Coordination

1.   Coordinator for Short Term Course on “Wave Action on Coastal and Offshore Offshore Structures”, Dec.9-23, 1985 under Continuing Education Programme for Practicing Engineers.

2.   Co-coordinator for “National Workshop on Wave Studies and Applications” Feb.3-5, 1986.

3.   Coordinator for Short-term course on “Coastal Engineering” Dec.11-22, 1989 under Continuing Education Programme.

4.   Coordinator for Short term course on “Coastal and Ocean Engineering”, Nov.4-9, 1991 under Continuing Education Programme.

5.   Coordinator for Coastal Engineering for “Inter Institutional Course and Workshop on Dredging, Port, Coastal Engg. And Coastal Zone Management”, Indo-Dutch Programme, Jan.23-31, 1995, IIT, Madras.

6.   Coordinator for Short Term Course on “Course on Coastal Structures”, April 13-24, 1998, under Continuing Education Programme for Metallurgical & Engineering Consultants (India) Ltd, Ranchi.

7.   Coordinator for Inter-Institutional Course on ‘Coastal Engineering’ and Workshop on ‘Breakwaters’, in collaboration with Technical Univ. Delft, The Netherlands, 6-10 March 2000, IIT Madras

8.   Coordinator a short course on ‘Coastal & ocean engineering’ for Students of University of Wuppertal, Germany Sep 4 –6, 2002.

9.   Coordinator a short course on ‘Coastal and Offshore engineering’ in University of Wuppertal, Germany, Sep 4-6, 2002.

10. Coordinator, Short term course on “Coastal Engineering” conducted by International Ocean Institute, Dept. of Ocean Engineering, IIT Madras, 31Jan-2 Feb 2004.

11. Joint Corodinator, , GLOBAL INITIATIVE OF ACADEMIC NETWORKS (GIAN) Shore course on “Introduction to Marine Renewable Energy”, with Univ of Ediburg, UK, 15-20 February 2016, IIT Madras

12. Joint Corodinator, GLOBAL INITIATIVE OF ACADEMIC NETWORKS (GIAN) Shore course on “Extreme Waves in Ocean Engineering”, with Univ of Reggio, Italy, 21 March to 1 April 2016, IIT Madras.

Reviewer / Examiner 

1.   External Reviewer for the strategic project titled “Hydraulics and Mixing in exchange flows” for Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada (Aug 2003).

2.   Examiner for a number of M.Tech Theses submitted to National Institute of Technology, Karnataka of calicut and Suarthkal  & University of Pondicherry , INDIA.

3.   Examiner for the Ph.D thesis entitled “A Numerical Study of Fully Nonlinear Two-Dimensional free-Surface Flows and Wave-Body Interactions” Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur.

4.   External Reviewer for the strategic project titled “Hydraulics and Mixing in exchange flows” for Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada (Aug 2003)

5.   Examiner for the Ph.D thesis entitled “Analytical and Physical Model Study on the Reflection Behaviour of Slotted Quay Wall with Wave Chamber” Anna University, INDIA (Oct 2006).

6.   Examiner for the Ph.D thesis entitled “Applicability of Artificial Neural Networks For Investigating Short-Term Developments Of Near-shore Morphology” University of Cottbus, Germany (Oct 2005)

7.   Reviewer of papers submitted to American Society of the Civil Engineering Jl and Jl. Of Hydraulic Research of IAHR

8.   Examiner for the Ph.D thesis entitled “Characterising Hydrological Responses of Coastal Humid Tropical Wetland” National Institute of Technology Karnataka  2008

9.       Examiner for the Ph.D thesis entitled “Some Experimental StudiesOn Influence of Surface Waves on Mixing Characteristics of a Horizontal Buoyant Jet” Dept. of Civil Engg, Andhra University, 2008 and thesis from several other Institutes/ universities

10.    Evaluated a Ph. D thesis titled “Peak Load Estimation due to Debris Flow During Tsunami and its Mitigation using Coastal Vegetation” of Monash University, Australia and IIT Bombay.

Organisation of conferences/workshops

1.   Organising Secretary (Publications), International Conference in Ocean Engineering, 17-20 Dec’96, IIT Madras.

2.   Organising Secretary, Symposium on “Foundation Engineering in Soft Marine Clays” 1 Dec ’03, in IIT Madras

3.   Organising Secretary, Workshop on “Coastal Protection Measures”, conducted by International Ocean Institute, Dept. of Ocean Engineering, IIT Madras, 5 &6 Nov 2004, Kanyakumari

4.   Organising Secretary, workshop on “Coastal Problems & solutions” conducted by International Ocean Institute, Dept. of Ocean Engineering, IIT Madras, 3-4 Feb 2004

5.   Organising Secretary, Workshop on “Tsunami Effects and Mitigation Measures” Dept. Ocean Engg, IIT Madras, 26 Dec 2005

6.   Organising secretary, 15th Congress of the Asian Pacific Division of International Association of Hydraulic Research, 7-10 Aug 2006, IIT Madras.

7.   Organising Secretary, INDO-JAPAN Workshop on “Coastal Problems and Mitigation Measures – including the effects of Tsunami” (16-17 July 2007)

8.   Coordinator,” INDO-GERMAN workshop on research activities of students” organized with Franzius Institute, Hannover and University of Wuppertal, Germany held in IITM Madras on 10th Jan 2008.

9.   Organising Secretary, International conference on Hydro Science and Engineering, ICHE2010, IIT Madras, 2-5 Aug 2010.

10. Organising Secretary, International workshop on “Geosynthetics and modern materials in Coastal protection and related applications” jointly organized with committee on Coastal and Maritime Hydraulics of IAHR, IIT Madras 6-7 Aug 2010.

11. Organising Secretary, 8th PIANC-COPEDEC Conference on Coastal and Port Engineering in Developing Countries to be held in IIT Madras 20-24 Feb 2012

12. Organising Secretary, Second International Workshop on “Geo-synthetics and modern materials and modern materials in coastal protection and related applications” jointly organised with Universidad Anahuac Mayab, Yucatan, Mexico, 4 –5 March 2013 in IIT Madras

13. Organising Secretary, HYDRO 2013 INTERNATIONAL conference, 4-6 Dec 2013 in IIT Madras.

14. Organising Secretary, International workshop on Ocean Wave energy, jointly with NTNU, Norway, 2-3 Dec 2013 in IIT Madras

15. Organising Secretary, Indo-Japan Workshop on River Mouths, Tidal Flats and Lagoons, IIT Madras, Chennai, India, Sep. 15-16, 2014

16. Organising Secretary, 8th International Conference on Asian and Pacific Coasts, (APAC 2015) 7-10 Sept 2015

17. Coordinator Workshop on Numerical Modeling of Free Surface Flows in Coastal and Ocean Engineering (hands on experience) – REEF3D : Open Source CFD

18. Organising Secretary, Indo-Australian Marine Renewable Energy Symposium, 4-5 April 2016, IIT Madras

19. Joint organizing secretary, Second Indo-Australian Marine Renewable Energy Workshop held on 17th February 2018.

20. 4th International Conference in Ocean Engineering (ICOE 2018) held on 18th – 21st February 2018

21. Organising secretary, National Workshop on Coastal Management Information System held on 27th February 2018 in IIT Madras

22. Orgaising Secretary, ‘Hands on training in Coastal management information system’ for Govt Officials at IIT Madras, 19-29 Nov 2018

23. Second National workshop on Coastal Management Information System at IIT Madras on 11th March 2019

24. Organising Secretary, Fifth Intl conf in Ocean Enginnering, ICOE 2019, Mauritius,28 July -1 Aug 2019.

25. Organising Secretary, Virtual INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP on COASTAL INFORMATION SYSTEM-MANAGEMENT AND ENGINEERING 06th May 2021 between (IST) 09:30 hrs to 17:30 hrs.

26. Coordinator, Second Training Program Coastal Management Information system for Min of Water Resources on 24 May 21.

27. Organsier, special session on Coastal Environment and Measurement as part of HYDRO 2021 INTERNATIONAL, SVNIT, Dec 23-25, 2021.

Technical Committees

1.   Member Course Development Group for Regional Operational Centre of Intl. Ocean Institute, IIT Madras. The task is to prepare course module on topics in Coastal Zone Management, 1995.

2.   Steering Committee Member, Invest Port – National Conference on “Partnerships for infrastructure Development Ports”, 8th & 9th April 1996.

3.   Member, International Scientific Honorary Committee, Eighth Congress of the International Maritime Association of Mediterranean, Istanbul Technical University, 2-9 Nov.’97, Istanbul, Turkey.

4.   Member, selection committee for considering the promotion of Senior Scientists of National Institute of Ocean Technology, Dept. of Ocean Development, Govt. Of India, 1998, 2000, 2004 2008.

5.   Advisor to Union Public Service Commission (UPSC), Govt. of India for selection of Scientist, Feb’95.

6.   Advisor to UPSC, Govt. of India for Engineering Services Examination ’97, March’98.

7.   Member, International Standing Committee, Second International Conference on Marine Industry, MARIND’98, 28 Sept to 02 Oct, 1998, Varna, Bulgaria.

8.   Invited by National Institute of Science Communication, New Delhi as panel of experts for the constitution of selection/assessment committees in Oceanography for the period 1998 to 2000.

9.   Member, Steering Committee, Intl. Conf in Ocean Engg, I.I.T. Madras, Dec11-14, 2001

10. Member, Technical Committee, 13th Asia Pacific Division of Intl. Association of Hydraulic research, 6-8 Aug 2002, Singapore.

11. Member, Technical Committee, Meet MARIND, Intl conf to be held in Varna, Bulgaria, Oct 2002.

12. Member, Organising committee, Intl. Conf. On Ship & Ocean Technology, SHOT 200216-17 Dec 2002, IIT Kharagpur, India

13. Advisor, 2nd APCOS Conf on Offshore Systems, April 2003 to be held in Thailand

14. Non-Official Expert member of the Coastal Protection & Development Advisory Committee (CPDAC), Govt. of India from June 2004 to Dec 2009.

15. Member of Expert Committee from June 2004 to review the Coastal Regulation Zone

16. Notification of 1991, Govt. of India.

17. Member of the expert committee for recruitment of scientists for the research labs of Defense Research & development organization (DRDO), and Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Govt. of India.

18. Member, Expert committee to advice the Kerala State Council for Science, Technology and environment on coastal protection

19. Member, Technical Advisory Committee of Chilika development authority, Govt. of India

20. Member, Executive committee of Institute for Ocean Management, Anna University, Chennai

21. Session chairman for Ocean Engineering Symposium-Wave Mechanics & Wave effects, 26th Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering, OMAE2007, 10-15 June 2007, Sandiago-U.S.

22. Member, Research council of Centre for earth science studies (CESS), Kerala State Council for Science, Technology & Environment from 27th April 2007 for a period of three years.

23. Expert member, Committee for Master plan on Coastal protection works, public works department, Govt. of Tamil Nadu, INDIA since 27.7.07

24. Member of the panel of experts for National Institute of Science Communication and Information resources, Council for Scientific & Industrial research, Govt.of India for the period 2007-09.

25. Expert member of the National Board of Accreditation (NBA) of All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) for National Institute of Technology Karnataka (March 2008)

26. Advisor, Engineering Services Examinations, 2007 conducted during March 2008 by Union Public Service Commission (UPSC), Govt. of India

27. Member, Intl. Scientific committee of 3rd Intl. Conf. On Estuaries and Coasts, Sep 14-16, 2009, Tohoku University, Sendai, JAPAN

28. Member of selection committee for recruitment/promotion of faculty in Dept. of Ocean Engg at I.I.T. Kharagpur (2006, 2008)

29. Member, Technical committee for “High-level International Forum on Water Resources and Hydropower”, Beijing, China, 17-18 Oct 2008

30. Chairman & Member of Technical committee, 16th Asia Pacific congress of Intl. Association of Hydraulic Engineering Research, Nanjing, China 20-23 Oct 2008.

31. Member, International Steering Committee of Asian & Pacific Coasts (APAC 2009), Singapore

32. Member, International Scientific Committee of Intl. Conf in Hydrodynamics (ICHd 2010) Beijing 2010

33. Non-Official Expert member of the Coastal Protection & Development Advisory Committee (CPDAC), Govt. of India from June 2010-2013.

34. Member, Scientific committee of Second International Conference on Coastal Zone Engineering and Management, Muscat, (1-3 Nov 2010)

35. Member of Scientific committee for 4th International Perspectives on Water Resources and the Environment (IPWE) 2011 conference, Jan 4 – 6, 2011, Singapore

36. Member –jury for the evaluation of the 2011 DE-PAEPE-WILLIAMS award for young professionals being offered by PIANC, The World Association for water borne transport Infrastructure.

37. Member of the organising committee of International Hydrodynamic Committee of International Society of Offshore and Polar Engineers (ISOPE 2012 in Greece.

38. Member of Executive council of Indian Society of Hydraulics for 2012-14.

39. Expert member on the International Panel of Experts (IPE) for the study entitled “Coastal Adaptation Study” (CAS) for Building & Construction Authority, Singapore from mid 2013 to mid 2016.

40. Member, Technical advisory committee to assist Governing council of CWPRS, Pune in their R&D, 2014.

41. Non-Official Expert member of the Coastal Protection & Development Advisory Committee (CPDAC), Govt. of India from June 2014-2017. (THIRD CONSECUTIVE TERM)

42. Member, Executive council of International Conference on Hydrodynamics, China from Oct 2014

43. Member of the scientific committee of 8th International Conference on Scour and Erosion will take place in Oxford, UK from 12-15 Sep 2016.

44. Member of the scientific committee of Coastal Lab 16, University of Ottowa, Canada, May 10-14, 2016

45. Member, International steering committee, Asian and Pacific Coasts, APAC council 2014 –

46. As Member of the working group, WG 130 of PIANC published ” Anti-sedimentation systems for Marinas and Yacht harbours”, Report n 130-2015, 2015

47. Member, International steering committee, Asian and Pacific Coasts, APAC council from 2017

48. Member, International steering committee, 5th International Conference on Coastal and Ocean Engineering, ICCOE 2018 to be held in Shanghai, China during April 27 to 29, 2018.

49. Memebr of the Intl Sc. comm of the 8th International Conference on Fluid Mechanics, 25-28, 2018, Sendai, Japan

50. Memebr of the Intl Sc. comm of 13th International Conference on Hydroscience & Engineering (ICHE-2018) at the Chongqing Jiaotong University in China, June 18 to 22

51. Memebr of the Intl Sc. comm of 3rd International Conference on Renewable Energies Offshore RENEW2018, 8-10 Oct 2018, Lisbon, Portugal

52. Member of the International Scientific Committee of 7th International Conference on Estuaries and Coasts as a committee member, Shanghai, China during 18 – 21 October 2021.

Training Program

Participant – International Training Programme on Exclusive Economic Zone at Dalhousie University, Canada. Conducted by International Ocean Institute, MALTA

Course modules

•  Completed two course modules titled “BREAKWATERS” and “COASTAL EROSION AND PROTECTION” sponsored by Centre for Continuing Education, I.I.T. Madras

• Lectures on two post graduate degree courses, viz., Wave Hydrodynamics and Coastal Engineering that are open in the NPTEL web site for the benefit of students, researchers, and faculty. For details visit http://www.nptel.iitm.ac.in/courses/114106033/. These lectures are available in the YOUTUBE.