Partha Chakroborty, Professor
Department of Civil Engineering

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Awards, Honours and Recognitions

Member, Research Council (CSIR-CRRI) from 2013.

Member, PAC (Civil and Environmental Engineering) of DST (India)  from 2012.

Member, Core Group on Crowd Disasters, NDMA, from 2011.

Member, IMRA Committee of Indian Roads Congress, from 2008

Rajeeva and Sangeeta Lahri Chair Professorship by IIT Kanpur in 2011.

Frontiers of engineering award by the Indo-US Science and Technology Foundation in 2008.

Silver plaque from the Department of Civil Engineering for being voted the most  inspiring teacher by the 2007 batch of Civil Engineering students.

All India Council for Technical Education's Career Award for Young Teachers in 1998.

ASCE Journal of Transportation Engineering's Best Paper Award in 1996. (Awarded for the 1995 paper on transit system scheduling.)

International Neural Network Society's Neural Network Leadership Award awarded at the World Congress on Neural Networks held at Washington, D.C. USA in 1995.

World Conference on Transport Research's Best Paper Award awarded at the sixth edition of the conference in Lyon, France in 1992 for the paper on fuzzy notion of level of service.

University of Delaware's Competitive Fellowship for Academic Excellence in Graduate Studies in 1991. 

IIT Kanpur's commendation certificates for excellence in teaching.

Considered as a pioneer in developing rule-based acceleration (car-following) models of traffic flow. Click here to see a poster on theoretical development in traffic flow developed by FHWA (USA), Cambridge Systematics, MIT and others.