Professional Experience 

1. Lecturer in the Department of Civil Engineering,  SITM Guwahati, Assam; June 2014 - Dec 2014.
2. Guest Faculty in the Energy Engineering Department, &  Department of Architecture, Northeastern Hill University (NEHU), Shillong, Meghalaya; Oct 2021 - July 2023.

Research Experience

• Doctoral Research:  Transportation Systems Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Guwahati, 2015 - 2021 (Supervisors: Prof. C., Mallikarjuna, Dr. Anjan Kumar S.)

Courses Taught

• Highway Engg, Concrete Technology at SITM Guwahati, Assam
• Engg Mechanics, Engg Graphics, at Energy Engineering Department,  Northeastern Hill University, Shillong, Meghalaya.
• Applied Mechanics, Strength of Material, Structural Design, Structural Analysis, Working Drawing, Building Construction, and Building Materials at the Department of Architecture, Northeastern Hill University, Shillong, Meghalaya.

Publications

Journals

1.  Shallam, R. D. K., Bharat Kumar Anna, V.A., Chunchu, M., & Siddagangaiah, A. K. Safety and consistency assessment of a two-lane rural highway passing through mountainous terrain (2022). Journal of transportation engineering, Part A: Systems, 148(12), 04022110; https://ascelibrary.org/doi/abs/10.1061/JTEPBS.0000761 
2.  Shallam, R. D. K., Venthuruthiyil, S. P., Chunchu, M., & Siddagangaiah, A. K. Operating speed modeling for the rural highways passing through hilly terrain (2021). Journal of transportation engineering, Part A: Systems, 147(5), 04021015; https://ascelibrary.org/doi/abs/10.1061/JTEPBS.0000524
3.  Shallam, R. D. K., Venthuruthiyil, S. P., Chunchu, M., & Siddagangaiah, A. K. Empirical analysis of operating speed performance on undivided hilly roads (2019). Journal of Transportation Engineering, Part A: Systems, 145(8), 04019034; https://ascelibrary.org/doi/abs/10.1061/JTEPBS.0000258
4.  Balusu, S. P. K., Iraganaboina, N. C., Shallam, R. D. K., & Chunchu, M. Speed-profile-based road segmentation for accident occurrence modelling for hilly terrains (2017). International journal of injury control and safety promotion, 24(4), 444-451; https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17457300.2016.1178301

Conferences

1.  Bharat Kumar Anna, V.A., Chunchu, M., &  Shallam, R. D. K.,  Exploratory Analysis of Driving Behavior on the Horizontal Curves of Two-lane Undivided Rural Highways Passing Through Mountainous Terrain (2024). Presented at Transportation Research Board (TRB) 2024 Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., USA; DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.27126.98885
2.  Shallam, R.D.K., Venthuruthiyil, S. P., Mallikarjuna, C., & Siddagangaiah, A. K. Impact of the Direction of the Horizontal Curves on the Operating Speed Performance of the Vehicles on Hilly Terrain (2018). Presented at International Symposium of Transport Simulation (ISTS'18) and the International Workshop on Traffic Data Collection and its Standardization (IWTDCS'18), Ehime University, Japan.
3.  Shallam, R.D.K., Mallikarjuna, C., & Siddagangaiah, A. K. Applicability of the existing speed-models for the Indian highways passing through hilly terrain (2017). Presented at National Conference on Civil, Geotech and Transport Research, NERIST, Arunachal Pradesh.
4.  Shallam, R. D. K., & Ahmed, M. A. Operating speed models on horizontal curves for two-lane highways (2016). Transportation Research Procedia, 17, 445-451. In TPMDC 2014, IIT Bombay; https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352146516307013