I am an Assistant Professor in the Civil Engineering department of Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur.

My research focusses on applying deep-learning based computer vision techniques and large-scale data analytics for solving transportation engineering problems.

I finsihed my PhD from Iowa State University in 2019 working with Dr. Anuj Sharma & Dr. Chinmay Hegde. My Masters degree was from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur working with Dr. Partha Chakroborty and my Bachelors degree from BESU, Shibpur (present IIEST, Shibpur).

(New) Positions available: I am looking for PhD and PostDoc candidates with strong academic background intererested to work on exciting real-world intelligent transportation systems problems related to machine learning, computer vision, and reinforcement learning. Candidates with only Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering having an excellent academic record can also apply for PhD degree.

Contact: pranames@iitk.ac.in; pranameshbesu@gmail.com

Office Address: Room No. 805, Engineering Science Building -1 (Aerosol Building), IIT Kanpur

Recent News

May 2025: Our recent paper on reinforcement learning based vehicle control at signalised intersections is now available on arXiv.
May 2025: Our recent paper on highlighting the data collection and annotation of the driver gaze dataset, authored by PhD student Mr. Pavan Kumar Sharma and Prof. Pranamesh Chakraborty, has been published in the Behaviour Research Methods journal.
April 2025: The lecture notes and slides of the course, Machine Learning and Data Analytics for Civil Engineering Applications, taught by Prof. Pranamesh Chakraborty at IIT Kanpur, is now freely available at here.
March 2025: Our research lab has now set up a high-fidelity car driving simulator in collaboration with faculty members from Civil Engineering, Cognitive Science, and the Design department of IIT Kanpur.
February 2025: Our PhD student, Tanu Singh, completed her 3-month internship in the CSE Department of New York University, USA, as a part of the collaborative research project with Prof. Chinmay Hedge.
January 2025: One paper from our research group, authored by Shiva Singh, Pavan Kumar Sharma, and Pranamesh Chakraborty, accepted in TRB Annual Meeting 2025 to be held in January 2025 in Washington D.C., USA.
December 2024: Three papers from our research group accepted in TMPDC 2024 to be held in December 2024 in IIT Bombay. The lead authors of the papers are Pavan Kumar Sharma, Ankita Sharma, and Chirag Jaiswal
September 2024: Prof. Pranamesh Chakraborty was invited as one of the distinguished speakers in the one-day workshop on “Applications of AI & Data Science in Transportation Engineering” at IIT Patna.
August 2024: Our Research Associate, Sanjita Prajapati, has joined her PhD program at Iowa State University, USA.
August 2024: Three M. Tech students from our research group, Aditya Mishra, Shiva Singh, and Shambhu Singh, successfully defended their M. Tech thesis.
June 2024: Our research group successfully organized a challenge track on bike helmet violation detection in AI City challenge held in CVPR, 2024 in Seattle, USA.
March 2024: Prof. Pranamesh Chakraborty and Prof. Chinmay Hegde have been awarded the NYU Tandon-IIT Kanpur Joint Research Funding Grant. NDTV news article covering this news is available here.
February 2024: Review paper on driver gaze estimation and appliation accepted in the journal Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (I.F. 7.5).
May 2023: Paper on <a href=”https://www.mdpi.com/2673-7590/3/2/41” target=”_blank”vision based vehicle movement classification</a> accepted in the journal Future Transportation.
March 2023: Tanu Singh, PhD student in our research group, has been selected for the prestigious PMRF fellowship.
February 2023: One paper accepted in the 8th International Conference on Models and Technologies for Intelligent Transportation Systems (MT-ITS 2023) to be held in Nice, France.
November 2022: Our research group is organizing a track on bike helmet violation detection in AI City challenge to be held in CVPR, 2023 in Vancouver, Canada.
October 2022: PhD students Tanu Singh and Pankaj Kumar and M. Tech students Aditya Mishra, Ayush, Miska Singh, and Shiva Singh joins our research group.
October 2022: Research Associate Sanjita Prajapati joins our research group.
August 2022: Paper on “Probe data based arterial signal performance” published in Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems.
May 2022: Paper on “Influence of Type I diabetes on driver stopping behavior” published in Accident Analysis & Prevention Journal.