Sabya Mishra: The University of Memphis

Huan Ngo

Ph.D. in Transportation Engineering

Huan is a doctoral student in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Memphis. He completed his bachelor degree at the University of Memphis where he earned the third place in the 2019 Seismic Competition and the Dr. Tzu Senior Design award. His involvement in scientific research began in his junior year and a year after, he published a paper in a prestigious journal. His research interest includes Data-driven Application for Smart Cities and Estimation and Prediction techniques for spatio-temporal data.

Diwas Thapa

Ph.D. in Transportation Engineering

Diwas is a graduate student currently pursuing his Ph.D. in transportation. Diwas completed his bachelor degree in civil engineering from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Anantapur (2015) under Nepal Aid Fund Scholarship Scheme (2011-12). Prior to joining UoM, he worked as a civil engineer for Kathmandu Valley Water Supply Improvement Project (Melamchi Sub-project 2) in Kathmandu, Nepal. His research interests include sustainable urban transportation, Connected Autonomous Vehicle technologies and choice modeling.

Ali Riahi

Ph.D. in Transportation Engineering

Ali is Doctoral Student in Transportation Engineering and Graduate Research Assistant in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Memphis. He has received his M.Sc. in Transportation Engineering from Isfahan University of Technology (IUT). In addition, he collaborated as a Research Assistant with the Institute of Transportation at IUT in Municipality of Isfahan projects. His research interests are transportation networks reliability, transportation and land use planning, and automounts vehicles.

Avani Aravind

Ph.D. in Transportation Engineering

Avani is a doctoral student in the Department of Civil engineering at the University of Memphis. She completed her master's in Transportation Systems Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay (2020). Before joining the University of Memphis she worked as a Project Engineer at the National Transportation Planning and Research Centre, India. Her research interest includes Public Transit Connectivity, Transportation equity and Accessibility, and Sustainable Urban transportation.

Ishant Sharma

Completed Degree: Ph.D. in Transportation

Thesis: Consumers' adoption of connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) based on their social network

Currently: Post-doctoral researcher at the University of Memphis

Suvin P.V.

Position: Postdoctoral researcher

Currently: Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Hyderabad, India

Agnivesh Pani

Position: Postdoctoral researcher

Currently: Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)-BHU, Varanasi, India

Jesse Simpson

Completed Degree: M.S. and Ph.D. in Transportation

Thesis: The Adoption of Connected Autonomous Vehicles and Other Innovations by Freight Transportation Organizations

Currently: Civil Engineer at Huitt-Zollars

Santosh Bhattarai

Completed Degree: M.S. in Transportation

Thesis: Multidimensional Resource Allocation in Freight Transportation Planning: A Case Study of Tennessee

Currently: Associate Regional Planner at Fresno Council of Governments

Dr. Ahmadreza Talebian

Position: Postdoctoral researcher

Currently: Assistant Professor, Isfahan University of Technology, Iran

Zohora Sultana

Completed Degree: M.S. in Transportation

Thesis: Modeling frequency of rural demand response transit trips

Currently: Transportation Analyst, Oregon DOT

Khademul Haque

Completed Degree: Ph.D. in Transportation

Dissertation: Multi-Period Transportation Network Investment Decision Making Using Link Ranking and An Econometric Framework

Currently: CDM Smith

Afrid Sarker

Completed Degree: M.S. in Transportation

Thesis: Secondary Crashes: Identification, Visualization and Prediction

Currently: Caltrans

Mohamed Osman

Completed Degree: Ph.D. in Transportation

Dissertation: A Comprehensive Discrete Choice Analysis of Injury Severity in Roadway Work Zone Crashes

Currently: Tennessee Department of Transportation

Anteneh Yohannes

Completed Degree: M.S. in Transportation

Thesis: Allocation of transportatio resources

Currently: HNTB

Hossein Taghizad

Completed Degre: M.S.

Thesis: A Comprehensive Discrete Choice Analysis of Injury Severity in Roadway Work Zone Crashes

Currently: Software Engineer, Chicago

Sukanya Dasgupta

Completed Degree: B.S. in Transportation

Olivia Wiseman

Completed Degree: B.S. in Transportation