Avinash Unnikrishnan

Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering

Approved Graduate Faculty for CEMR MS and PhD committees


Contact Information
Office: ESB 653C
Phone: (304) 293-9951
Fax: (304) 293-7109
 

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If you are interested in pursuing graduate studies, collaborating on research or doing under-graduate research work, feel free to contact me at: Avinash "dot " Unnikrishnan "at" mail "dot" wvu "dot" edu or visit my personal website at http://avinashu.wikidot.com/
 
Education
»Ph.D, University of Texas at Austin, Aug 2008
»M.S, Vanderbilt University, May 2004
»B.S, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, Aug 2002
 
Research Focus Areas
»Civil Infrastructure
 
Research Interests
»Network Equilibrium Models : Traffic Assignment Models Accounting for Information provision, Online Route choice, Uncertainty in Transportation Networks, Multimodal Transportation Networks
»Freight and Logistics : Stochastic and Dynamic Freight Network Shipper Carrier Models, Modeling Freight Emissions, Carrier Collaborations, Impact of Uncertainty in Strategic Shipper Carrier Operations
»Econometrics : Spatial Econometric Models, Statistical analysis of Crash data
»Traffic Operations and Control : Pricing under Uncertainty, Studying local/network level impacts of operational decisions like ramp closure/metering
 
Teaching Interests
»Traffic Engineering and Operations
»Transportation Planning
»Transportation Logistics and Commodity Flow
»Network Optimization
 
Service and Outreach
»Manuscript Reviewer for the following journals:
»Networks and Spatial Economics, European Journal of Operational Research, Transportation Research Part B Methodological, Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies, Transportation Research Record (Network Modeling Committee).
 
Professional Societies
»Member of Transportation and Logistics Society, Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS)
»Member, Network Equilibrium Subcommittee (ADB30(2)), Transportation Research Board, National Research Council
»Member, Committee on Traffic Flow Theory and Characteristics (AHB45), Transportation Research Board, National Research Council
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