IIT Madras-BTCM
IIT Madras-BTCM

Building Technology, Construction Materials & Management (BTCM) Group

Department of Civil Engineering

Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai-600036, Tamil Nadu, India

Radhakrishna G Pillai Main

Dr. Aritra Pal

 
Room No: 223, Building Science Block, Department of Civil Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Chennai - TN 600036, India
aritrapal@civil.iitm.ac.in 91-44-2257 4333
Dr. Aritra Pal  is an assistant professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras. He holds a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, specializing in Construction Automation, from National Taiwan University, where he was honored with the Dean’s Award for exceptional academic achievement. Before joining IIT Madras, Dr. Pal worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Cambridge and National Taiwan University. His research focuses on harnessing advanced technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), digital twin construction, and building information management to address complex challenges in construction engineering. Through his work, he strives to enhance the efficiency of construction projects and promote sustainability in the built environment. Dr. Pal also brings valuable industry experience, having managed large-scale construction projects across India and the Middle East. In addition, he actively contributes to his field by publishing his research in prestigious journals and conferences and serving as a reviewer for renowned publications. 

Earned Degrees

PhD, 2023
National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan,


M.Tech, 2015
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi,


BTech, 2011
West Bengal University of Technology, Kolkata, India,


Awards and Honours

Dean's Award, This award recognizes outstanding scholastic achievement among the class graduating in 2022-2023, 2023

4th prize in 1st IITM - IAARC Joint Hackathon, In this hackathon, we developed and trained a machine learning model for concrete strength prediction, 2023

Taiwan NSTC Travel Grant, Taiwan National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) awarded this grant to attend the ASCE International Conference on Computing in Civil EngineeringCorvallis, Oregon, USA, 2023

2nd prize in 4th ASCE-VIMS Datathon 2023, In this datathon competition, we trained an object detection model on public datasets for construction equipment and worker identification in construction videos, 2023

NTU – BFT Scholar Mobility Grant 2022, This grant was awarded by National Taiwan University and Bureau français de Taipei (BFT) to recognize the outstanding performance and effort in facilitating the international research connection between NTU and France, 2022

2nd prize in ASCE-VIMS/ IAARC Datathon 2022, I led a team of five students in this datathon competition. We labeled around 1200 images and trained an image segmentation deep learning model for construction waste classification, 2022

Taiwan MOST Travel Grant, Taiwan Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) awarded this grant to attend the 2022 CI & CRC joint conference held in Arlington, Virginia, USA, 2022

Outstanding Reviewer, I was selected as one of the 30 outstanding & emergency reviewers out of all 181 for ISARC 2021, 2021

Best Paper Award, The paper titled 'Semantic Segmentation of Superpixels for Vision-based Automated Construction Progress Reporting' received the best paper award at The 25th Symposium on Construction Engineering and Management held in July 2021Taipei, Taiwan, 2021

Taiwan Scholarship, This scholarship was awarded by the Ministry of Education, Taiwan (ROC) for pursuing a four-year doctoral degree in Taiwan. The scholarship is designed to encourage outstanding students to pursue academic degrees in Taiwan, 2019

RICS Excellence Award, I received this award from the RICS School of Built Environment in recognition of outstanding teaching, 2018

Build India Scholarship, This scholarship was awarded by Larsen & Toubro group, India, for pursuing a two-year full-time master's degree at the Indian Institute of Technology, 2013

Research Areas

 Building Information Management
 Digital Twin Construction
 AI/ML Applications in Construction Management
 Computer Vision (CV) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) in Construction
 Data-Driven Construction
 Construction Automation and Robotics

Professional Experiences

 2025 – Present : Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India
 2024 – 2025 : Postdoctoral Research Associate , University of Cambridge, UK
 2023 – 2024 : Postdoctoral Research Fellow, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
 2022 – : Visiting Research Scholar, INSA Strasbourg, France
 2017 – 2019 : Assistant Professor, RICS School of Built Environment, Amity University, India
 2015 – 2017 : Assistant Manager (Project Controls), Larsen and Toubro Construction, Oman
 2011 – 2013 : Senior Engineer (Planning), Larsen and Toubro Construction, India
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