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About me
Dr K V Krishna Rao is a Professor of Civil Engineering at the Indian
Institute of Technology Bombay. He is currently the Deputy Director (Finance
and External Affairs). Dr Rao joined IIT Bombay in 1996. He has over 35 years
of teaching, research and development experience in
Transportation Systems Engineering and planning. He completed his PhD in Urban
Transportation Planning in 1996 and his Masters in Transportation Engineering
in 1986, both from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India. He
obtained his bachelor’s degree in civil engineering in 1984 from Jawaharlal
Nehru Technological University Kakinada, Andhra Pradesh, India. His research
interests include sustainable urban land use transport planning, behavioural travel modelling, traffic design and analysis,
and pavement analysis, design and management. He has
supervised 16 PhD theses and over 90 MTech dissertations so far and completed
several sponsored research and consultancy studies in his research areas. He
has contributed significantly to preparing a highway capacity manual for India
through a multi-institutional research effort. This manual gives the capacity
and operational norms of traffic facilities having mixed traffic conditions
prevailing in India. His contribution in preparing master plans for metro rail
systems in Mumbai, Navi Mumbai and Pune is noteworthy. He has also contributed
significantly to the planning aspects of the proposed passenger water transport
systems in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region by estimating the passenger demand by
these systems. He has several publications in refereed journals and conferences
of high repute. He has also served in several administrative positions at IIT
Bombay. He has served as Vice-Chairman of the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE)
for the year 2005. As Associate Dean and Dean of Infrastructure Planning at IIT
Bombay from 2006 to 2012, he implemented the much-needed building
infrastructure adopting green norms. He has been the head of the civil
engineering department, IIT Bombay, from 2012 to 2017 and the Centre for Urban
Science and Engineering from 2020 to 2021. He was also elected to the Senate
Nominations Committee of IIT Bombay in 2018 and served as a member and
convener. He was conferred with Excellence in Teaching Award in 2008, 2012 and
2016 by IIT Bombay. He represented on several technical committees of the
Indian Roads Congress, Government Agencies, and local bodies. Dr Rao organised the prestigious 15th edition of the World
Conference on Transport Research (WCTR 2019) at IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India, from
26-31 May 2019.
Useful Links: IIT Bombay Civil Engineering
Department