Dr. Bhavani Shankar Balla

Experience

Current Position

• Jun 2026 to Present: Project Research Scientist, IIT Bombay - FedEx Center for Advanced Logistics and Focused Analytics (IITB-FedEx ALFA)

Current Teaching Engagement

• Jul 2026 to Present: Guest Faculty, Work Integrated Learning Programmes (WILP), Off-campus Programmes, Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani, India

Previous Positions

• Jan 2026 to Jun 2026: Institute Postdoctoral Fellow, RCG School of Infrastructure Design and Management, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India

• Oct 2025 to Dec 2025: Project Research Scientist, Dept. of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India

• Oct 2024 to Sep 2025: Postdoctoral Fellow, Transport Research Lab, Dept. of Political Sciences, Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Rome, Italy

• Sep 2023 to Sep 2024: Project Engineer, Dept. of Civil Engineering, Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani, Hyderabad, India

• Jul 2018 to Feb 2019: Assistant Professor, Dept. of Civil Engineering, Methodist College of Engineering and Technology, Hyderabad, India

Education

• Doctorate of Philosophy, Birla Institute of Technology & Science Pilani, India, 2024

Thesis: Transferability Approach for Freight Data Measurement and Model Development in Resource-Constrained Regions

Best Thesis Award by Transportation Research Group of India

• Master of Engineering (Infrastructure Engineering), Osmania University, India, 2018