Bhavani Shankar Balla

Project Research Scientist, IIT Bombay - FedEx ALFA, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

About Dr. B. S. Balla

Jun 2026 to Present: Project Research Scientist, IIT Bombay-FedEx ALFA, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India
Jul 2026 to Present: Guest Faculty, Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani, India
Jan 2026 to Jun 2026: Postdoctoral Fellow, RCG School of Infrastructure Design and Management, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India
Oct 2025 to Dec 2025: Project Research Scientist, Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India
Oct 2024 to Sep 2025: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Political Sciences, Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Rome, Italy
Sep 2023 to Sep 2024: Project Engineer, Department of Civil Engineering, Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani, Hyderabad, India

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

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

Balla, B. S., Chandra, A., Balla, S. N., Pani, A., & Sahu, P. (2025). Industry Class Stability Index (ICSI): A Novel Diagnostic Metric to Enhance the Transferability of Freight Demand Models. Research in Transportation Business & Management, 63(12), 101513.
Balla, B. S., Mishra, S., Pani, A., & Sahu, P. (2025). Incorporating Establishment Typologies into Freight Production Models: A Latent Class Approach Beyond Industry Codes. Research in Transportation Economics, 112, 101606.
Balla, B. S., & Sahu, P. K. (2023). Assessing Regional Transferability and Updating of Freight Generation Models to Reduce Sample Size Requirements in National Freight Data Collection Program. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 175, 103780.

Best Thesis Award, 8th Conference of Transportation Research Group of India - 2025
Best Poster Presentation with cash award, Vidwanostav 2023 (Technical fest for PhD Scholars), Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani, Hyderabad, India - 2023

Best Reviewer - 2023, International Journal of Construction Management - 2024
Young Achiever Alumni Award, CMR College of Engineering & Technology, Hyderabad, India - 2024

International Travel Support, Department of Science and Technology, Government of India - 2024

Academic Excellence - Bronze Medal with cash award, CMR College of Engineering and Technology - 2016
Academic Excellence - Gold Medal with cash award, CMR College of Engineering and Technology - 2014

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