Dr. Suprava Jena

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Assistant Professor
Phone: +91-7008534828
Email: suprava[at]civil.nits.ac.in
Date of Joining: 15/07/2019
Academic/Industrial Experience (in years): 4 years

 

 

 

 

 

ACADEMIC / INDUSTRIAL EXPERIENCE (Details)

>July 2019 – Till date, Assistant Professor at Department of Civill Engineering NIT Silchar, Assam, India

>Aug 2018 – July 2019 Assistant Professor at Department of Civill Engineering MITS, AP, India.

 

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS (FULL DETAILS )

  • Ph.D. (Transportation Engineering)- National Institute of Technology Rourkela in 2018.
  • B.Tech. (Civil Engineering)-Orissa Engineering College in 2013.

 

AREA OF INTEREST AND SPECIALIZATION (INCLUDING RESEARCH AREA)

  • Traffic flow modelling and simulation
  • Safety Assessment and Level of Service of different transportation facilities and infrastructure,
  • Transportation system Planning

 

SHORT BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

Dr. Suprava Jena was born in Cuttack, Odisha in the year 1992, and completed her Higher Secondary Education from SVM Autonomous College, Jagatsinghpur in  the year 2009. She has received her Bachelor of Technology degree in Civil Engineering from Orissa Engineering College, Bhubaneswar in the year 2013, and also acquired her Ph. D. degree in the area “Performance assessment of urban street facilities addressing improvement issues of automobile mode” from National Institute of Technology Rourkela in the year 2018.  At present, She is working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, National Institute of Technology Silchar, Assam, India. She has three years of teaching and research experience in Civil Engineering. Her area of interest is Traffic flow modelling and simulation,  Safety Assessment and Level of Service of different transportation facilities and infrastructure, Transportation system planning etc. Prior to joining NIT Silchar, She was working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at MITS, AP  from 2018-2019. She has published 18 research papers in different International Journals and conferences. She has guided 11 PG students and currently, She has been the supervisor to 08 PG students as well as 04 PhD scholars [02 Main Supervisor; 02 Co-supervisor]. Currently she is working on Traffic flow modelling and Safety assessment of different transportation facilities as well as infrastructure.

 

PATENT(S)

 

 

EDITORSHIP

 

 

BOOKS / BOOK CHAPTERS

1. Jena, S., Priyanka, A., Beura, S. K., and Bhuyan, P. K. (2016). “Application of Fuzzy Inference System to Estimate LOS Criteria of Urban Road Segments.” Advances in Intelligent Systems & Computing, Springer, 467:639-651. DOI 10.1007/978-981-10-1645-5_54
2. Beura, S. K., Chellapilla, H., Jena, S., and Bhuyan, P. K. (2016). “Service Quality Assessment of Shared Use Road Segments: A Pedestrian Perspective.” Advances in Intelligent Systems & Computing, Springer, 467:653-669. DOI 10.1007/978-981-10-1645-5_55

 

SUBJECTS TAUGHT (INCLUDING SUBJECTS CURRENTLY TEACHING)
Traffic Engineering (UG & PG),
Transportation Engineering (UG),
Transportation Engineering-II (UG),
Airport Planning and Design (PG),

 

Civil Engineering Material Testing and Evaluation (UG),
Environmental Science and Engineering (UG),
Transportation Engineering Lab (UG & PG),
Civil Engineering Material Testing and Evaluation Laboratory (UG),
Concrete Technology Laboratory (UG),
Geo-Science Laboratory (UG).

 

MEMBER

Life member of Transportation Research Group of India

Life member of Indian Road Congress

AWARDS & RECOGNITIONS

 

 

ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSIBILITY

  • Member of DUPC for B.Tech. students, NIT Silchar (Nov’20-till now)
  • Departmental Coordinator for Spoken Tutorial (Sep’19-till now)
  • Coordinator of Gyansagar (Mar’21-till now)
  • Asso. Warden GH-1 (Jan’2021-Mar’2022)

 

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PUBLICATIONS:

INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS

1. Vivek, A. K., Mohapatra, S. S., and Jena, S. (2022). “Evaluation of user perception to define level of service criteria of rail road grade crossing: An exploratory statistical approach”, Transport Policy, 122(5):64-76, Elsevier; DOI:10.1016/j.tranpol.2022.04.013

2. Kamalnath, M., Dutta, M. and Jena, S. (2022) “Studying Aggressive Clearing Behavior of Drivers at Uncontrolled Intersections under Mixed Traffic Conditions”, Journal of The Institute of Engineers (India): Series -A, 103(2022):639–645, Springer; DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/s40030-022-00634-4

3. Jena, S., Patro, S., Dutta, M., and Bhuyan, P. K. (2020). “Assessment of Service Quality at Unsignalized Intersections using Traffic Simulation and Computational Intelligence.” Transportation Letters YTRL, 14(4):365-377  DOI: 10.1080/19427867.2020.1868179

4. Kar, M., Jena, S., Chakraborty, A., and Bhuyan, P. K. (2020). “Modelling Service Quality Offered by Signalized Intersections from Automobile Users’ Perspective in Urban Indian Context.” Transportation Research Procedia, 48: 904-922. DOI: 10.1016/j.trpro.2020.08.109

5. Jena, S., Pradhan, D. K., and Bhuyan, P. K. (2019). “Modelling Automobile Users’ Response Pattern in Defining Urban Street Level of Service.” Transport, VGTU, Taylor and Francis, 34(3): 287-299. DOI: 10.3846/transport.2019.9405

6. Jena, S., Chakraborty, A., and Bhuyan, P. K. (2018). “Performance assessment of urban streets addressing improvement issues for automobile mode of transport.” Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, 2672(45): 232-241. DOI: 10.1177/0361198118782761

7. Jena, S., Atmakuri, P., and Bhuyan, P. K. (2017). “Evaluating Service Criteria of Urban Streets in Developing Countries based on Road Users’ Perception.” Transportation in Developing Economies, Springer. 4. DOI: 10.1007/s40890-017-0055-8

 

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES

1. Deb, M., Jena, S., & Dutta, M. (2021). “Modelling and Exploring the Impacts of E-Grocery Shopping on Trip Generation in India.” PREPARE@u® | IEI Conferences. https://doi.org/10.36375/prepare_u.iei.a126

2. Kamalnath, M., Dutta, M. and Jena, S. (2021). “Studying Aggressive Clearing Behavior of Drivers at Uncontrolled Intersections under Mixed Traffic Conditions” PREPARE@u® | IEI Conferences. DOI:https://doi.org/10.36375/prepare_u.iei.a125

3. Dutta, M., Matade, R. C., and Jena, S. (2021). “Comparison of Time-to-Collision and Yaw Rate as Conflict Indicators in Less Organized Traffic Conditions.” Research Symposium of the Urban Mobility India Conference, Kochi, India.

4. Jena, S., Chakraborty, A., and Bhuyan, P. K. (2018). “Performance assessment of urban streets addressing improvement issues for automobile mode of transport.” 97th TRB Annual Meeting of Transportation Research Board, Washington, D.C

5. Jena, S., Kar, M., and Bhuyan, P. K. (2019). “Investigating service performance of signalized intersections operating under mixed traffic condition.” 98th TRB Annual Meeting of Transportation Research Board, Washington, D.C

6. Jena, S., Chakraborty, A., and Bhuyan, P. K. (2017). “Determining urban street Levels of service in developing cities.” 4th Conference of Transportation Research Group of India, IIT Bombay, India

7. Jena, S., Dholawala, H., Panda, M., and Bhuyan, P. K. (2017). “Assessment of induced fuzziness in passenger s perspective of transit service quality.” 4th Conference of Transportation Research Group of India, IIT Bombay, India

8. Jena, S., Atmakuri, P., and Bhuyan, P. K. (2016). “Evaluating Service Criteria of Urban Streets in Developing Countries based on Road Users’ Perception.” 12th Transportation Planning and Implementation Methodologies for Developing Countries, IIT Bombay, India.

9. Jena, S., Beura, S. K., and Bhuyan, P. K. (2016). “Tangible Service Level Assessment of Urban Streets using Point System.” 12th Transportation Planning and Implementation Methodologies for Developing Countries, IIT Bombay, India

10. Jena, S., Priyanka, A., Beura, S. K., and Bhuyan, P. K. (2015). “Application of Fuzzy Inference System to Estimate LOS Criteria of Urban Road Segment.” International Conference on Communication, Control, Instrumentation & Computational Technology, R. L. Jalappa Institute of Technology, Bangalore, India

11. Kar, M., Jena, S., Chakrabarty, A., and Bhuyan, P. K. (2019). “Modelling Service Quality Offered by Signalized Intersections from Automobile Users’ Perspective.” World Conference on Transport Research (WCTR), Mumbai, India.

12. Chakraborty, A., Jena, S., and Bhuyan, P. K. (2017). “Neural Network Approach to Determine LOS Criteria of Urban Streets for Developing Countries.” Urbanization challenges in emerging economies, ASCE, New Delhi, India.

13. Beura, S. K. Haritha, C., Jena, S., and Bhuyan, P. K. (2015). “Service Quality Assessment of Shared Use Road Segments: A Pedestrian Perspective.” International Conference on Communication, Control, Instrumentation & Computational Technology, R. L. Jalappa Institute of Technology, Bangalore, India.

 

PROJECT

(Co-PI): ” Design and development of solar photovoltaic powered cane slicing machine” sponsored by DST-SEED, Women Technology Park, 2022-2025, Status: Approved, Fund: INR 24.1 Lakhs

 

WORKSHOP / CONFERENCE ORGANIZED

  •  Modern Trends in Transportation Engineering during  25th -29th June, 2020 in association with TEQIP III.
  •  One Week Online Faculty Development Programme on “Arduino” during  26th July-1st Aug, 2021 in association with IIT Bombay.
  •  Sustainability in Transportation Engineering: Innovation and Entrepreneurship Opportunities” (STEIEO) during 21st -25th Mar, 2022 in association with Institution’s Innovation Council.

 

Ph.D. SCHOLARS

  • On-going-04 Full-time PhD scholars [02 Main Supervisor; 02 Co-supervisor].
  • On-going-01 Part-time PhD scholar [Co-supervisor].

 

M.TECH. SCHOLARS

  • Completed-11
  • On-going -08 [05 Full-time+03 Part time]

 

About Suprava Jena

Dr. Suprava Jena was born in Cuttack, Odisha in the year1992, and completed her Higher Secondary Education from SVM Autonomous College, Jagatsinghpur in the year 2009. She has received her Bachelor of Technology degree in Civil Engineering from Orissa Engineering College, Bhubaneswar in the year 2013, and also acquired her Ph. D. degree on the area "Performance assessment of urban street facilities addressing improvement issues of automobile mode" from National Institute of Technology Rourkela in the year 2018.  At present, She is working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, National Institute of Technology Silchar, Assam, India. She has three years of teaching and research experience in Civil Engineering. Her area of interest is Traffic engineering, Road safety Assessment, Transportation system planning etc. Prior to joining NIT Silchar, she was working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at MITS, AP  from 2018-2019. She has published 18 research papers in different International Journals and conferences. She has guided 12 PG students and currently she has been the supervisor to 7 PG students as well as 04 PhD scholars [02 Main Supervisor; 02 Co-supervisor].