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

Patents

1. Minu Treesa Abraham, Neelima Satyam and Biswajeet Pradhan: Patent No. 2021106606, Australian Innovation Patent (Status: Granted on 10/11/2021)

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