research interests

• Geotechnical instrumentation

• Landslide forecasting

• Real time field monitoring

• Numerical modelling

• Slope stability

• Applications of machine learning in geotechnical engineering

Work Experience

1. Geotechnical Research Engineer
   Norwegian Geotechnical Institute, Oslo, Norway

• Instrumentation and live monitoring

• Geodata

2. Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow (October 2022 – September 2023)

Methods for Model-based Development in Computational Engineering, RWTH Aachen, Germany

• Numerical modeling of debris flows

• Simulation based decision support for disaster risk reduction

3. Junior Research Fellow (May 2019 – December 2019)

Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India

• Regional scale rainfall thresholds for parts of Western Ghats, Kerala, India

• Development of Numerical model of Debris flows considering entrainment for quantitative landslide risk assessment.

• Field monitoring for unstable slopes in Darjeeling Himalayas, India.

4. Assistant Professor (July 2017 - April 2019)

CG Patel Institute of Technology, Gujarat, India

Subject Teacher

• PG: Foundation Engineering, Numerical Techniques in Geotechnical Engineering, Soil Structure Interaction

• UG: Basic Geotechnical Engineering, Railways, Bridges and Tunnels, Water Resources Engineering, Advanced Geotechnical Engineering, Advanced Fluid Mechanics, Design of Hydraulic Structures and Disaster Management.

Project Guidance

• Under graduate project works on sustainable construction materials.

• Post graduate dissertation works on structural analysis and design.

Counselling

• Counselor for 19 B Tech students (from 5th Semester to 8th Semester).

Laboratory Development

• Maintenance and development of Geotechnical Engineering Laboratory

PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

Tools Developed

1. Image processing tool for calibration of rheological parameters of debris flows

2. Debris Flow Simulation 2D (DFS 2D)

3. Tool for automatic detection of land use/ land cover