I’m currently a graduate student specializing in Transportation Engineering at the Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering, University of Texas at Austin. My research focuses on traffic assignment, multimodal logistics, and transportation network modeling. I’m particularly interested in applying optimization, simulation, and queueing theory to improve the resilience and efficiency of freight systems and urban mobility.
I am also currently a member of the Transportation Research Board’s Standing Committee on Intermodal Freight and Truck Transportation (AT014).
Research interests
My work centers around three interconnected domains: traffic assignment and network modelling, port–hinterland systems, and freight and trucking logistics. Within these areas, I use operations research techniques and data-driven methods to study and improve multimodal freight and logistics networks.
Primary focus: Maritime Logistics, Trucking Logistics, Traffic Assignment, Port Operations, Multimodal Freight Networks
Allied focus: Operations Research, Queueing Theory, Discrete Event Simulation, Stochastic User Equilibrium, Network Optimization, Data-Driven Methods
I am also a strong advocate of open source research and strive to release large-scale frameworks along with documentation for community use.
Education
PhD, Civil Engineering (Transportation Systems), The University of Texas at Austin, 2023–2028
Advisor: Stephen D. BoylesMSE, Civil Engineering (Transportation Systems), The University of Texas at Austin, 2023–2025
Thesis: Error Bounds for Stochastic User Equilibrium Traffic Assignment
Advisor: Stephen D. Boyles
CUTC Milton Pikarsky Award for outstanding MS thesis in science and technologyBS (Research), Earth & Environmental Science (Minor: Mathematics), Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, 2019–2023
Thesis: Energy Efficient & Safe Routing for Last-Mile Logistics
Advisor: Tarun Rambha
Institute Gold Medal for highest major GPA
Recent updates
Sep 2026. Our paper on a simulation framework for evaluating port expansion projects is now under review, and MAPS, the port simulation software behind it, is open source. [Preprint] [Try out MAPS]
May 2026. Two of our papers on logit-based stochastic user equilibrium are now under review. In the first, we derive error bounds on link flows, link costs, and total system travel time for any feasible solution to the logit-SUE problem. In the second, we analyze the spectrum of the logit mapping to build faster algorithms for logit-SUE. We are also releasing Logit-SUE, a fast solver with several step-size and algorithm options. [Assignment paper] [Error bounds paper] [Try out Logit-SUE]
Dec 2025. I received the CUTC Milton Pikarsky Memorial Award for my master’s thesis on error bounds for stochastic user equilibrium traffic assignment. The award recognizes the best master’s thesis in science and technology in transportation studies across the U.S.
Nov 2025. Our manuscript on the bi-criterion Steiner TSP for last-mile electric vehicle logistics was accepted in Computers & Operations Research. [Paper]
Sep 2025. I was appointed as a member of the TRB Standing Committee on Intermodal Freight and Truck Transportation for the 2025–2028 term. I aim to contribute to the committee on multimodal port operations, capacity, and resilience. [Committee page]
Jul 2025. I presented my master’s thesis on error bounds for stochastic user equilibrium traffic assignment at TRISTAN XII in Okinawa, Japan, focusing on early termination criteria for stochastic traffic assignment problems. [More details]
Apr 2025. Our paper on localized queue spillback with uncertain demand was accepted at DTA 2025 in Salerno, Italy. [Symposium]