Bio

Education

Ph.D., Civil Engineering

Infrastructure Materials

Oregon State University

2016 - 2021

B.Tech. and M.Tech. (Dual Degree)

Civil Engineering

Indian Institute of Technology Madras

2011 - 2016

Professional Experience

Assistant Professor (Grade I) Nov 2024 - Present

Assistant Professor (Grade II) Feb 2024 - Nov 2024

Department of Civil Engineering

Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (IITGN), India

Postdoctoral Research Scholar Sep 2021 - Dec 2023

Department of Civil and Construction Engineering

Oregon State University, USA

Instructor Jul 2020 - Dec 2020

Department of Civil and Construction Engineering

Oregon State University, USA

Undergraduate Research Intern Summer 2014

UltraTech Cement Ltd., Chennai, India

Awards & Recognition

Special Merit Award for the Conference Paper presented at 18th NCB International Conference and Exhibit on Cement, Concrete, & Building Materials, New Delhi, India (2024)
Excellence in Research Fellowship, IIT Gandhinagar (2024, 2025)
Best Paper Award - Giatec, Sustainability in Construction Contest (2023)
Graduate Student Travel Award - Oregon State University (2019)
Second Position in Concrete Design Challenge, CEA Fest, IIT Madras (2015)
Innovative Student Project Award (shared with T. Swathi Mayi and B. Maurya), by IC&SR, IIT Madras (2013-2014)

SERVICE & PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP

(2024 - Present) Local Scientific Committee Member, The International Congress on the Chemistry of Cement (ICCC) 2027, New Delhi, India
(2024 - Present) A member of RILEM TC CUC
(2022) External Grant Reviewer – one assignment from the National Science Center (NCN), Poland
(2022) Participating member of ASTM Committees C09
(2020 - 2024) Co-lead of a Task Group in RILEM TC301 ASR
(2019 - Present) Journal Peer Reviewer – Several review assignments from Cement and Concrete Research, Materials and Structures, Cement and Concrete Composites, Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering, Advances in Civil Engineering Materials, Structural Concrete, Transportation Research Record journals, and Journal of Resilience and Sustainability
(2019 - 2021) Associate member of ACI committees 201 – Durability, 221 – Aggregates, and 236 – Material Science
(2017) Editor of the extended abstract proceedings of 3rd Corvallis Workshop on Service Life Prediction of Concrete (July 16-19)
(2015) Organizing member of the Indian Concrete Institute – IIT Madras National Concrete Canoe Competition