ProfessorAruna Sivakumar

Aruna Sivakumar is professor of consumer demand modelling and urban systems at the Centre for Transport Engineering and Modelling, Imperial College London. She is director of the Urban Systems Lab, and leads (and has led) several smart city and systems modelling initiatives including, for example, the monitoring and evaluation work package of the EU Sharing Cities project, decentralised modelling of energy demand in the EPSRC-funded IDLES project, accessibility framework for equity analysis in the Wellcome Trust-funded Pathways project. As PI, she has attracted funding worth over £5m from national and international sources such as EPSRC, ESRC, Shell Inc in the UK, and SMRT Singapore. Over a career spanning more than 20 years and research across multiple continents, Aruna has published more than 60 peer reviewed journal papers, made over a 250 conference presentations, and published several book chapters. Her review paper on urban energy systems and journal article on activity-based travel demand modelling have both been cited over 500 times. Her research on activity based microsimulation models of urban resource demands is internationally renowned and she has been invited to present at several seminar series, such as the UCL Energy series, the Choice Modelling Seminar series at Leeds University and the Ezra Seminars at Cornell University. Aruna has been member of several scientific committees, including the Travel Behaviour and Values subcommittee of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) in the US, and the ‘Infrastructure Operation and Traffic Management in Developing Countries’ committee of the World Conference on Transport Research Society (WCTRS). She is an editorial board member of the Sustainable Transport and Liveability and Transportation Letters journals, and a founding stakeholder of the Zephry Foundation for Advancing Travel Analysis Methods.