Faculty & Research

Sandip Chakrabarti

Area

Primary Area : Public Systems

Contact

Email : sandipc@iima.ac.in

Phone : +91-79-7152 4949

Secretary : Suresh Mannem

Phone : +91-79-7152 7975

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Education

Ph.D., Sol Price School of Public Policy, University of Southern California, 2015

Teaching

MBA Core:

  • Government Systems and the Policy Process
  • Business, Environment and Sustainability

MBA Electives:

  • Innovations in Managing Urban Transport
  • Urban Economy and Business Environment
  • Experiments for Business and Policy Decision-making

ePGP (e-MBA) Electives:

  • Managing Transportation
  • Experiments for Business and Policy Decision-making

Ph.D. Core

  • Research Communication
  • Methods in Policy Analysis and Research
  • Public Finance

Ph.D. Elective

  • Public Policy and Economics of the Transport Sector

Faculty Development Programme (FDP)

  • Public Policy and Development
  • GIS and Spatial Analysis (guest session)
  • Smart Cities - Planning and Policy Issues (guest session)

Previously, at the University of Southern California and the University of New Orleans

  • Institutional and Policy Issues in Transportation
  • Land Use - Transportation Interactions
  • Environmental Justice in Cities
  • Urban Social Policy

Research Area

Transport policy analysis

Transportation demand analysis and modeling

Land use-transportation interactions

Travel behavior/choice analysis

Public transit planning and policy

Active travel

Parking

Multi-modal system performance measurement and monitoring

Impact analysis of new transportation investments

Applications of big data in transportation

Academic Experience

Associate Professor, Public Systems Group, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, (2021-present)

Assistant Professor, Public Systems Group, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017-2021

Assistant Professor, Department of Planning and Urban Studies, UNO Transportation Institute, University of New Orleans, 2016-2017

Postdoctoral Fellow/Research Associate, METRANS Transportation Center, Sol Price School of Public Policy, University of Southern California, 2015-2016

Doctoral Research Fellow, METRANS Transportation Center, Sol Price School of Public Policy, University of Southern California, 2010-2015

Researcher, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Summer 2013

Research Associate, Department of Architecture and Regional Planning, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, 2007-2008

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Academic Services

Referee: 

Urban Studies (SAGE), Transportation Research Part A (Elsevier), Journal of Transport Geography (Elsevier), International Journal of Sustainable Transportation (Taylor and Francis), Transport Policy (Elsevier), Travel Behavior and Society (Elsevier), Public Transport (Springer), Journal of Urban Technology (Taylor and Francis), Transportation Research Board, Transportation Research Record Journal (SAGE), Trasportation in Developing Economies (Springer)

Professional Services

Expert panels: 

Member, Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Panel on Electric Battery Buses - State of the Practice, Transportation Research Board, The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (2016-17); Friend member of several standing committees of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academies, USA; Planning committee member, 2017 GIS in Transit Conference, Washington, DC.

Awards & Honors

2017 - Chester Rapkin Award for Best Paper in the Journal of Planning Education and Research, U.S. Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning

2013 - Award for Excellence in Teaching, University of Southern California

2009 - V.N. Prasad National Best Thesis Award (Gold Medal), Institute of Town Planners, India

2009 - Mott MacDonald Professional Excellence (Best Paper) Award

2008 - S.N. Haldar (Regional) Best Thesis Award (Gold Medal), Institute of Town Planners, India

2014-15 - C. Lowell Harriss (International) Dissertation Fellowship, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 2014-15

2013-14 - Lusk Center for Real Estate Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, University of Southern California, 2013-14

2010-13 - Sol Price School of Public Policy Doctoral Fellowship, University of Southern California, 2010-13

2018 - Conference Travel Scholarship, Volvo Education and Research Foundations

2014 - Conference Travel Scholarship, Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning

2013 - Hagman Scholarship, 27th Land Use Law and Planning Conference, UCLA

2013 - AESOP-ACSP Conference Travel Scholarship, University of Southern California

Communications committee member, Global Planning Educators' Interest Group (GPEIG), Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP), USA.

2016-17 - Member, Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Panel on Electric Battery Buses - State of the Practice, Transportation Research Board, The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, 2016-17

Academic Experience

Associate Professor, Public Systems Group, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, (2021-present)

Assistant Professor, Public Systems Group, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017-2021

Assistant Professor, Department of Planning and Urban Studies, UNO Transportation Institute, University of New Orleans, 2016-2017

Postdoctoral Fellow/Research Associate, METRANS Transportation Center, Sol Price School of Public Policy, University of Southern California, 2015-2016

Doctoral Research Fellow, METRANS Transportation Center, Sol Price School of Public Policy, University of Southern California, 2010-2015

Researcher, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Summer 2013

Research Associate, Department of Architecture and Regional Planning, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, 2007-2008

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