Areas of Interest

• Municipal Solid Waste Landfills.

• Computational Geomechanics.

• Unsaturated Soil Mechanics.

• Reliability-Based Designs in Geotechnical & Geoenvironmental Engineering.

• Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Resistant Design of Retaining Structures.

• Rock Mechanics.

• Reliability analysis of pavement Geotechnics.

Education

• Ph.D [Geotechnical Engineering] 2004 – 2009     Indian Institute of Science(IISc), Bangalore, Karnataka, India. (Prof. N. S. Govinda Rao Gold Medal for the Best Ph.D Thesis in the department of Civil Engineering at IISc Bangalore for the year 2008 – 2009. )

• M.Tech. [Geotechnical Engineering]   2002 – 2004      Indian Institute of Technology (IITK), Kanpur, India. 

• B.Tech. [Civil Engineering] 1997 – 2001    J.N. T. U. College of Engineering, Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh, India. (Vellanki Rama Rao Memorial Gold Medal Award for bagging University First Rank in the Civil Engineering Department of all constituent colleges of Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University for the batch 1997-2001 )

Employment History

• Professor [16 Aug 2023 – Present]     Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad (IITH), Andhra Pradesh, India 

• Associate Professor [02 July 2018 – 15 Aug 2023]     Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad (IITH), Andhra Pradesh, India 

• Assistant Professor [03 July 2013 – 01 July 2018]  Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad (IITH), Andhra Pradesh, India 

• Visiting Faculty [01 May 2014 – 30 June 2014] Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UIUC), USA  Department of Civil and Materials Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), USA 

• Assistant Professor (Regular) [24 Aug 2012 – 02 July 2013]  Department of Civil Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD), Hauz Khas, New Delhi. 

• Assistant Professor (on Contract) [11 May 2010 – 23 Aug 2012] Department of Civil Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD), Hauz Khas, New Delhi.  

• Post-Doctoral Fellow [July 2009 - May 2010] Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.

Expertise

• Optimum design of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) Landfills.

• Influence of strain localization and phase change on the seismic design of earth retaining structures.

• Seismic design of bridge abutments, and reinforced earth retaining structures.

• Reliability-based design optimization and its application to conventional retaining walls, sheet pile walls, & Geosynthetic reinforced soil structures.

• Load Resistance Factor Design (LRFD) of bridge abutments under seismic loading using pseudo-static and pseudo-dynamic methods.

• Design of rock slopes against planar and wedge failures.

• Reliability analysis of Pavements.

• Unsaturated soil slope analysis.

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