DR. DIBYENDU PAL
Associate Professor
Traffic data collection and analysis, Traffic flow theory and modeling, Road safety audit and accident analysis
Certified "Road Safety Auditor" by Indian Academy of Highway Engineers (Sponsored by MORTH, GoI), Noida.
E-mail: dpl [AT] nerist(dot)ac(dot)in, pal_here00[AT]yahoo(dot)co(dot)in;
Phone(EPBX/Office): 0360-2257401-10 (extn 6128);
Mobile: +91-9402275919
- Professional Background
- Honors and Awards
- Educational Qualification
- Administrative Background
- Memberships in Professional bodies
- Teaching Engagements
- PhDs Supervised
- Projects and Thesis Supervised/ Currently Supervising
- Participation in short-term courses
- Courses or Conferences Organized
- Special Lectures Delivered
- Publications
- Reviewer
- Major Consultancy/Sponsored Project
From(Date of Joining) | To | Designation | Organisation | Nature of Association |
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09.02.2022 | Till date | Associate Professor | NERIST, Nirjuli, Arunachal Pradesh | Regular |
09.02.2010 | 08.02.2022 | Assistant Professor | NERIST, Nirjuli, Arunachal Pradesh | Regular |
07.08.2009 | 22.12.2009 | Engineer | SAI Consulting Engineers Pvt. Ltd. Ahmedabad | Regular |
30.06.2006 | 30.07.2007 | Junior Engineer | Gammon India Limited, Mumbai | Regular |
Award | Institute | Year |
---|---|---|
Gold and Topper(1%) on FDP on 'Reinforced Concrete Road Bridges' | AICTE-NPTEL (IIT Kharagpur) | 2018 |
Best paper awarded at SSRCE09 | IIT Madras | 2009 |
TA during M.Tech | IIT Guwahati | 2007-2009 |
Gate Qualified – AIR- 481 | MHRD, Govt of India | 2006 |
National Scholarship after class VIII | Govt. of Tripura | 1995 |
Degree | Subject | University | Year |
---|---|---|---|
PhD | Traffic Engineering | IIT Guwahati | April' 2016 |
M.Tech | Transportation Systems Engineering | IIT Guwahati | 2009 |
B.Tech | Civil Engineering | NERIST, Nirjuli (Itanagar) | 2006 |
Contributions to Organization Managements
SL No. |
Designation |
From |
To |
1. | Convener and Member, Board of Studies, Civil Engineering Department, NERIST |
Session 2023-24 |
2025-26 |
2. |
Member, Online Examination Technical support committee |
20/05/2020 | |
3. |
Member, Board of Studies, Civil Engineering Department, NERIST |
28/08/2017 | 27/08/2020 |
4. |
Chairman, Annual Physical Stock Verification committee of Hostel Block-B, NERIST |
2018-2019 | |
5. |
Member, NIRF Committee, NERIST |
27/10/2021 | 1 year |
6. |
Member, seating arrangement and procession management committee, 8th convocation of NERIST |
Feb 2022 | |
7. |
Member, Annual Physical stock verification committee |
2013-2014, 2016-2017, 2019-2020, 2020-2021 |
|
8. |
Warden of Boys Hostel-B, NERIST |
13/03/2012 |
03/01/2014 |
9. |
Member of Anti Ragging committee, NERIST Boys Hostel |
July-August: 2013, 2015 |
|
10. |
CR of NERIST Entrance Examination |
2012, 2013, 2015, 2023,2024 |
|
11. |
Member, Shristi Committee at NERIST |
10/10/2016 |
21/07/2017 |
12. |
Student Counselors at NERIST |
23/06/2017 |
|
Contributions to Departmental Managements
Sl. No. |
Designation |
From |
To |
1. | NBA Departmental Coordinator, Department of Civil Engineering, NERIST | Feb. 02, 2024 | till date |
2. | Departmental Web Coordinator, Department of Civil Engineering, NERIST | Feb. 02, 2024 | till date |
3. | Lab In-charge, Highway Engineering Lab, Department of Civil Engineering, NERIST | Feb. 02, 2024 | till date |
4. | Departmental MOOC’s coordinator, Department of Civil Engineering, NERIST | July 18, 2022 | till date |
5. | Lab In-charge, Structural Engineering, and Computer Laboratory, Department of Civil Engineering, NERIST | January 23, 2017 | Feb. 01, 2024 |
6. | Member, Central library committee at NERIST | March 2010 | 2014 |
7. | Member, INDEST user committee at NERIST | March 2010 | August 2011 |
8. |
Representative to ET cell, Department of Civil Engineering, NERIST |
August 2011 |
July 2015 |
9. | Lab In-charge,Computer Lab, Department of Civil Engineering, NERIST |
April 2010 |
March 2013 |
10. |
Lab In-charge, Highway Engineering Lab, Department of Civil Engineering , NERIST |
August 2011 |
March 2013 |
11. |
Training and Placement Counselor, Department of Civil Engineering , NERIST |
August 2014 |
February 03, 2017 |
12. |
Member, Departmental academic, Purchase and Infrastructure Development committee |
January 23, 2017 |
Feb. 01, 2024 |
13. |
Faculty mentors, Class Review Committee of Degree 1st year (3rd year of 4 years Degree) |
August 11, 2017 |
for 2 year |
- American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)- Associate Member
- Transportation research group of India (TRG)—Life Member
- World Conference on Transport Research (WCTR)- Member
- Indian Roads Congress (IRC)—Life Member
- Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE)—Life Member
- The Institute of Engineers (India)-Member, Chartered Engineer (India)
Sl. No. | Course Code | Course title | Level |
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1. |
CE9013 | Traffic Engineering | PhD |
2. |
CE9014 | Traffic Flow Modeling and Simulation | PhD |
3. |
GTE7007 | Pavement Design | P.G. |
4. |
GTE8099 | Project/Dissertation | P.G. |
5. |
GTE8100 | Seminar on Selected Topics of the Specialization | P.G. |
6. |
CE23005 | Urban Transportation Planning | B.Tech |
7. |
CE22251 | Computer-Aided Civil Engineering Drawing | B.Tech |
8. |
CE4104/ CE22105 | Transportation Engineering I | DIPLOMA/ B.Tech |
9. |
CE23166 | Study Tour (Audit) | B.Tech |
10. |
ES21151 | Engineering Graphics and Design | B.Tech |
11. |
CE6029 | Traffic Engineering | Degree |
12. |
CE6105/ CE6151 | Computational Methods in Civil Engineering | Degree |
13. |
CE6010 | Pavement Design | Degree |
14. |
CE6179 | Industrial Training | Degree |
15. |
CE6199/CE6299/ CE24199 | Project (Degree/B.Tech) | Degree |
16. |
CE5104/ CE23104 | Transportation Engineering-II | Degree/ B.Tech |
17. |
CE5204 | Design of Steel Structures-II | Degree |
18. |
CE5205 | Design of RCC structure II | Degree |
19. |
CE6201 | Planning, Estimation and Valuation | Degree |
20. |
CE4301 | Geotechnical and Transportation Engineering | Degree |
21. |
CE4403 | Structural Analysis and Steel Structure | Degree |
22. |
CE4202 | Design of Steel Structure-I | DIPLOMA |
23. |
CE4201 | Design of RCC structure I | DIPLOMA |
24. |
CE4101 | Structural Analysis I | DIPLOMA |
25. |
CE2103/ CE3103 | Surveying-I | BASE/ DIPLOMA |
26. |
CE4299 | Project (Diploma) | DIPLOMA |
27. |
CE3151 | Engineering Graphics | DIPLOMA |
28. |
CE3202 | Surveying II | DIPLOMA |
29. |
CE2253 | Civil Engineering Drafting-I | BASE |
30. |
CE2250 | Civil Engineering Workshop | BASE |
31. |
CE2105 | Estimating & Quantity Surveying | BASE |
32. |
ES1151 | Engineering Drawing | BASE |
PhD Supervised
Sl. No. | Title of Thesis | Name of student(s) | Status of PhD | Awarded in Year |
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1. |
Analysis and Modeling of Driver Injury Severity in Road Traffic Accidents of North-East Region of India |
Mr. Neero Gumsar Sorum |
Awarded |
2023 (Dec 01) |
2. |
Analysis of Traffic Characteristics on curve sections |
Mr. Sourav Kumar |
Ongoing |
|
Post Graduate (PG)
Sl. No. | Title of Dissertation / Project | Name of student(s) | Semester/year | Level |
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1. | Ongoing: Prediction of CBR of Soils with additives using AI | Nabam Tado (MT/23/GTE/008) | 2024-25 | PG |
2. | Ongoing: Prediction of CBR of Soils using AI | Salam Medhajit (MT/23/GTE/013) | 2024-25 | PG |
3. |
Analysis of Rutting in Flexible Pavement analysis using Finite Element Method |
Lipi Ori (MT/22/GTE/006) |
2023-24 |
PG |
4. |
Estimation of Maximum Tensile Stress on Rigid Pavement for Varying Surface Temperature |
Deepa Das (MT/21/GTE/012) |
2022-23 |
PG |
5. |
A Study on the Effects of Waste Paper Ash and Tetra Pak on the Strength Behavior of Subgrade Soil |
Padi Kobing (MT/21/GTE/010) |
2022-23 |
PG |
6. |
Comparative Performance Analysis of Recycled and Virgin Aggregates as Base Course in Flexible Pavement |
Taba Rinya (MT/20/GTE/010)
|
2021-22 |
PG |
7. |
Structural Performance Analysis of Flooded Flexible Pavement Using Finite Element Method |
Tao Tania (MT/20/GTE/008) |
2021-22 |
PG |
8. |
Finite Element Analysis of Rigid Pavement Using Everfe 2.26 |
Ganno Lego (MT/19/GTE/006) |
2020-21 |
PG |
9. |
An experimental study on soil |
Chukhu Tagar (MT/19/GTE/021) |
2020-21 |
PG |
10. |
Analysis and Modelling of Flexible Pavement using FEM |
Rashidul Islam (MT/18/GTE/03) |
2019-20 |
PG |
11. |
Improvement of Unpaved Shoulder using Geocell |
Prashant Kumar (MT/17/GTE/007) |
2018-19 |
PG |
Under Graduate (UG)
Course Name | Sponsored By | Date |
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STTP on 'NBA Accreditation and Document Preparation' | NITTTR Kolkata | Jul. 18-22, 2022 |
Workshop on 'R&D funding opportunities by SERB-DST: Awareness workshop for researchers from Nort-East institutions' organised by IASST, Guwahati | SERB, Govt. of India | Jul. 14-15, 2022 |
Certification course for 'Road Safety Auditor' | IAHE, Noida (MORTH) | Feb. 01-15, 2021 |
STTP on 'Introduction to ICT Tools for Teaching and Learning' | NITTTR Kolkata | Oct. 05-16, 2020 |
STTP on 'Advanced Engineering Optimization Through Intelligent Techniques (AEOTIT)' | SVNIT Surat | Sept. 01-05, 2020 |
BIGRS IndiaRAP Webinar: World Bank and iRAP helping save lives on Indian roads. | BIGRS and IndiaRAP | June (2,4,9 and 11), 2020 |
National Level Training Programme on 'Disaster Management' | NIDM, MHA, GoI | Feb. 27-29, 2020 |
FDP on 'ICT Tools for Teaching, Learning Process & Institutes' | MeitY, GoI | Jan. 13-17, 2020 |
Online FDP course on 'Reinforced Concrete Road Bridges' | NPTEL-AICTE | Aug-Sept. 2018 |
Online FDP course on 'Regression Analysis' | NPTEL-AICTE | Jul-Oct. 2018 |
Online FDP course on 'Technical English for Engineers' | NPTEL-AICTE | Aug-Sept. 2018 |
Workshop on the Role of Local Chapters of NPTEL | IIT Kanpur | April 29, 2017 |
Sustainable Urban Transportation System | AICTE, IITKGP | March 23-25, 2017 |
Pedagogy Training for Outcome Based Education | NITTR, Bhopal | March 16-17, 2017 |
Challenges and Recent Advances in Geotechnical Engineering Research and Practices |
AICTE | March 09-13, 2015 |
Innovative Technologies in Transportation Engineering | AICTE | Feb 23-27, 2015 |
Advances in Environmental health | AICTE | Feb 09-13, 2015 |
Solid Waste Management-Challenges and Opportunities | MHRD, GOI | Jan 12-14, 2015 |
Computer Application in Structural Analysis and Design of Building including Foundation | NITTTR | Sept 09-13, 2013 |
Recent Advances in Tribology and Materials for Tribological Applications | MHRD, GOI | April 10-14, 2013 |
Recent Advances: Pavement Materials and Design | AICTE | April 23-27, 2012 |
Recent Advances in Mechanics and their Application in Nano Engineering & Technology | AICTE | Aug 01 - 12, 2011 |
Infrastructure Development and Construction management | AICTE | Jan 17 – 21, 2011 |
Teaching Methodology | NITTTR | Jan 03–07, 2011 |
Seismic Design of Building & Bridges | AICTE | Nov 29–Dec 03, 2010 |
Renewable Energy Technology: Issues & Prospectus | MNRE and DST | Sept 24-25, 2010 |
Road Maintenance & Safety | AICTE | Oct 11 – 15, 2010 |
Short-Term Course / Conference Name, and Role | Sponsored By | Date |
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Technical Committee Member of "2024 The 12th International Conference on Information Technology and Science (ICITS 2024)" to be held in Phuket Island, Thailand. | June 19-21, 2024 | |
International Technical Committee Member of "2024 9th International Conference on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence (ICMAI 2024)" to be held in Beijing, China. | May 10-12, 2024 | |
Technical Committee Member of "2023 International Conference on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence (ICMAI 2023)" held at Chongqing, China. | April 07-09, 2023 | |
Chairman, Organizing Committee of "National Conference on Civil, Geotech and Transport Research (CGTR-2017)" held at NERIST, Nirjuli (Itanagar), India. | Self-Sponsored | October 14-15, 2017 |
Coordinator of "Advances in Design of Reinforced Concrete Structures" held at NERIST, Nirjuli (Itanagar), India. | Self-Sponsored | August 26-30, 2017 |
Coordinator of "Industry Institute Interaction with ECLAT Engineering Consultants", Hyderabad held at NERIST, Nirjuli (Itanagar), India. | AICTE/TEQIP | Sept 25-26, 2016 |
Coordinator of "Advances in Traffic Flow and Environmental Management" held at NERIST, Nirjuli (Itanagar), India. | AICTE/TEQIP | April 17-21, 2012 |
Title | Place | Date |
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|
ICFAI University Tripura |
August 09, 2021 |
|
NERIST, Nirjuli (Itanagar) | April 17-21, 2012 |
Journal Papers
International:
- Sorum, N. G., and Pal, D. (2023). "Modeling of Driver Injury Severity in Single and Two-vehicle accidents using Binary Logistic Regression with interaction." (Under Review)
- Das, D., and Pal, D. (2024). "Estimation of Maximum Tensile Stress on Rigid Pavement for Varying Surface Temperature." (Accepted on October 03, 2024). (SCOPUS)
- Sorum, N. G., and Pal, D. (2024). "Modeling Driver Injury Severity Using Machine Learning Algorithms ." Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering, 00, 1-15. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1139/cjce-2023-0503 (SCI)
- Sorum, N. G., and Pal, D. (2024). "Identification of the Best Machine Learning Model for the Prediction of Driver Injury Severity." International Journal of Injury Control and Safety Promotion, 1–16, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/17457300.2024.2335478 (SSCI)
- Sorum, N. G., and Pal, D. (2024). "Analysis of Influencing Factors on Driver Injury Severity: A Case Study of Arunachal Pradesh, India." Advances in Transportation Studies, 62, 89-110. (SCOPUS)
- Das, D., Paul, A., and Pal, D. (2024). "Analysis of Doweled Multi-slab Concrete Pavement System for Critical Stress and Dowel Slab Action." Civil Engineering and Architecture, 12(1), 391 - 400. DOI: https://doi.org/10.13189/cea.2024.120129 (SCOPUS)
- Sorum, N. G., and Pal, D. (2022). "Effect of Distracting Factors on Driving Performance: A Review." Civil Engineering Journal, 8 (02), 382-405. DOI: https://doi.org/10.28991/CEJ-2022-08-02-014 (SCOPUS/WOS)
- Pal, D., and Chunchu, M. (2020). "Effect of Vehicular Lateral Gap Models on Heterogeneous Traffic Stream Behavior ." Transportation Letters, 12(06), 399-407. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/19427867.2019.1611709 (SCI)
- Pal, D., and Chunchu, M. (2019). "Modeling of lateral Gap Maintaining Behavior of Vehicles in Heterogeneous Traffic Stream." Transportation Letters, 11(7), 373-381. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/19427867.2017.1369633 (SCI)
- Pal, D., and Chunchu, M. (2018). "Smoothing of Vehicular Trajectories under Heterogeneous Traffic Conditions to Extract Microscopic Data ." Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering, 45(6), 423-434. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1139/cjce-2017-0452 (SCI)
- Pal, D., and Mallikarjuna, C. (2010). “Cellular Automata Cell Structure for Modeling Heterogeneous Traffic.” Transportei Europei. n-45, 50-63. (SCOPUS)
Conference Papers (SCOPUS/WOS)
- Pal, D., Suvin, P. V., and Chunchu, M. (2020). "Characteristics of Vehicular Lateral Shifts in Non-lane-disciplined Traffic Stream." Transportation Research Procedia, 48, 3245-3253. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trpro.2020.08.153.(SCOPUS)
- Pal, D., and Sreenivasulu, S. (2019). "Impact of vehicular lateral placement on speed under non-lane discipline traffic stream." J. Phys.: Conf. Ser., 1298, 012016. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/1298/1/012016.(SCOPUS)
- Pal, D., and Mallikarjuna, C. (2016). "Analysis of the Effect of Variable Lateral Gap Maintaining Behavior of Vehicles on Traffic Flow Modeling." Procedia Engineering, Elsevier, 142, 197-203. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.proeng.2016.02.032 (SCOPUS)
- Mallikarjuna, C., Budde, T., and Pal, D. (2013). “Analysis of the Lateral Gap Maintaining Behavior of Vehicles in Heterogeneous Traffic Streams.” Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, Elsevier, 104, 370-379. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sbspro.2013.11.130 (WOS)
Conference Attended
International:
- Rinya, T., and Pal, D. (2024). "Comparative Performance Analysis of Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement and Virgin Aggregates as Base Layer Materials in Flexible Pavement." 15th International Conference on Materials and Manufacturing Technologies (ICMMT 2024), Nha Trang, Vietnam, March 22-24.
- Pal, D., Suvin, P. V., and Chunchu, M. (2019). "Characteristics of Vehicular Lateral Shifts in Non-lane-disciplined Traffic Stream." 15th World Conference on Transportation Research (WCTR), IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India, May 26-31.
- Pal, D., and Sreenivasulu, S. (2019). "Impact of vehicular lateral placement on speed under non-lane discipline traffic stream." 9th International Conference on Applied Physics and Mathematics (ICAPM 2019), Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, January 21-23.
- Pal, D., and Mallikarjuna, C. (2016). "Vehicle Trajectory correction using Empirical Mode Decomposition." 12th Transportation Planning and Implementation Methodologies for Developing Countries (TPMDC), IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India, December 19-21.
- Pal, D., and Mallikarjuna, C. (2016). "Impact of Variable Lateral Gap Maintaining Behavior of Vehicles on Macroscopic Traffic Relations." 14th World Conference on Transportation Research (WCTR), Shanghai, China, July 11-16.
- Pal, D., and Mallikarjuna, C. (2014). "Correction of Vehicle’s Trajectory Extracted from Video Image Processing." 19th International Conference of HKSTS, Hongkong, December 13-15.
- Mallikarjuna, C., Budde, T., and Pal, D. (2013). "Analysis of the Lateral Gap Maintaining Behavior of Vehicles in Heterogeneous Traffic Streams." 2nd Conference of Transportation Research Group of India (2nd CTRG), Agra, India, December 12-15.
- Pal, D. (2012). "Capacity of Hilly Roads under Mixed Traffic Conditions: A Case Study." International Research Conference on Management, Engineering, and Technology (IRCMET), Bangkok, Thailand, March 2-3.
National:
- Pal, D., and Mallikarjuna C. (2009). "Effect of Lateral Gap Maintaining Behavior on the Structure of the Cellular Automata Based Traffic Flow Model." Student Symposium on Research in Civil Engineering, SSRCE09, IIT Madras, Chennai, India.
Patent(s)
- Kumar, S., and Pal, D.(2023)."Pole for Vehicle Movement & Environmental Data Collection." Patent and Design Journal, Journal No. 21/2023 (Part III-Designs), Dated 26/05/2023, Class 14-02, Date of Registration 02/08/2022, Government of India.
- Journal of Advanced Transportation (Wiley)
- Transportation Letters (Taylor & Francis)
- Journal of Engineering and Sustainable Development
- TRG2013 (2nd International Conference of Transportation Research Group of India)
- TIPCE-2022 (2nd International Conference on Transportation Infrastructure Projects Conception to Execution)
- CoMSO 2022 (3rd International Conference on Modeling simulation and optimization)
-
CTSEM2023 (9th Conference on Transportation Systems Engineering and Management)
SL. |
Year |
Title of Work |
Title of Project |
Client |
Project Value /Cost (Rs. in Lakhs) |
1. |
2022-2023 |
Vetting of Detailed Project Report (DPR) of the project- “Bypass Road from NH-415 at Chimpu to NH-415 at Papu Nallah via Jollang (11.00 km)” |
Bypass Road from NH-415 at Chimpu to NH-415 at Papu Nallah via Jollang (11.00 km) |
The Chief Engineer, Western Zone, Public Works Department, Government of Arunachal Pradesh, Itanagar. |
Project cost: 4800 Lakhs; Mobilized: 5.664 Lakhs |
2. |
2022-2023 |
Vetting of DPR under NESIDS "C/o Construction of Multi Sports Facility Outdoor Stadium at Namsai."” |
Construction of Multi Sports Facility Outdoor Stadium at Namsai |
Public Works Department, Government of Arunachal Pradesh. |
Project cost: 3800 Lakhs; Mobilized: 4.484 Lakhs |
3. |
2023-2024 |
"Technical Vetting of Monsoon Drain RCC Cover Slab at ALG Ziro". | "Monsoon Drain RCC Cover Slab at ALG Ziro". |
M/S T. Y. Traders, Ziro, Hapoli, Arunachal Pradesh-791120. |
Mobilized:1.18 Lakhs |