PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Review works

• Special Invitee by BARC, Bombay for the discussion Meeting for review of the research projects (Uncertainty Analysis of Engineering & Environmental Systems) pertaining to the CRP at I.I.Sc., Bangalore under TSC-4, NRFCC, BRNS on March 15, 2014 held at AERB complex (Niyamak Bhavan-B), Anushaktingar, Mumbai-94.

1. Board of Studies (BOS) Member for department of Civil Engineering, JNTUA College of Engineering (Autonomous) Ananthapuramu for 2019-2021

2. Board of Studies (BOS) Member for department of Civil Engineering, Basaveshwar Engineering College (Autonomous), Bagalkot for 2020-2021

3. Board of Studies (BOS) Member for department of Civil Engineering, Rayalaseema University College of Engineering, Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh for 2020-2022

4. Ph.D. thesis examiner for Ph.D. thesis entitled Stabilization of Fiber Reinforced Expansive Soil Treated with Alkali Activated Binder: Experimental Investigation and Prediction Modeling' submitted by Mr. Syed Mazhar or the award of the Ph.D. Degree of BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus.

5. Ph.D. thesis examiner for Ph.D. thesis entitled 'Reclamation of Concrete Bi-material Interface Effectin Recycled Materials' submitted by Arigela Surendranath (ID:2016RCE9536) or the award of the Ph.D. Degree of Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur – 302017 (Rajasthan) India.

6. Ph.D. thesis examiner for thesis titled "Probabilistic Design and Optimization of Foundations on Cohesionless Soil using Surrogate Models" submitted by Mr. Nazeeh K M K M for the award of the Ph.D. Degree of the Indian Institute of Science Bangalore. (Submission ID: IISc-2022-0130)

7. Ph.D. thesis examiner for thesis titled " Bioremediation of mechanically and biologically treated waste of Bangalore city: An experimental and numerical study " submitted by Mr. Sughosh P for the award of the Ph.D. Degree of the Indian Institute of Science Bangalore.

8. Ph.D thesis examiner for the thesis titled “Stability Analysis of Non-homogeneous Soil Slopes under Rainfall Conditions” submitted by Mr. Dooradarshi Chatterjee (136104008) for the award of the Ph.D. Degree of the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India.

9. Ph.D. thesis examiner for thesis titled “Suitability of Red Mud as a Subgrade Material with Combination of Different Industry Waste Materials” submitted by Mr. K. Sarath Chandra (15PH0109) for the award of the Ph.D. Degree of JNTU College of Engineering, Anantapur, Ananthapuramu

10. Ph.D thesis of K V Surya Narayana (2010). "Geo-Hydrological investigations and impact of rain water harvesting structures on ground water potential in Anantapur District” Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (JNTU), Anantapur, A.P. (24/12/2010)

Conferences attended and presentations delivered

1. Eighth Indian Young Geotechnical Engineers Conference 2021, IIT Madras, Chennai, India, September 17-18, 2021

2. Symposium on GEOPRACTICES – 2021, 27th Nov 2021, Saturday 9:45 AM - 1:00 PM, conducted by Indian Geotechnical Society, Hyderabad Chapter.

3. Indian Geotechnical Conference 2021, Geotechnics for Infrastructure Development and Innovative Applications (GEO-INDIA), NIT Trichy, Tamilnadu, India, December 16-18, 2021.

4. Organizing Secretary for Geotechnical Knowledge Network on Ingenious Technologies “GeoKNIT 2022” conducted by The Indian Geotechnical Society -Indian Institute of Technology Student Chapter (IGS-IITH Student Chapter), 9th  April 2022, from 11:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.

5. Workshop on GEOPRACTICES – 2019 (under TEQIP-III Twinning Program), held on 23 November 2019, organized by JNTUH College of Engineering, Hyderabad, TS & Shri Mata Vaishno Devi university, Jammu

6. National Conference on Geotechnical Applications Geoapps-2018 (Under TEQIP-III) held on 24 Mar 2018, at JNTU Hyderabad

7. Fifth International Conference on Forensic Geotechnical Engineering, 5ICFGE 2016 held on Dec 08 - 10, 2016 in IISc Bangalore

8. Indo-US Bilateral Workshop, Establishing Linkages Between Geoenvironmental Practices and Sustainability, Sheraton Grand, Downtown Chicago on August 18.

9. Geo-Chicago 2016, Chicago, USA, August 14-18, 2016 organized by Geo-Institute (GI) of American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), USA

10. 50th Indian Geotechnical Conference, 17-19 December, 2015, Pune, India.

11. Symposium on Ground Improvement & Geosynthetics ground. Organized by INDIAN GEOTECHNICAL SOCIETY, HYDERABAD CHAPTER, Hosted by Jawaharlal Nehru technological University College of engineering Hyderabad, 29 August 2015.

12. Indian Geotechnical Conference (IGC), December 18-20, 2014, JNTU Kakinada, Andhra Pradesh, India.

13. Reliability analysis of Nanoiron Particle Transport through porous media. Presentation delivered on 27th June 2014 at Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UIUC), Illinois, United States.

14. The 18th Great Lakes Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Conference (GLGGC) & The 2014 Chicago Geotechnical Lecture Series on Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering, held on May 2, 2014 at University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), Organized by: Geo-Institute Chapter of the ASCE Illinois Section.

15. Strain Localization Effect on System Reliability Based Design of Bridge Abutments under Seismic Loading, Indian Geotechnical Conference (IGC), December 15-17, 2011, Kochi, Kerala, India.

16. Linear and Quadratic Functions to Evaluate Seismic Active Earth Pressure Considering Strain Localization Effect,  3rd Young Geotechnical Engineers Conference (3IYGEC), March 25 - 26, 2011, Central Road Research Institute (CRRI), New Delhi, India

17. First US-India Workshop on “Global Geoenvironmental Engineering Challenges”, November 7,  New Delhi, India

18. 6th International Congress on Environmental Geotechnics (6ICEG) 2010, November 8 - 12, 2010, New Delhi, India

19. Presentation on “Reliability based design optimization of bridge abutments using pseudo-dynamic method” in 12th IACMAG conference, Goa, Oct (1 – 6).

20. Target reliability based design optimization of cantilever retaining walls in 13th ARC, Kolkata.

21. The influence of strain localization and phase on the estimation of earth pressures for high seismic loading, Second Annual Student Symposium, 2009 conducted by Dept of Civil Engg, IISc Bangalore.

22. Pseudo-Static and Pseudo-Dynamic Stability Analysis of Reinforced Earth Structures: A Comparative Study, First Annual Student Symposium, 2008 conducted by Dept of Civil Engg. IISc Bangalore.

23. National conference on Case studies in Geotechnical Engineering, (GEOPRACTICE 2005), IISc Bangalore.

24. International Workshop on Risk assessment in Site Characterization and Geotechnical Design, (GEORISK 2004), IISc Bangalore. 

Reviewer for the following journals 

• Acta Geotechnica published by Springer, Germany 

• Arabian Journal of Geosciences, Saudi Society for Geosciences published by Springer 

• ASCE conferences (GeoCongress, GeoFrontiers, IFCEE, GeoFrontiers, Geochicago) 

• Canadian Geotechnical Journal 

• Cogent Engineering, Taylor and Francis Journal 

• Computer and Geotechnics 

• Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Vibration 

• Engineering Geology, published by Elsevier 

• Environmental Engineering and Management Journal 

• Geomechanics and Geoengineering: An International Journal 

• Georisk: Assessment and Management of Risk for Engineered Systems and Geohazards. 

• Geosynthetics International 

• Geotechnical and Geological Engineering 

• Geotechnique Letters 

• Ground Improvement 

• Indian Geotechnical Journal, published by Indian Geotechnical society. 

• Innovative Infrastructure Solutions 

• International Journal of Geomate 

• International Journal of Geomechanics, ASCE 

• International Journal of Geosynthetics and Ground Engineering 

• International Journal of Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering (IJGEE) published by IGI Global. 

• International Journal of Geotechnical Engineering published by J Ross. 

• International Journal of Physical Sciences 

• International Journal of Reliability and Safety, published by Inderscience. 

• Journal of earth system science, published by Indian Academy of sciences Bangalore. 

• Journal of Hazardous, Toxic, and Radioactive Waste published by ASCE 

• Journal of Low Land Technology 

• Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering, ASCE 

• Mathematical problems for engineers 

• SADHANA - Academy Proceedings in Engineering Sciences - published by the Indian Academy of Sciences Bangalore. 

• Soils and Foundations, Japanese Geotechnical Society 

• Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, Springer 

• Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering