Welcome

 

Hi, I am Anu Raj Pradhan (aka Anu or Anuraj) from Kathmandu, Nepal.   At present, I am a Ph.D. student at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU).   I am affiliated with Civil Engineering Department at CMU. I did my high school from St. Xavier's High School.  

Research Interests

I am interested in leveraging Artificial Intelligence (AI) and statistical techniques to solve complex engineering problems.  Prior coming to CMU, I primarily worked on Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and Parallel Computing.  I strongly believe that complex engineering problems can only be solved with sound mathematical/statistical techniques coupled with clever use of computing.

Peer-Reviewed Journal Publications

1. Pradhan, A. R., Laefer, D. L., and Rasdorf, W. M. (2007) "Infrastructure Management Information System for Disasters," Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering, ASCE.

2. Laefer, D. L. and Pradhan, A. R. (2006). "Evacuation Route Selection Based on Tree-based Hazards Using Lidar and GIS," Journal of Transportation Engineering, ASCE.

3. Laefer, D.F., Koss, A. and Pradhan, A. R. (2006). "The Need for Baseline Data Characteristics for GIS-Based Disaster Management System," Journal of Urban Planning and Development, ASCE

4. Akinci, B., Karimi, H., Pradhan, A. R., Cheng-Chien, W., Fichtl, G. (2007). “CAD and GIS Interoperability through Semantic Web Services”, ITCon (Accepted).

5. Pradhan, A. R., Ergen, E. and Akinci, B. (2007).” Locating Building Components within Facility using Radio Frequency Identification Technology”, Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering (Submitted)

6. Pradhan, A. R.  and G. (Kumar) Mahinthakumar "Finding all pairs shortest path for a complex transportation network using parallel Floyd and parallel Dijkstra Algorithms", [tentative:  Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing/Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering]  (In Preparation) [Master’s Course Project]

7. Pradhan, A. R. and Rasdorf, W. M. “Snow Vulnerability Analysis using GIS and LiDAR”, [tentative:  Journal of Transportation Engineering/Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering]  (In Preparation)

Peer-Reviewed Conference Publications

1.  Kiziltas, S., Pradhan, A. R., Akinci, B. (2006). “Developing Model-Based Project Histories by Leveraging Multisensor Data Fusion”, Joint International Conference on Computing and Decision Making in Civil and Building Engineering, ICCCBE XI, June 14-16, 2006, Montreal, Canada..

2. Laefer, D. L. and Pradhan, A. R. (2006). “GIS-Based Disaster Management Systems: Cogent Data Framework,” TRB 85th Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers CD-ROM, Paper #06-2076.

3. Akinci, B., Kiziltas, S., Pradhan, A. R. (2006). “Capturing and Representing Construction Project Histories for Estimating and Defect Detection”,  13th Intelligent Computing in Engineering and Architecture (EG-ICE) Workshop, 25-30 June 2006,  Ascona, Switzerland. Published in Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Springer.

4. Pradhan, A. R. and Akinci, B. (2007).  “A Planning Based Approach for Fusing Data from Multiple Sources For Productivity Monitoring”, Construction Research Congress (Accepted).

5.  Kiziltas, S., Pradhan, A. R., Akinci, B. (2007). ”Fusing Data from Multiple Sources to Support Project Management Tasks”, ICCE Conference, Pittsburgh, PA

 

6. Akinci, B., Pradhan, A.R., Kiziltas, S. (2008).  “Analyses of Data Sources for Multi-source Data Fusion to Support Project Management Tasks”, Proceedings of 2008 NSF Engineering Research and Innovation Conference, Knoxville, Tennessee

 

Affiliations

1. American Association for Artificial Intelligence

2. Member of International High IQ Society

3. Member of National Space Society

4.  Member of Phi Kappa Phi Society