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Venkatesan Kanagaraj
PhD (IIT Madras)
Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering
Research Interest
Traffic Flow Theory
Crowd Dynamics
Connected and Autonomous Vehicles
Specialization
Transportation Engineering
Education
Ph.D., IIT Madras, 2011
M.E., College of Engineering, Guindy, Anna University, 2004
B.E., Government College of Technology, Coimbatore, 2002
Previous Work Experience
Marie Curie Fellow, TU Dresden, Germany
Humboldt Research Fellow, TU Dresden, Germany
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Technion | Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
Scientific Software Developer, Transport Simulation Systems (TSS), Barcelona, Spain
Teaching Assistant, IIT Madras
Selected Publications
Kanagaraj, V., Treiber, M. (2018): Self-driven particle model for mixed traffic and other disordered flows. Physica A (Elsevier), 509, 1-11.
Kanagaraj, V., Srinivasan, K. K., Sivanandan, R., Asaithambi, G. (2015): Modeling unique merging behavior under mixed traffic conditions. Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour (Elsevier), 29, 98-112.
Treiber, M., Kanagaraj, V. (2015): Comparing numerical integration schemes for time continuous car-following models. Physica A (Elsevier), 419, 183-195.
Kanagaraj, V., Asaithambi G., Toledo, T., Lee, T. C. (2015): Trajectory data and flow characteristics of mixed traffic. Transportation Research Record 2491, Transportation Research Board, Washington D.C., USA, 1-11.
Kanagaraj, V., Srinivasan, K. K., Sivanandan, R. (2010): Modeling vehicular merging behavior under heterogeneous traffic conditions. Transportation Research Record 2188, Transportation Research Board, Washington D.C. USA, 140-147.
Awards & Fellowships
Marie Curie Individual Fellowship, funded by European Commission
Humboldt Research Fellowship, funded by Alexander Von Humboldt Foundation
PBC Fellowship Program for Outstanding Post-Doctoral Researchers, funded by Israel Council for Higher Education
Best Project Award for Post Graduate thesis awarded by College of Engineering, Guindy, Anna University.