Civil Engineering Assistant

EDUCATION

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION

**** **** ***** **********, ****, Iowa

Doctorate in Civil Engineering (minor in Statistics), anticipated July 2020 GPA: 3.92/4.00

**** ****** ********* ** *****ology, Guwahati, India Master of Technology in Civil Engineering

GPA: 3.84/4.00

2014 Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India

Bachelor’s in Civil Engineering

GPA: 3.36/4.00

EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE

Iowa State University, College of Engineering, Ames IA Aug 2016 - till date Research Assistant

• Working on Evaluating ASCT operations for Dodge Street Corridor since July 2019.

• Developed the Performance Based Operations Assessment of Adaptive Control Implementation in Des Moines in August 2018 using Machine Learning.

• Compiled in the Annual Interstate Congestion Report of Iowa 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019.

• Completed probe-based evaluation for the Traffic Critical Project Annual Report 2017, 2018.

• Deep learning implementation in transportation engineering – prediction modeling and computer vision.

• Object detection and drone-based camera images.

Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, India May 2015 - Jun 2016 Teaching Assistant

• Contributed to the preparation of the Indian Highway Capacity Manual M. N. Dastur Pvt. Ltd. May 2013

Summer Trainee

• Solving steel design problems using STAAD.Pro

Rail Vikas Nigam Limited, Kolkata, India May 2012 - Jun 2012 Summer Trainee

• Construction works and basic design of pile and pile caps. ACHIEVEMENTS AND HONORS

• Organized Big Data Challenge on Signalized Intersection hosted by Traffic Signals Committee (AHB 25), Transportation Research Board.

• Secured 5th position in Traffic Forecasting Competition (TRANSFOR19) organized by TRB in January 2019.

• Working as a Research Assistant at Iowa State University from August 2016 to present.

• Held the position of Teaching Assistant at Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, India from January 2015 to June 2016.

• Secured 2nd Position in M.Tech in Transportation Systems Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, India.

• 6th Topper in Bachelor of Civil Engineering in Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India.

• Scored 13th highest score across India in High School Graduation from ICSE Board. SUBHADIPTO PODDAR

3315 Roy Key Avenue, Unit 6, Ames, Iowa-50010

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TECHNICAL SKILLS

Coding Language:

• Python

• R

• Matlab

• Java

Operating System:

• Windows

• Linux

Visualization Tool

• Tableau

Other tools

• JMP

• Synchro

• Vissim

• Apache Pig

• Apache Hive

• BigQuery

• MX Roads

LANGUAGES

• English

• Hindi

• Bengali

• Assamese

INTERESTS

• Travelling

• Working out

• Watching knowledge

based videos

• Playing table tennis

PUBLICATIONS

• Poddar, S., Ozcan, K., Chakraborty, P., Ahsani, V., Sharma, A., & Sarkar, S. (2018). Comparison of machine learning algorithms to determine traffic congestion from camera images(No. 18-04695).

• Huang, T., Poddar, S., Aguilar, C., Sharma, A., Smaglik, E., Kothuri, S., & Koonce, P. (2018). Building Intelligence in Automated Traffic Signal Performance Measures with Advanced Data Analytics. Transportation Research Record, 2672(18), 154-166.

• Chakraborty, P., Adu-Gyamfi, Y. O., Poddar, S., Ahsani, V., Sharma, A., & Sarkar, S. (2018). Traffic congestion detection from camera images using deep convolution neural networks. Transportation Research Record, 2672(45), 222-231.

• Sharma, A., Hawkins, N., Shaw, J. G., Knickerbocker, S., & Poddar, S. (2018). Performance-Based Operations Assessment of Adaptive Control Implementation in Des Moines, Iowa.

• Tan, Kai Liang, Subhadipto Poddar, Soumik Sarkar, and Anuj Sharma. "Deep Reinforcement Learning for Adaptive Traffic Signal Control." In ASME 2019 Dynamic Systems and Control Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers Digital Collection, 2019.

• Wang, Shuo, Subhadipto Poddar, Pranamesh Chakraborty, Anuj Sharma, Skylar Knickerbocker, and Neal Hawkins. "Deep Learning Enabled Long Term Traffic Speed Prediction Using Historical Speed and Predicted Weather" In Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2020 Conference. Transportation Research Board, 2020.

• Poddar, S., Chakraborty, P., Sharma, A., Knickerbocker, S., & Hawkins, N. (2020, May 20). Massively Parallelizable Approach for Evaluating Signalized Arterial Performance Using Probe-based data. Retrieved from https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.11147 (Submitted to Journal of ITS)

• Poddar, S., Sharma, A., Day, C., & Guy B. (2020, August 31). Before-After Study of Signal Timing Improvement Using Crowd-sourced Data - A Case Study of Omaha In ASCE International Conference on Transportation & Development (ICTD 2020). (Accepted) PROJECT DETAILS

• Evaluating ASCT operations for Dodge Street Corridor July 2019 – Present Dr. Anuj Sharma and Dr. Christopher Day

Evaluation of the performance of the Adaptive Traffic Control System in Des Moines using Probe Based Data.

• Performance Based Operations Assessment of Adaptive Control Implementation in Des Moines Aug 2016- Aug 2018 Dr. Anuj Sharma

Evaluation of the performance of the Adaptive Traffic Control System in Des Moines using Probe Based Data.

• Study of lateral placement of vehicles in heterogeneous traffic stream Jul 2015 – Jun 2016 Dr. Akhilesh Kr. Maurya

Modelling and regression analysis of lateral placement of different vehicle classes on Indian Roads.

• Traffic engineering and planning and pavement design Jan 2014 – Apr 2014 Dr. Pritam Aitch and Dr. Arup Guha Niyogi

Signal optimization of an intersection, pavement design by various methods, and laboratory experiments using asphalt and aggregates.

• Bridge Deck Analysis Jul 2013 – Oct 2013

Dr. Arup Guha Niyogi

Analysis and design of bridge deck slab as per Indian Standards Code of Practice

• Compaction characteristics of fine-grained soil Jan 2013 – Mar 2013 Dr. Sudipta Ghosh

To study the behavior of compacting the fine-grained soils.

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