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Prof. S. Travis Waller

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Prof. Dr. S. Travis Waller

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Dr. Moeid Qurashi

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Dr. -Ing. Moeid Qurashi

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Dr. Surendra Kancharla

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Dr. Surendra Reddy Kancharla

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Research Interests:

Urban Freight Transport Modeling
Green Vehicle Routing
Stochastic and Deterministic Routing
Transport Network Modelling
High-Performance Computing
Transformer Models for Traffic Prediction

Professional Affiliations:

Transportation Research Board (TRB)
Friend of TRB Committees on Freight Transportation Planning and Logistics (AT015), Urban Freight Transportation (AT025), Freight Transportation Data (AED70), Transportation Network Modeling (AEP40), Visualization in Transportation (AED80), Equity in Transportation (AME10), and Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Computing Applications (AED50)

Academic Background:

Ph.D. in Civil Engineering (2020) – Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India
B.Tech. in Civil Engineering (2013) – Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati, India

Professional Experience:

2022 – Present: Senior Research Associate, "Friedrich List" Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
2021 – 2022: Postdoctoral Researcher, Lyles School of Civil Engineering, Purdue University, USA
2019 – 2020: Senior Project Officer, Center for Industrial Consultancy and Sponsored Research, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India
2014 – 2019: Teaching and Research Assistant, Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India

Awards and Honors:

2020: K. Ganesh and Meena Ganesh Fellowship for Entrepreneurship Development, Indian Institute of Technology Madras
2019: Institute Research Award, Indian Institute of Technology Madras
2016 & 2018: Student Travel Grant, Indian Institute of Technology Madras
2017: Alumni Funded Travel Grant, Indian Institute of Technology Madras
2015: Study Visit Grant, Volvo Research & Educational Foundations (VREF), Sweden

Dr. Kancharla's research focuses on optimizing urban freight transport systems through the integration of stochastic and deterministic routing methodologies. His recent work involves applying transformer models to traffic prediction, enhancing the accuracy of urban mobility forecasts. By leveraging high-performance simulation techniques and big data analytics, he aims to improve the efficiency and sustainability of urban transportation networks.

Dr. Durr-e-Nayab

Research Associate

Dr. Durr e Nayab

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Education

PhD, 2015 – 2021
Research Title: Adaptive Expanding Ring Search Based Per Hop Routing Rendition in MANETS using Machine Learning
Electrical Engineering Department,
University of Engineering and Technology, Peshawar, Pakistan

MS, 2012 – 2014
Research Title: Exploring Developmental Plasticity in Neural Networks for the Prediction of Foreign Currency Exchange Rates
Department of Computer Systems Engineering,
University of Engineering and Technology, Peshawar, Pakistan

BS, Computer Systems Engineering
2007 – 2011
University of Engineering and Technology, Peshawar, Pakistan

Research Experience

Post Doctoral Researcher,
Jan 2024 to date
TU Dresden, Transport Modeling and Simulation
“Friedrich List” Faculty of Transport Sciences
Institute for Transport Planning and Road Traffic
Technische Universitat Dresden, Germany

Co-Principal Investigator,
Feb 2023 – Jan 2024
Intelligent Systems Design Lab,
National Center for Artificial Intelligence, NCAI,
University of Engineering and Technology, Peshawar

International Researcher,
Feb 2020 – Feb 2022
Research Project under RDO Grant,
Intelligent Real-time Crowd Monitoring System Using UAV video and GPS Data,
Qassim University, KSA

Research Assistant,
2012 – 2014
R & D Funded Projects Center for Intelligent Systems and Networks Research,
University of Engineering and Technology, Peshawar, Pakistan

Teaching Experience

Lecturer & Batch Advisor,
June 2016 to date,
Department of Computer Systems Engineering,
University of Engineering and Technology, Peshawar, Pakistan

Lecturer,
2014 – 2015
Computer Science Department,
Institute of Business and Management Sciences,
Agriculture University, Peshawar, Pakistan

Lecturer,
2014 – 2016
Electrical Engineering Department,
Peshawar College Engineering, Peshawar, Pakistan

Research interests

Bearing a strong academic and research background in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence, Nayab seeks newer challenges in academia as well as industry capitalizing on her knowledge, research, and problem-solving skills to achieve impactful goals for the advancement of science and technology and benefit of society. She earned her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (EED) from UET Peshawar in 2021 and a Master's degree in Computer Systems Engineering from UET Peshawar in 2015. She has worked on major ICT R & D-funded projects at the Center for Intelligent Systems and Network Research (CISNR), UET Peshawar, and led twelve AI-based projects at the National Center for Artificial Intelligence (NCAI), UET Peshawar. Her research majors are Mobile Ad hoc Networks, Routing Schemes in Wireless Networks, Intelligent Systems Design, Artificial Intelligence Applications, and Machine Learning algorithms.

Selected Publications:

D. Nayab, M. H. Zafar, Ali Altalbe, Prediction of Scenarios for Routing in MANETs based on Expanding Ring Search and Random Early Detection Parameters using Machine Learning Techniques, IEEE Access, vol. 09, no. 01, pp. 47033-47047, 2021. (IF:3.745)

D. Nayab, M. H. Zafar, M. Basheri, Adaptive Expanding Ring Search Based Per Hop Routing in MANETs, Computers, Materials & Continua, vol. 67, no. 1, pp. 1137-1152, 2021. (IF:4.89)

K. Khan, W. Albattah, R. U. Khan, A. M. Qamar, D. Nayab, Advances and Trends in Real Time Visual Crowd Analysis, Applications of IoT and Machine Learning in Smart Cities, Sensors MDPI, vol. 20, no. 18, pp. 5073-5101, 2020. (IF:3.576)

D. Nayab, R. U. Khan, A. M. Qamar, Performance Augmentation of Base Classifiers Using Adaptive Boosting Framework for Medical Datasets, Applied Computational Intelligence and Soft Computing, vol. 2023, no.1, pp. 1-20, 2023. (IF:2.9)

G. M. Khan and D. Nayab, Learning Trends on the Fly in Time Series Data using Plastic CGP evolved Recurrent Neural Networks, 27^th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks and Machine Learning, Springer Proceedings, Rhodes, Greece, pp. 199-207, 2018.

Dr. Esta Qiu

Research Associate

Dr. Esta Qiu

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Sakshi Charde

Research Associate

Sakshi Atul Charde M.Tech.

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Sakshi Atul Charde

Research Interests:

Transport Network Modelling
Dynamic Traffic Assignment
Equilibrium
High-Performance Simulation
Stochastic Routing

Academic Background:

2022 – 2024: M.Tech. Transport Infrastructure Systems, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India
2015 – 2020: B. Arch., School of Planning and Architecture Delhi, India

Professional Experience:

2024 – Present: Research associate, Chair of Transport Modelling and Simulation, Institute of Transport Planning and Road Traffic, TU Dresden, Dresden, Saxony, Germany
2023.09 – 2024.06: Visiting student researcher, Chair of Transport Modelling and Simulation, Institute of Transport Planning and Road Traffic, TU Dresden, Dresden, Saxony, Germany
2020 – 2022: Architect, Confluence Consultancy Services, New Delhi, India

Awards and Honors:

2023 – 24: DAAD KOSPIE Scholarship Award for exchange studies at Technical University Dresden, Germany

Publications:

D. Nayab, S. A. Charde, P. Mohan, S. T. Waller and T. Bednarz, "Building a Unified Transportation Digital Twin: Integrating Rapidex for Next-Gen 3D Traffic Modeling and Road Scene Generation," 2024 IEEE International Symposium on Emerging Metaverse (ISEMV), Bellevue, WA, USA, 2024, pp. 51-52, doi: 10.1109/ISEMV63338.2024.00027.

Katrin Glöckner

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Katrin Glöckner

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Dr. Anna Sotnikova

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Dr. Anna Sotnikova

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Anna holds a PhD degree in Transport Technologies from Lviv Polytechnic National University, Lviv, Ukraine. Her research is focused on understanding changes in transport flows in war conditions using pervasive data.

Selected Publications:

Waller, S. T., Qurashi, M., Sotnikova, A., Karva, L., & Chand, S. (2023). Analyzing and Modeling Network Travel Patterns During the Ukraine Invasion Using Crowd-Sourced Pervasive Traffic Data. Transportation Research Record, 2677(10), 491-507. https://doi.org/10.1177/03611981231161622

А. O. Sotnikova, "Analysis of the transport behavior of the population of Ukraine during the initial phase of a full-scale invasion," VPI Bulletin, vol. 6, pp. 65-70, Dec. 2023. https://doi.org/10.31649/1997-9266-2023-171-6-65-70

Work experience

12/2022 – now
Research Assistant
Dresden University of Technology

09/2019 – 06/2021
Assistant of the Department of Transport Technologies
Lviv Polytechnic National University, Lviv, Ukraine

06/2018 – 09/2019
Junior Transport Analyst
Dornier Consulting International GmbH, Kyiv, Ukraine

04/2017 – 06/2017
Engineer of the 2nd category
Lviv Municipal Enterprise “Lvivavtodor”, Lviv, Ukraine

Education

09/2019 – now
PhD student
Lviv Polytechnic National University, Lviv, Ukraine
Thesis: Specifics of transport flows formation in war conditions

09/2017 – 12/2018
Master of Transport Technologies
Lviv Polytechnic National University, Lviv, Ukraine
Thesis: Investigation of interaction between cyclists and pedestrians

09/2013 – 06/2017
Bachelor of Transport Technologies
Lviv Polytechnic National University, Lviv, Ukraine
Diploma work - "Reorganization of traffic management scheme at intersection of streets Pasichna and G. Washingtona in Lviv"

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