Professional Activities

Administrative and Academic Roles 

• Joint vice chair (2024-till): Engineering Work Department (EWD) in IIT Palakkad

• Laboratory In-charge, IIT Palakkad (2025): Geotechnical Engineering Laboratory and Rock Dynamics Laboratory

• Laboratory In-charge, SVNIT Surat (2021): Geotechnical Engineering Laboratory, Rock Mechanics Laboratory, Geology and Geophysical Laboratory

• Warden (2022): Gajjar Bhavan, SVNIT Surat

Professional Memberships, Recognitions, and Awards 

• Member - International Society for Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering (ISRM)

• Member - International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE)

• Life Member - Indian Geotechnical Society

• Life Member - BANAE

• Life Member of IGS - Delhi Chapter

• Member - The Institution of Engineers (India)

• Affiliate Member - ASCE

• ASCE (Geo - Institute) Technical Committee Member

1. Underground Engineering and Construction TC

2. Rock Mechanics TC

• Coordinator, Youth Researcher’s Forum (YRF-ISRM India)

• Members of Task Committee - SC 10 : Young Geotechnical Engineers Forum

• Nominated Member - International Technical Committee of the TC 206—Observational Methods—for the term 2022-2025 (ISSMGE)

• IGS - HEICO Prize for the best paper on “Rock Mechanics” published in Indian Geotechnical Journal

Expert Talks 

• Delivered Expert Lecture in training programme for WAPCOS on "Analysis, Design, and Construction of Tunnels and Underground Structures" from 6th to 12th January 2020.

• Delivered Expert Lecture in Workshop for IRCON and Indian Railways on “Tunnelling in Himalayas” at IIT Jammu (2017).

• Delivered a talk as lead speaker at the IMPLAST 2022 conference.

• Delivered an expert lecture on “Petroleum-Related Rock Mechanics” in TEQIP III-sponsored Online SHORT-TERM TRAINING PROGRAM on Advances in Geotechnical Engineering (AGE-2020) (19th–23rd Nov, 2020).

• Delivered an expert lecture on “Tunnelling in Himalayan Geology” in the TEQIP III-sponsored two-week online short-term training program on "Assessment of Engineering in Infrastructural Development" from 26/10/2020 to 04/11/2020 at Government Engineering College Jhalawar (Rajasthan).

• Expert lecture on the topic “Rock Socketed Piles and Rock Mechanics for Deep Foundations” in an online technical training program on “Piling Engineering” from 22nd to 23rd July 2022, organized by L&T, CTEA, and SVNIT. 

• Expert lecture on the topic “Foundations on Rock Mass” in an online technical training program on Foundation Engineering from 24th February to 25th February 2023, organized by L&T, CTEA, and SVNIT. 

• Delivered an invited talk on the topic “Energy Geotechnics” at the pre-conference workshop, IGC 2023 Roorkee, 13-17 December 2023, IIT Roorkee, Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India.

• Delivered keynote lecture on the topic “Rock Engineering for GeoEnergy” at International Conference on Civil, Materials, and Environment for Sustainability ICCMES 2024, on 4th and 5th Oct at Jaypee University of Information Technology, Waknaghat, Solan, H.P.

• Delivered an expert lecture on the topic "Rockfall Protection" during the KHRI-PWD one-week training program, which took place from 26th to 30th May 2025 at IIT Palakkad, Kerala.

Professional Training and Courses  

• Successfully completed LARAM 2020 – International course on Landslide Risk Assessment and Mitigation, held at IIT Roorkee 

Professional/Technical Contributions

• Large-Scale Direct Shear Testing of jointed rocks for Anjikhad Rail Link Project (IRCON).
  
  

• Numerical Simulation of Delhi Metro tunnel under blast loads.
  
  

• Contributed to the Development of the Impact Testing Facility at IIT Delhi and the Creep Testing Facility at SVNIT Surat & IIT Palakkad.

• Split Hopkinson Pressure Bar (SHPB) setup installed at IIT Palakkad for dynamic testing of rock and concrete specimens.

• Geology Laboratory established at IIT Palakkad to support experimental geomechanics and rock characterization research