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Satish Ukkusuri is the Hubert and Audrey Kleasen Professor in Civil Engineering at Purdue University's College of Engineering, with a courtesy appointment in the Department of Computer Science. His research focuses on disaster resilience, transportation networks, machine learning, and socio-physical systems. He leads the Urban Mobility Networks & Intelligent Logistics (UMNIL) lab, developing innovative solutions for urban challenges through interdisciplinary approaches.
Key affiliations include the Global Engineering Program and Civil and Construction Engineering department. His work integrates agent-based modeling, graph neural networks, and data-driven methodologies to address issues like post-disaster recovery, electric vehicle adoption, and smart mobility systems. He has pioneered tools such as the Mobilkit Python toolkit for urban resilience analytics using mobility data.
Research interests span transportation engineering, urban planning, and complex systems modeling. His recent publications emphasize machine learning applications in transportation networks, hurricane evacuation dynamics, and resilient infrastructure design. He actively explores interdisciplinary topics like mobility-as-a-resource frameworks and multi-agent reinforcement learning for traffic management.
No formal grants or awards are explicitly listed in the provided texts, though his leadership roles and prolific publication record indicate significant academic contributions. His advising and mentorship activities are not detailed here, but his lab’s work suggests involvement in training researchers across civil engineering and computer science disciplines.
Labs/Teams: Leads the UMNIL lab (https://umnilab.github.io/), focused on advancing urban mobility and intelligent logistics through data science and systems engineering.
