Anurag Pande

Professor | Civil and Environmental Engineering Department

Areas of Expertise

Traffic and transportation engineering

Roadway safety

Urban planning

Sustainable mobility

Bicycle and pedestrians

Transportation resilience

Service-learning

Community engagement

Contact Information

Email

Website | Service Learning Website

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Biography

Anurag Pande is a professor of civil (transportation) engineering and faculty liaison for Cal Poly’s Service-Learning program. His research interests include transportation safety, travel demand and VMT (vehicle-miles traveled) estimation, traffic simulation and analysis, and emergency evacuation and network resilience modeling. He has led and co-led several research projects funded by the National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of Transportation, Caltrans and the San Luis Obispo Council of Governments. As the faculty liaison for Service-Learning, he has worked with Cal Poly faculty and regional agencies to support projects of mutual benefit. He has managed about $2.5 million in research funding since joining Cal Poly in 2008. Pande was recognized in 2007 with the “Young Researcher Award” by the Transportation Research Board, part of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; and Cal Poly’s Distinguished Scholarship Award in spring 2022. He was also one of the invited speakers on “Changes in Traffic Safety Policies and Regulations in 7 Countries (1950-2010)” at the 2012 International Workshop organized by the International Association of Traffic and Safety Sciences. Pande is the editor of the seventh edition of the Traffic Engineering Handbook, published by the Institute of Transportation Engineers. He was appointed the chair of the American Society of Civil Engineers — Transportation and Development Institute Safety Committee in May 2022. Pande earned a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in Bombay, Mumbai; and a master’s degree and doctorate in civil engineering (transportation) from the University of Central Florida.

Education

• Ph.D. in Civil Engineering (Transportation), 2005, University of Central Florida
• Graduate Certificate in Data Mining: SAS Institute/Department of Statistics, University of Central Florida
• M.S. in Civil Engineering (Transportation), 2003, University of Central Florida
• B.Tech. in Civil Engineering, 2002, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai (India)

Awards

• Recipient of the Young Researcher Award - TRB Committee on Safety Data, Analysis, and Evaluation (Selected based on the paper presented at 85th annual meeting of the Transportation Research Board)
• Recipient of the University-level Outstanding Dissertation Award -2006 (Selected from all doctoral dissertations produced at UCF in 2005)
• Recipient of the Presidential Doctoral Fellowship as a Doctoral student at UCF (Fall'03 through the completion of degree program)
• Recipient of the Provost's Fellowship as a Masters student at UCF (Fall'02 through the completion of degree program)
• Recipient of the CATSS Scholarship as a graduate student in Transportation Engineering program at UCF (Spring 2004)
• Recipient of the Best Office Bearer award at IIT Bombay for outstanding organizational skills as the General Secretary-Hall of Residence
• Recipient of the National Scholarship Scheme - Merit Scholarship by Government of India for exceptional performance in Secondary School Examination Publications