Associate Professor
Transportation
Office: 13-212
Phone Number: 805-756-2104
Email: apande@calpoly.edu
Curriculum Vitae
Biography
Education:
- B.Tech. in Civil Engineering, 2002, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai (India)
- M.S. in Civil Engineering (Transportation), 2003, University of Central Florida
- Ph.D. in Civil Engineering (Transportation), 2005, University of Central Florida
- Graduate Certificate in Data Mining: SAS Institute/Department of Statistics,
University of Central Florida.
Interests:
- Statistical Analysis of Transportation Data
- Traffic Safety
- Traffic Simulation
- Intelligent Transportation Systems
- Scholarship of Teaching
- Vehicle Infrastructure Integration
- Statistical/Data Mining applications in Transportation Safety
Awards:
- Recipient of the Young Researcher Award - TRB Committee on Safety Data, Analysis, and Evaluation (Selected based on the paper presented at 85th annual meeting of the Transportation Research Board)
- Recipient of the University-level Outstanding Dissertation Award -2006 (Selected from all doctoral dissertations produced at UCF in 2005)
- Recipient of the Presidential Doctoral Fellowship as a Doctoral student at UCF (Fall'03 through the completion of degree program)
- Recipient of the Provost's Fellowship as a Masters student at UCF (Fall'02 through the completion of degree program)
- Recipient of the CATSS Scholarship as a graduate student in Transportation Engineering program at UCF (Spring 2004)
- Recipient of the Best Office Bearer award at IIT Bombay for outstanding organizational skills as the General Secretary-Hall of Residence
- Recipient of the National Scholarship Scheme - Merit Scholarship by Government of India for exceptional performance in Secondary School Examination
Affiliations:
- Member of the team developing Florida Strategic Highway Safety Plan (Emphasis Area - Lane Departure Crashes)
- Friend of the Transportation Research Board Committee on Safety Data, Analysis, and Evaluation (ANB20)
- Invited Reviewer for the Transportation Research Board Committee on Freeway Operations (AHB20)
- Invited reviewer for the Transportation Research Board Committee on Statistical Methodology and Statistical Computer Software in Transportation Research (ABJ80)
- Invited Reviewer for the Transportation Research Board Committee on Safety Data, Analysis, and Evaluation (ANB20)
- Faculty Adjudicator for the Oral Presentation and Research Poster Competition at the Annual Graduate Research Forum-2006 at UCF
- Paper reviewer for Accident Analysis and Prevention and IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
- Member of Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) Chapter at Cal Poly
- Member of Society of Civil Engineers (SCE) Chapter at Cal Poly
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