Profile of Srinivas Peeta
Thrust Lead - Large-Scale Civil Infrastructures: Srinivas Peeta
Jack and Kay Hockema Professor, School of Civil Engineering, Purdue University
Professional Preparation:
- Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, Civil Engineering, B.Tech. 1988
- Caltech, Civil Engineering, M.S. 1989
- University of Texas at Austin, Civil Engineering, Ph.D. 1994
Appointments:
December 2015 - Current
Jack and Kay Hockema Professor in Civil Engineering, Purdue University
April 2007 - April 2013
Chair, Committee on Transportation Network Modeling, Transportation Research Board, National Academies
August 2006 - Current
Director, NEXTRANS Center, USDOT Federal Region 5 University Transportation Center
August 2006 - Current
Professor, School of Civil Engineering (CE), Purdue University
August 2000 - April 2006
Associate Professor, School of Civil Engineering (CE), Purdue University
August 1994 - April 2000
Assistant Professor, School of Civil Engineering (CE), Purdue University
Expertise:
Dr. Peeta's research interests are multidisciplinary, span several methodological domains, and include among others: (i) the modeling and analysis of the dynamics of large-scale transportation systems, (ii) modeling and methodologies to address interdependencies among infrastructure systems, (iii) real-time information-based navigation in vehicular traffic networks, (iv) modeling human behavior/learning associated with drivers/travelers, (v) integrated supply-demand-performance models for strategic planning and real-time operations for various applications, (vi) understanding linkages between transportation, energy and environment, (vii) modeling policy options that impact transportation system evolution, (viii) systems and system-of-systems perspectives to address complex adaptive systems (ranging from engineered systems to human enterprise systems), and (ix) connected and autonomous vehicles.
Distinctions:
Dr. Peeta has authored over 300 technical publications, including over 245 in journals and refereed conference proceedings. He has over 435 talks/lectures at invited and/or international conferences in several countries, including over 95 invited keynote/plenary/seminar series talks. He has received over $33 million funding as PI or co-PI from sources such as the USDOT, NSF, FHWA, Indiana DOT, US DOE, NASA, US Department of Education, Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs, and Indo-US Science & Technology Forum. Five dissertations supervised by Dr. Peeta received best dissertation awards from organizations such as the Council of University Transportation Centers and the International Association for Travel Behavior Research.
Dr. Peeta's awards include: INFORMS Transportation Science Best Dissertation Award (1994), NSF CAREER Award (1997), Wansik Excellence in Research Award (2004), Exceptional Paper Award from TRB's Traffic Signal Systems Committee (2007), Purdue's Seed for Success Award (2007-2013), ASCE Walter Huber Research Prize (2009), AATT Best Paper Award (2009), Visiting Distinguished Scholar, Taiwan (2009), UniSA Distinguished Researcher Award, Australia (2010), Purdue College of Engineering Mentoring Award (2012), TRB Blue Ribbon Committee Award (2013) as the ADB30 chair, TRB AT045 Intermodal Freight Award (2015), Honorary Professor (2015) from Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China, and IEEE ITSC Third Best Paper Award (2015).