About Me

I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India. I earned my PhD jointly from The University of Melbourne, Australia and IIT Kanpur, India in the year 2017 as a Melbourne India Postgraduate Academy (MIPA) Scholar under the Joint PhD Agreement between the two institutions. I earned my B.Tech and M.Tech (specialization in Geoinformatics) from Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Kanpur under the B.Tech-M.Tech Dual Degree Program in 2011.

Prior to my PhD (2012-2013), I was working as Research Assistant at IIT Kanpur where we developed an innovative technology that enabled scanning of moving objects using LiDAR (refer to publications for details).

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Recent news:

• [2026] We have been granted a patent “An Artificial Intelligence Based System for Monitoring and Analyzing Air Quality”. (Patent number: 582461).

• [2025] Our recent work on ‘Impact-Driven Multi-Criteria Decision Appraoch for Strategic On-Street Parking Placement” is now online Click here to access the paper.

• [2025] Our recent works on road surface roughness, and road and sidewalk detection using bicycle based LiDAR are now online. Click here and Here to access the papers.

• [2025] Our work investigating the impact of on-street parking on traffic, led by Prashant Chauhan is now online. Click here to access the paper.

• [2024] Our work on foot mounted UWB sensors for pedestrian localization led by Ashwani Kumar is published by ION GNSS+ 2024. Click here to access the paper.

• [2024] Received INAE Young Associate 2024 by Indian National Academy of Engineering.

• [2024] Recognized as Geospatial World 50 Rising Stars by Geospatial World at Rotterdam, Netherlands.

• [2024] Received SPARC - Phase 3 grant in collaboration with University of Melbourne, Australia for ‘Pedestrian Safety in Smart Cities using LiDAR and Camera’.

• [2024] Received SPARC - Phase 3 grant in collaboration with IIT Delhi and Purdue University, USA for ‘UAV based monitoring system for infrastructure projects using deep learning models’.

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Links:

IITKanpur Homepage | Department of Civil Engineering | Geoinformatics Lab

Updated: March 07, 2026