Abhilash Chandra Singh, Ph.D.

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About

I am a Research Fellow in Transportation Engineering at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. I currently serve as the Research Staff Representative (2025/26) on both the School of Engineering Executive Committee and the Research Committee.

My research focuses on understanding human choice behaviour in complex systems. I develop integrative frameworks that combine econometric modelling, machine learning, causal inference, energy–transport systems modelling, and urban planning analysis to study how individuals and households make activity–travel and energy-related decisions.

I have secured over €1.35 million in competitive research funding. I currently serve as Co-Investigator on a 2025 research award from the Environmental Protection Agency for the project Integrated Grid Resilience for Infrastructure Sustainability & Emergencies (2026–2028). I also serve as a Co-Principal Investigator on a 2025 Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI) - Research Demonstration and Development (RD&D) grant Causal Inference for Resilient Cities and Urban Integrated Transport (2026–2030).

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 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].

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  • References

  • Brian Caulfield (PI and manager, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland),
  • Aruna Sivakumar (Doctoral advisor, Imperial College London, U.K.),
  • Eric Miller (Collaborator, University of Toronto),
  • Audrey de Nazelle (Collaborator, Center for Environmental Policy, Imperial College London),
  • Stephen Boyles (MS Thesis Examiner, UT Austin),
  • Nagendra Velaga (Research Mentor, IIT Bombay),
  • Raaj Ramsankaran (Undergraduate Faculty Advisor, IIT Bombay)
  • This website was last updated on 15/03/2026.