Yash Ranjan

Yash Ranjan

he/him

Creating mental models of the world one paper at a time.

Yash Ranjan

I am a third year PhD student in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Florida, supervised by Prof. Sanjay Ranka and Prof. Anand Rangarajan. My research interest lies in applying machine learning techniques to build trustworthy and explainable world simulators. I apply these techniques in the fields of scientific simulation and transportation. I finished my undergraduate from BITS Pilani, majoring in Computer Science, where I was supervised by Prof. Subhrakanta Panda.

Publications

  • PhaseShift: Topology-Aware Data Harmonization and Model Consolidation Across Signalized Intersections Yash Ranjan, Artur Kumik, Rahul Sengupta, Anand Rangarajan, Sanjay Ranka arXiv preprint, 2026 [Link] [Code]
  • A Generative Model for Closed-Loop Microsimulation of Signalized Intersections Yash Ranjan, Rahul Sengupta, Anand Rangarajan, Sanjay Ranka arXiv preprint, 2026 [Link]
  • Enactor: From Traffic Simulators to Surrogate World Models Yash Ranjan, Rahul Sengupta, Anand Rangarajan, Sanjay Ranka 12th International Conference on Vehicle Technology and Intelligent Transport Systems (VEHITS), 2026 [Link] [Code]
  • BigSUMO: A Scalable Framework for Big Data Traffic Analytics and Parallel Simulation Rahul Sengupta, Nooshin Yousefzadeh, Manav Sanghvi, Yash Ranjan, Anand Rangarajan, Sanjay Ranka, Yashaswi Karnati, Jeremy Dilmore, Tushar Patel, Ryan Casburn International Conference on Modeling, Simulation and Intelligent Systems, 2025 [Link]
  • IntTrajSim: Trajectory Prediction for Simulating Multi-Vehicle Driving at Signalized Intersections Yash Ranjan, Rahul Sengupta, Anand Rangarajan, Sanjay Ranka IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC), 2025 [Link]
  • Video-Based Machine Learning Approaches for Quantifying Pedestrian Safety in Traffic Intersections J. Fleischer, Yash Ranjan, T. Banerjee, M. T. Li, Anand Rangarajan, Sanjay Ranka International Conference on SmartRail, Traffic and Transportation Engineering, 2025 [Link]
  • Evaluating Generative Vehicle Trajectory Models for Traffic Intersection Dynamics Yash Ranjan, Rahul Sengupta, Anand Rangarajan, Sanjay Ranka Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD), 2025 [Link]
  • A Data-Driven Approach for Probabilistic Traffic Prediction and Simulation at Signalized Intersections A. Wu, Yash Ranjan, Rahul Sengupta, Anand Rangarajan, Sanjay Ranka IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV), 2024 [Link]

For the full list, see my Google Scholar profile.