microplastic release from truck transportation

 

 

Ali Riahi Samani

Graduate Research Assistant
Ph.D. in Transportation Engineering
Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering
rhsamani@memphis.edu
Research Areas: Autonomous vehicles; Driving Simulator studies; Integrated land use transport models;
Ph.D. Topic: Take-Over Request (TOR) in Highly Automated vehicles

 

 

Vasileios Liatsos

Graduate Research Assistant
Ph.D. in Transportation Engineering
Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering
vslatsos@memphis.edu Research Area: Freight transportation
Ph.D. Topic: Truck caravanning and platooning opportunities

 

 

Neda Nazemi

Graduate Research Assistant
M.Sc. in Transportation Engineering
Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering
n.nazemi@memphis.edu
Research Area: Freight transportation
M.Sc. Topic: Externalities and opportunities from agricultural transport in the US