Karthik Charan KonduriAssistant Professor
Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of Connecticut 261 Glenbrook Road, Unit 3037 Storrs, CT 06269-3037, USA Ph: 860-486-2733 Fax: 860-486-2298 Email: [email protected] |
Biographical Sketch
Dr. Karthik Charan Konduri is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Connecticut. He received his B.Tech. in Civil Engineering from the Institute of Technology at Banaras Hindu University, India, in 2004 followed by his M.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of Kentucky, in 2006 and finally his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from Arizona State University in 2012. His primary research interest is in the field of transportation systems with an emphasis on microsimulation-based approaches to model and analyze travel behavior. This interest has led him to conduct research in the areas of Activity-based Travel Behavior, Time Use Analysis, Travel Demand Modeling and Forecasting, Transportation Planning and Policy Analysis, Integrated Models of Land-Use and Transport, and Econometric and Statistical Modeling Methodologies. Dr. Konduri has worked on a number of sponsored research efforts for regional, state and federal transportation authorities in various capacities through the years. His research efforts have led to publications in journals, books, and conference proceedings and he has presented his work at national and international conferences. More recently he co-authored a paper that was awarded the 2012 Pyke Johnson Award for the best paper in the field of transportation systems planning and administration by the Transportation Research Board.
In addition to conducting research, Dr. Konduri has also actively contributed to the state of practice by designing and developing open-source transportation planning software. He led the design and development of two transportation planning software including, PopGen (Population Generator) – an open-source synthetic population generator for microsimulation-based land use and transport models, and OpenAMOS (Open-source Activity Mobility Simulator) – an open-source activity-based travel demand model system during his tenure at Arizona State University as a Graduate Research Associate and then as a Postdoctoral Reseacher. PopGen has gained interest from the transportation planning community in the United States and around the world. PopGen has also been adopted into model systems of land-use and transport both in the fields of research and practice. OpenAMOS software is currently undergoing testing and will be released to public in the near future. He continues to be actively involved in the development efforts of these and other transportation planning software.
Dr. Konduri is a member of a number of transportation research communities including Transportation Research Board, Institute of Transportation Engineers, International Association of Travel Behaviour Research, and World Conference on Transport Research Society. He was recently appointed as young member to the Traveler Behavior and Values Committee (ADB10) of the Transportation Research Board.
In addition to conducting research, Dr. Konduri has also actively contributed to the state of practice by designing and developing open-source transportation planning software. He led the design and development of two transportation planning software including, PopGen (Population Generator) – an open-source synthetic population generator for microsimulation-based land use and transport models, and OpenAMOS (Open-source Activity Mobility Simulator) – an open-source activity-based travel demand model system during his tenure at Arizona State University as a Graduate Research Associate and then as a Postdoctoral Reseacher. PopGen has gained interest from the transportation planning community in the United States and around the world. PopGen has also been adopted into model systems of land-use and transport both in the fields of research and practice. OpenAMOS software is currently undergoing testing and will be released to public in the near future. He continues to be actively involved in the development efforts of these and other transportation planning software.
Dr. Konduri is a member of a number of transportation research communities including Transportation Research Board, Institute of Transportation Engineers, International Association of Travel Behaviour Research, and World Conference on Transport Research Society. He was recently appointed as young member to the Traveler Behavior and Values Committee (ADB10) of the Transportation Research Board.
Work Experience
- Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Connecticut (August 2012 - present)
- Postdoctoral Researcher, School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Envrionment, Arizona State University (February 2012 - August 2012)
- Graduate Research Associate, School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Envrionment, Arizona State University (January 2007 - February 2012)
- Transportation Engineer, Strand Associates Inc. (May 2006 - December 2006)
- Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Kentucky (July 2005 - May 2006)
