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Invited American Transportation Expert (2016); U.S. Department of State and the Institute for Sustainable Communities. One of six American experts selected for the "Building Smart Cities Through Educational Linkages" program to support smart city solutions in India. Dr. Peeta was selected as the transportation systems expert.
IEEE ITSC2015 Third Best Paper Award (2015); IEEE 18th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Las Palmas, Spain. Awarded for the paper "Macroscopic Modeling of Spatiotemporal Information Flow Propagation Wave under Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communications," by Kim, Y-H. Peeta, S. and He, X.
Overseas Professor (2015-present), Anna University, Chennai, India.
Honorary Guest Professor (2015-present), Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Chongqing, China.
TRB AT045 Intermodal Freight Award (2015); TRB Intermodal Freight Committee (AT045). Awarded for the paper "Rail-Truck Multimodal Freight Collaboration: A Statistical Analysis of Freight Shipper Perspectives," by Guo, Y., Peeta, S. and Mannering, F.
Member, Advisory Board, KSCE Journal of Civil Engineering (2014-present); To provide advice on enhancing the overall quality and citation of published papers in the Korean Society of Civil Engineering (KSCE) Journal of Civil Engineering.
Certificate of Appreciation, CICTP Conference (2013); Recognized as an Honor Speaker at the 13th COTA International Conference of Transportation Professionals.
TRB Blue Ribbon Committee Award, TRB (2013); Chair of the Transportation Network Modeling Committee (ADB30) which received the award for "Contributing to TRB and the Transportation Community," based on initiatives under the leadership of Dr. Peeta.
College of Engineering Mentoring Award, Purdue University (2012); "For playing an exemplary and selfless role as he instills integrity and responsibility in team members, challenges and motivates students, and mentors by example."
Certificate of Commendation, Transportation Research Board (2012); To recognize the paper review efforts of the Transportation Network Modeling Committee members and friends; by the TRB Technical Activities Council and the TRR Publication Board.
Advisor, Transportation Research Group of India (TRGI), (2011 – present); TRGI is a not-for-profit research organization which seeks to aid India’s overall growth through focused transportation research, education, and policies.
UniSA Distinguished Researcher Award, University of South Australia (UniSA) (2010); "Only up to 4 such awards are made per year based on a competitive nomination and selection process across all disciplines. It seeks to attract distinguished international researchers with outstanding research track records in their respective fields to visit UniSA to establish or strengthen research collaborations likely to lead to high profile research outcomes."
Walter Huber Research Prize, American Society of Civil Engineers (2009); "Recognized for his outstanding research contributions to the advancement of transportation network modeling."
Visiting Distinguished Scholar, Taiwan (2009); Four invited seminars (with faculty and students from 10 national universities) and faculty interactions at the National Taiwan University, the National Chiao Tung University, the National Dong Hwa University, and the National Cheng Kung University.
AATT Best Paper Award, AATT (ASCE) (2009); From among 800 papers at the 10th International Conference on the Applications of Advanced Technologies in Transportation (AATT) in Athens, Greece, sponsored by the American Society of Civil Engineers. Awarded for the paper "A Direct Bridge between Dynamic Traffic Assignment and Graph Theory," by Kalafatas, G. and Peeta, S.
Invited Speaker at the NAE Frontiers of Engineering, National Academy of Engineering (2008); "Megacities and System of Systems Modeling," Irvine, CA.
Chair, Committee on Transportation Network Modeling (ADB30), Transportation Research Board (TRB) of the National Academies (2007 – 2013).
Seed for Success Award, Purdue University (2007 – 2013); Given each year in recognition of the accomplishments of single investigators and teams of investigators for their efforts in obtaining a $1 million dollar or more research grant; for the NEXTRANS Center, the USDOT Region 5 University Transportation Center, for funding ranging from $1.7 million to $3.5 million from the USDOT.
TRB AHB25 Exceptional Paper Award, TRB Traffic Signal Systems Committee (2007); Awarded for the paper "Recasting Dilemma Zone Design as a Marginal Cost and Benefit Problem," by Sharma, A., Bullock, D. and S. Peeta, Transportation Research Record, TRB, National Research Council, Washington, D.C.
Roy E. & Myrna Wansik Excellence in Research Award, Purdue University (2004); "Awarded to a faculty member of the School of Civil Engineering for research contributions and/or the most meritorious technical paper in a refereed journal."
NSF CAREER Award, NSF (1997); For the proposal titled, "Efficient and Robust On-line Control of Large-scale Dynamic Traffic Systems with Information Systems."
INFORMS Transportation Science Best Dissertation Award, the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS) (1994); "This award is the oldest and most prestigious honor for doctoral dissertations in the transportation science area."
Several invited and keynote talks/lectures within USA and abroad.
Fourth Rank Nationally, Senior School Examinations, Central Board of Secondary Education, India (1984); From among more than 100,000 students.
National Talent Search Scholar, India (1982 – 1988); Awarded annually to 250 students nation-wide based on a national competition by the National Council for Education, Research, and Training (NCERT), India.

Awards for Dissertations/Theses/Research of Dr. Peeta’s Students

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