Education

• Ph.D. in Geotechnical Engineering, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada – June 2020

Thesis: Assessment of liquefaction characteristics of sand under coupled action of compression and shear waves

• M.S. in Geotechnical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India – July 2015

• B.E. in Civil Engineering, Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Madurai, India – April 2012

Academic and Professional Experience

• Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, Telangana, India (May 2025 – present)

• Assistant Professor, School of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, HP, India (Mar 2022 – May 2025)

• Adjunct Research Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada (Jul 2022 – present)

• Intermediate Geotechnical Engineer, BGC Engineering Inc., Fredericton, NB, Canada (Jun 2020 – Feb 2022)

 Honors and Awards 

• Honorary Adjunct Research Professor, Carleton University, Canada (2022)

• Dr. Cumaraswamy Vipulanandan Best Paper Award, TASME Conference, Toronto, Canada (2021)

• International Doctoral Tuition Bursary, Carleton University, Canada (2020)

• Jagmohan Humar Graduate Student Fellowship, Carleton University, Canada (2019)

• Michael Bozozuk Student Forum Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Research in Applied Earth Sciences, Ottawa Geotechnical Group, Canada (2019)

• Ontario Trillium Scholarship, Government of Ontario, Canada (2015)

Awarded to attract the most highly qualified international students to Ontario for PhD studies.

• Kochar Family Scholarship, Carleton University, Canada (2015)