Recognition and Professional  Activities

Honors, Prizes, and Awards:

• DAAD German-Indian STAR for Study visit at TU Hamburg-Harburg, Germany   [2010]

• Alexander von Humboldt Research fellowship  [2006]

• 6th World Congress on Computational Mechanics, Beijing, China, young investigator fellowship [2004]

• 7th US National Congress on Computational Mechanics, Albuquerque, USA, young investigator fellowship  [2003]

• Finalist in Student Paper Competition at ASME-PVP 2001 Conference, Atlanta, GA, USA [2001]

•  Graduate College Travel Awards, The University of Iowa [2001]

•  Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering Travel Awards, The University of Iowa [2000]

•  Research Assistantship, The University of Iowa  [1998-2002]

•  Teaching Assistantship, The University of Iowa[1999-2000]

•  Scholarship for Post Graduate Studies in Engineering, Ministry of Human Resources Development, Government of India, India [1992-1994]

•  Merit Scholarship for Under Graduate Studies, Government of Andhra Pradesh, India [1988-1992]

Professional Service Activities:

• Life Membership of IndACM & Member of ASME, ASCE

• Member of ASME Pressure Vessels and Piping Materials and Fabrication Technical Committee & Computer Technology Committee  [2005-Present]

• Editorial Board Member - Structural Monitoring and Maintenance [2014-Present]

• Editorial Board Member - Civil-Comp Conference Series [2013-Present]

• Research Funding Proposal Reviewer for Czech Science Foundation [2012, 2013, 2014]

• Research Funding Proposal Reviewer for ARDB, India [2014]

• Session developer, chairman, contributing editor and conference papers reviewer for "Fractal Finite Element Method" session at 9th World Congress on Computational Mechanics and 4th Asian Pacific Congress on Computational Mechanics, July 19-23, 2010, Sydney, Australia  [2010]

• Session developer, chairman, contributing editor and conference papers reviewer for "New and Emerging Computational Methods" session at 2007 ASME Pressure Vessels and Piping Conference, San Antonio, Texas, USA [2007]

• Primary Organizer for “Fracture and Durability of Heterogenous Materials” minisymposium at International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences-2005, IIT Madras, India  [2005]

• Primary Organizer for “Fracture and Durability of Heterogenous Materials” minisymposium at 8th US National Congress on Computational Mechanics, Texas, USA &  7th World Congress on Computational Mechanics, Los Angeles, CA, USA  [2005 & 2006]

• Session developer, chairman, contributing editor and conference papers reviewer for “Fracture and Durability of Heterogenous Materials” session at ASME Pressure Vessels and Piping Conference  [2005 & 2006]

• Session developer, chairman, contributing editor and conference papers reviewer for "New and Emerging Computational Methods" session at 2004 ASME Pressure Vessels and Piping Conference, La Jolla, San Diego, California, USA  [2004]

• Session developer, chairman, contributing editor and conference papers reviewer for "New and Emerging Computational Methods" session at 2003 ASME Pressure Vessels and Piping Conference, Ohio, USA  [2003]

• Research Funding Proposal Reviewer for National Science Foundation, USA [2003]

• Research Funding Proposal Reviewer for Naval Research Board, India [2006, 2007]

• Research Funding Proposal Reviewer for Broad of Research in Nuclear Sciences, India [2008]

• Funding Proposal Reviewer for INDO-US SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY FORUM, India [2008]

• Conference papers reviewer for Interquadrennial conference of the International Congress on Fracture, Indian Institute of Science, 3-7 August 2008 [2008]

• Conference papers reviewer for the first African Conference on Computational Mechanics (www.africomp.com), Africomp'09, Sun City, South Africa, 7-11 January 2008 [2008]