
Leeza Malik,PhD
Department of Civil Engineering
Indian Institute Of Technology (ISM) Dhanbad

Assistant Professor
Department of Civil Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology (ISM) Dhanbad
Jharkhand, India, 826004
Email: leeza@iitism.ac.in
Phone: (+91)-3262235394
Public Profile: Google Scholar
Research Interests
Urban Transport Planning and Modelling
Freight Transportation
Transport Economics
Traffic Safety
Traffic Emissions
Geo-spatial Analysis in Urban Planning
Intelligent Transport Systems
Education
Ph.D. in Transportation Engineering July 2015 – March 2020
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
Dissertation: Externalities of Urban Freight Transport: The Case of Delhi
Supervisors: Prof. Geetam Tiwari (IIT Delhi); Prof. Johan Woxenius (University of Gothenburg, Sweden)
M.Tech. in Transportation Engineering July 2013 – July 2015
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
Dissertation: Urban Freight-Parking Practices: The Cases of Gothenburg (Sweden) and Delhi (India)
Supervisors: Prof. Geetam Tiwari (IIT Delhi); Prof. Johan Woxenius (University of Gothenburg, Sweden);
Prof. Ivan Sanchez Diaz (Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden)
B.E. in Civil Engineering July 2009 – July 2013
Panjab University, Sector-14, Chandigarh
Technical Skills
MS Office; Python; R; Matlab; TransCAD; ArcGIS; PTV Vissim; MxRoads; SPSS; Stata; NLOGIT; AutoCAD
Awards
1. Awarded travel scholarship to present Ph.D. thesis work at Mobilize Fortaleza, Brazil (22-26 June 2019)
2. Awarded travel scholarship to attend and present Ph.D. work in VREF Advanced Studies Institutes on Sustainable Urban Freight Systems (VASI-SUFS) workshop, New York, USA (4-11 August, 2018)
3. Awarded Ministry of Urban Development (MoUD) scholarship to collect traffic data for Ph.D. work (Session 2017-2018)
4. Awarded Department of Science and Technology (DST) travel scholarship to present at Transport Research Board Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., USA, 2018 (7-11 January, 2018)
5. Awarded Volvo Research and Educational Foundations (VREF) scholarship to attend 2017 METRANS International Urban Freight Conference held at Long Beach, California, USA. (17-20 October, 2017)
6. Awarded Ministry of Urban Development (MoUD) scholarship to present work at WCTR conference, Shanghai. (2016)
7. Awarded Volvo Research and Educational Foundations (VREF) scholarship to pursue my M.Tech. dissertation work in Sweden (2014).
8. Selected for Student Exchange Programme to pursue M.Tech. dissertation (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi and University of Gothenburg, Sweden; Session: 2014-15)
9. Awarded Gold Medal for being overall topper of Panjab University in Civil Engineering (2013).