These past two weeks I visited Lisbon, Portugal for the 12th World Conference on Transport Research. I attended the conference along with my advisor Dr. Michael Meyer and fellow Ph.D student J.P. O’Har. The conference, with over 1500 attendees, was held at the Centro de Congressos de Lisboa along the Tagus River. One of the [...]
Earlier this month I visited Helsinki, Finland for the annual Helsinki Summer School in Transportation. This summer workshop is held at Aalto University School of Science and Technology. It is organized by Dr. Antti Talvitie, a professor at Aalto University, and Dr. Shinya Kikuchi, a professor at Virginia Tech’s National Capital Region campus. This year’s [...]
A fellow student in my department who recently earned a Fulbright Scholarship pointed out to me the back cover of his recently received orientation booklet. There were two color photographs on the back, and one was of me pedaling a rickshaw in Dhaka in 2008. It was taken during my parents’ visit while on the [...]
Last week was the final meeting of the school year for the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) Georgia Tech student chapter. Our chapter recently won Chapter of the Year for the Southern District (composed of 9 states) as well as the Traffic Bowl competition at the SDITE Annual Meeting. It was the first time in many years [...]
A new page for the website is now up. Over the past couple of months I slowly put together a sort of rowing resume, listing out the clubs I have been a part of, coaches I’ve rowed under, and leadership roles I have served. I may add in the results of each race at some [...]
This past week I presented a version of my paper “Levels of Overcrowding in the Bus System of Bangladesh” at the Georgia Tech Research and Innovation Conference. The conference is put on by the Student Government Association and is hosted in the Georgia Tech Hotel. 300 posters were up by graduate students from all departments [...]
Over the winter break I traveled to Israel on the Taglit Birthright Israel trip. My sister and I had been planning for years to take this trip together, and we chose this winter immediately after her graduation to go. We decided to travel with the group from her alma mater, the University of Florida, who [...]
Last Friday, Robert Milton, Chairman and former CEO of Air Canada, paid our air traffic/airport lab a visit. A lifelong aviation enthusiast, Mr. Milton graduated from Georgia Tech in 1983 and worked for nearly a decade in several areas of the airline industry, before finding his way to Air Canada in 1992. He climbed the [...]
My sister and I have been planning for years to try and do Birthright together. After applying earlier this fall, we have been accepted to go this winter! We will be traveling to Israel between December 22 and January 1 through IsraelExperts.
Birthright is a program set up for Jewish young adults between the ages of [...]
This past Wednesday I received the finished version of my band’s fourth demo, the self-titled Floating Block Technology. My guitarist Travis finished recording the vocals and mixing the tracks just this past week, and I now have several copies sitting in my room. This demo was essentially started in 2005 when we recorded a version [...]