Professional Career

• Ph.D - Civil Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, U.S.A., 2009

• Master of Technology - Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India, 2002

• Bachelor of Technology - Civil Engineering, Sri Venkateswara University, India, 2000

• IIT Hyderabad, India

         Professor (Sep. 2020- Present)

         Chairperson, Center for Continuing Education (CCE) (Aug. 2020- Nov. 2023)

         Associate Professor (March 2016- Aug.  2020)

         Head, Department of Civil Engineering (Sep. 2015- Nov. 2018)         

         Assistant Professor (Nov. 2009- Feb. 2016)

• Visiting Research Fellow, Center for Offshore Foundation Systems, Univ. of Western Australia (June 2014-July2014) 

• IIT Guwahati, India

       Assistant Professor (Sep. 2009-Nov. 2009)

• Teaching & Research Assistant, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, U.S.A.  (2003- 2009)

• IIT Kanpur, Senior Project Associate (Aug. 2002 -Dec. 2002)

• UG Courses

ME104: Engineering Mechanics

ME 201: Mechanics of Solids (co-taught)

CE3300: Geotechnical Engineering (co-taught)

CE3301: Geotechnical Engineering Lab (co-taught)

CE3312: Introduction to Foundation Engineering

• PG Courses

CE6310: Advanced Soil Mechanics

CE6300: Advanced Foundation Engineering

CE6323: Experimental Soil Mechanics (co-taught)

CE6002: Design Studio

CE6352: Design of Earth Structures

CE6006: Seminar course

• Editorial Board Member of Indian Geotechnical Engineering.

• Honorary Secretary, Indian Geotechnical Society Hyderabad Chapter, 2013-2018

• Er Matur Gopal Rao Twenty Second Endowment Lecture, 2019, Talk titled ‘Design and Construction Aspects of Foundations for Important Barrage Structures’. Organized by The Institution of Engineers (India), Telangana State Centre

• Review Editor on the Editorial Board of Transportation and Transit Systems (specialty section of Frontiers in Built Environment, Frontiers in Environmental Science, and Frontiers in Mechanical Engineering)

• Nominated to represent the Indian Geotechnical Society (IGS) on the International Technical Committee TC-202 on “Transportation Geotechnics” of the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE) for the term 2022-2025.

• UGC nominee on governing body of Government Degree College, Siddipet, Medak, Telangana (a college affiliated to Osmania Univ.)

• Nominated as Chair, Groundwork, Deep Foundations Institute for the term 2022-2023.

• Life Member, Indian Geotechnical Society (IGS)

• Member of Indian Road Congress (IRC)

• Member of the International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE)

• Member of TC-211 on ‘Ground Improvement’ of ISSMGE. 

• Session Co-Chair, Geotechnics for Offshore Wind Farms. International Symposium on Offshore Geotechnics (ISOG), IIT Bhubaneshwar, Bhubaneshwar, 5th December 2019

• Session Chair, Advances in Deep Foundation, Earth Retention Systems, and Ground Improvement. Deep Foundations Institute (DFI), NAC, Hyderabad, 15th-16th November 2019

• GIAN Coordinator, Constitutive Modelling of Unsaturated Soils and its Practical Applications for Critical Infrastructure by Prof V Siva Kumar, Queens University, Univ. of Belfast, IIT Hyderabad, 17th-19th Dec 2018

• Organizing Secretary, National Conference on Geotechnical Applications, GeoApps-2018, JNTU Hyderabad, 24th March 2018

• Session Chair, Ground Improvement-Mixing, 15th Asian Regional Conference (ARC) on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Fukuoka, Japan, 15th-18th November 2015

• Organizing Secretary, National Symposium and Ground Improvement & Geosynthetics (GIGS-2015), JNTU Hyderabad, 29th August 2015

• Organizing Secretary, Symposium on Geotechnical Engineering Practices (GeoPractices-2012), 10th November 2012

• Organizing Secretary, Symposium on Geotechnical Engineering Practices (GeoPractices-2011), 5th November 2011

• Technical advisor to the Irrigation & CAD Department, Government of Telangana, on a prestigious and gigantic project titled 'The Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Project or KLIP', a multi-purpose irrigation project on the Godavari River in Kaleshwaram, Bhupalpally, Telangana, India. The project is envisioned as the world's largest multi-stage lift irrigation project with an estimated annual discharge of more than 280 TMC.

• The Palamuru Ranga Reddy Lift Irrigation Scheme or PRLIS scheme was envisaged to create irrigation potential in upland areas of Nagarkurnool, Mahabubnagar, Vikarabad, Rangareddy and Nalgonda districts for an ayacut of 10.0 lakh acres. I was a technical advisor to the Irrigation & CAD Department, Government of Telangana, on some geotechnical aspects of this prestigious project.

• Geotechnical technical advisor to The Deputy Commissioner, Bidar, on 'Rehabilitation of Karez at Naubad, Bidar'. Karez or Qanat was an ingenious system developed in arid areas for collection, transportation, storage and distribution, with minimum evaporation loss.