About Me

I am an Assistant 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).

Recent news:

[2024] Our recent 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’.
[2022] Our paper titled “Comprehensive Airborne Laser Scanning Simulation” by Shikhar Dayal has won the JISRS Best Paper Award 2021. The award will be presented at ISRS-ISG Annual Convention and ISRS National Symposium on November 15, 2022.
[2022] Our new paper titled “Zero Velocity Detection in Foot-mounted Inertial Sensors: Novel method for generating zero velocity labels and a comparative analysis of data driven methods” is now accepted at FIG Congress 2022 and will be presented by Ashwani Kumar. Click here to access the paper.
[2021] Our new paper titled “Identification of parking spaces from multi-modal trajectory data” is now published in “Transactions in GIS”. Click here to access the paper.
[2021] Our new book titled “Smart Parking in Fast Growing Cities: Challenges and Solutions” published by TU Wien Academic Press is now available online. Click here to access the book.
This book is the result of a project funded by Government of India, called “Advanced Parking Information and Management for Indian Traffic”, a collaboration between IIT Kanpur and The University of Melbourne.

Links:

IIT Kanpur | Department of Civil Engineering | Geoinformatics Laboratory