Venu M. Garikapati, PhD

Venu Garikapati is a project leader in the Systems Analysis & Integration section of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). At NREL, he oversees the day-to-day operations of the Transportation Secure Data Center and conducts research on travel, the energy-related impacts of emerging transportation technologies, such as connected and automated vehicles, and transportation networking companies. An expert in the development of new analytical and computational modeling systems for forecasting activity travel demand under a wide variety of socioeconomic, demographic, technological, and policy scenarios, his research focuses on understanding the impacts of disruptive technologies on travel behavior and the role that big data analytics can play in enhancing the performance of transportation systems. Prior to joining NREL, he served as an assistant research professor at Arizona State University (ASU) and a postdoctoral fellow at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He received his Ph.D. in civil engineering, with a specialization in transportation systems, from ASU, and his M.S. in civil engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.