Divyakant Tahlyan
Ph.D. Candidate. Northwestern University.

Northwestern University
Transportation Center
600 Foster Street
Evanston, Illinois 60208
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Hello! I am a PhD Candidate at the Northwestern University’s Transportation Systems Analysis and Planning Program in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. I am currently working at the Transportation Center as a graduate research assistant under the supervision of Prof. Hani Mahmassani.
My research braodly focuses on understanding human-technology-infrastructure-market
interactions through a lens of socio-technical systems analysis framework to enable next generation transportation systems that are sustainable, safe, smart, resilient, and equitable.
My dissertation research addresses the question of the extent to which the COVID-19 pandemic altered the telemobility
landscape in the United States; and
the implications of these potentially changing trends on mobility and sustainability of our cities. Other areas of research that I have explored in the past include understnading travel behavior
and its interaction with social networks
, advanced behavioral modeling, big GPS data
analysis and freight planning, machine learning
applications in transportation
, particularly unsupervised learning and ensemble learning models.