Abhilash Chandra Singh, Ph.D.

• August 2024-present: Research Fellow in Transportation, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
• September 2023-June 2024: Research Associate, School of Allied Health, University of Limerick, Ireland
• 2019-2023: Ph.D., Transport Engineering, Imperial College London , advised by Prof. Aruna Sivakumar
• 2018-2019: Research Assistant, Center for Transportation Research, advised by Prof. Stephen Boyles.
• 2016-2018: M.Sc, Transportation Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, advised by Prof. Chandra Bhat
• 2012-2016: B.Tech,. Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, advised by Prof. Tom Mathew

About

I am a Research Fellow in Transportation Engineering at Trinity College Dublin, where I investigate the socioeconomic and spatial determinants of electric mobility adoption, focusing on public acceptance and financial barriers. Previously, I was a Postdoctoral Researcher on the ISCycle project at the University of Limerick's School of Allied Health and an instructor in the Department of Civil Engineering.

My research spans urban planning, travel behavior modeling, and sustainable transportation, emphasizing econometric and machine learning methodologies to analyze human choice behavior. I aim to enhance our understanding of decision-making processes related to daily activities, residential location choices, and electric vehicle adoption. Additionally, I am interested in addressing endogeneity in econometric models, optimizing energy consumption behaviors, and exploring behavioral economics in consumer demand modeling.

I earned my PhD in transportation engineering from Imperial College London in 2023, with a dissertation on "Endogeneity and Consideration Set Issues in Residential Location Choice Models." I have an MSc in Engineering with a specialization in Transportation Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin and a BTech in Civil Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. I also participated in a semester exchange program at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York.

I am a Imperial College Global Fellow awardee [2022] and Turing Scheme research awardee [2022], which allowed me to conduct research at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany. I have also received Department Dixon Scholarship and Wellcome Trust Scholarship for Ph.D. in UK [2019-2023], Texas District Student Fellowship [2017-2018] and Graduate fellowship to undertake graduate studies at UT Austin [2016-2018].

Contact and quick links

References

Words to live by . . .

What a misfortune, although you are made
for fine and great works
this unjust fate of yours always
denies you encouragement and success;
that base customs should block you;
and pettiness and indifference.
And how terrible the day when you yield
(the day when you give up and yield),
and you leave on foot for Susa,
and you go to the monarch Artaxerxes
who favorably places you in his court,
and offers you satrapies and the like.
And you accept them with despair
these things that you do not want.
Your soul seeks other things, weeps for other things;
> the praise of the public and the Sophists,
the hard-won and inestimable Well Done;
the Agora, the Theater, and the Laurels.
How can Artaxerxes give you these,
where will you find these in a satrapy;
and what life can you live without these.

The Satrapy, by Constantine P. Cavafy