Characterization of Urban Residential Areas in Pre-colonial Indian Cities
under the guidance of Dr. Tarak Nath Mazumder and Dr. Arup Das
My current research aims at the characterization of urban socio-spatial structure by describing typologies of urban residential areas based on people-specific and place-specific dimensions. We essentially explore the different types of residential areas in a city, an understanding which is of importance to the various housing decision-makers, such as households engaged in housing location search, real estate players catering to differentiated housing market demand, and urban planners creating provisions for demand-responsive public goods such as open spaces and infrastructure.
Prime Minister's Research Fellowship
I started my PhD programme at the Department of Architecture and Regional Planning, IIT Kharagpur under the supervision of Dr. Tarak Nath Mazumder and Dr. Arup Das in September 2021. I am a Joint MCP-PhD candidate under the Prime Minister's Research Fellows (PMRF) Scheme (May 2020 Round Lateral Entry). Further details regarding the fellowship can be found here.
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The details of my progress in meeting the requirements for continuance of the fellowship are as follows:
Coursework
Completed
Decision Modelling
Urban Sociology
Applied Multivariate Statistical Modeling - I
Applied Multivariate Statistical Modeling - II
English for Technical Writing
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Audit: Microeconomics - I
Audit: Macroeconomics - I
Teaching Assistantship (Internal)
Planning Workshop - II
under Dr. Tarak Nath Mazumder and Dr. Arup Das | January - April 2022
This is a 6-credit course for I Year Master of City Planning (MCP) students at the Department of Architecture and Regional Planning, IIT Kharagpur. The role involved general briefing for the planning exercise, several lectures orienting the class for fieldwork/ data collection, analysis and presentation, as well as extensive mentoring of three of the nine teams.
Water Supply and Sanitation
under Dr. Arup Das | January - April 2022
This is a 3-credit course for II Year Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch) students at the Department of Architecture and Regional Planning, IIT Kharagpur. The role involved organising classes, preparing questions for class tests, evaluating assignments and class test submissions, and addressing queries regarding the taught lectures and assignments. I also taught a few lectures.
Real Estate Valuation
under Dr. Tarak Nath Mazumder | August - November 2021
This is a 3-credit course for IV Year Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch) students at the Department of Architecture and Regional Planning, IIT Kharagpur. The role involved organising classes.
Planning Theory and Process
under Dr. Arup Das | August - November 2021
This is a 3-credit course for I Year Master of City Planning (MCP) students at the Department of Architecture and Regional Planning, IIT Kharagpur. The role involves organising classes, preparing questions for class tests, evaluating class test submissions, and addressing queries regarding the taught lectures.
Descriptive Geometry - I
under Dr. Arup Das | December 2020 - January 2021
This was a 4-credit course for I Year Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch) students at the Department of Architecture and Regional Planning, IIT Kharagpur. The role involved organising classes, evaluating assignment submissions, and addressing queries regarding the taught lectures and assignments.
Teaching Assistantship (External)
Short Term Course on Large Scale Buildings
part of the Co-ordinating Team | July 2021
This was a 3-day Short Term Course on Services in Large Scale Buildings, organised by the Department of Architecture and Regional Planning, IIT Kharagpur under the Continuing Education Programme, with Dr. Shankha Pratim Bhattacharya, Dr. Sumana Gupta and Dr. Arup Das as the Principal Coordinators. Apart from general organization of the event, I had particularly assisted Dr. Arup Das in his sessions.