RESEARCH Team
Group Lead
Prabin Kumar Ashish
Assistant Professor,
Dept. of Civil Engg., IIT Kanpur, India
Academic Degrees
B.Tech., School of Engineering, CUSAT, Kerala, 2011
M.Tech., AcSIR, CSIR-CRRI, New Delhi, 2014
Ph.D., IIT Bombay, Mumbai, 2021
Experience
Assistant Professor: Dept. of Civil Engg., IIT Kanpur, India (July 2022 onwards)
Post-doctoral Fellow: Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engg., The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong (Jan.2021-June 2022)
Research Associate: Dept. of Civil Engg., IIT Bombay, India (June 2020-Nov.2020)
Mentorship at IIT Bombay
Mr. Subash Chandra from IIT Bombay completed his undergraduate research project work in which he investigated the cracking and fracture behaviour of modified asphalt binder using Double Edge Notch Test (DENT) test.
Current Status: Executive Engineer, Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL), India.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/subhash-chander-06ba1896/?originalSubdomain=in
Mr. J Ajayshankar from PSG College of Technology Coimbatore completed his undergraduate project, which involved examining the physical and chemical interaction between crumb rubber particle and asphalt binder and their corresponding effect on various performance related parameter of rubber-asphalt composite.
Current Status: Lecturer at the TU Delft, Netherlands.
Mr. Harsh Shah from SVNIT Surat completed his summer internship in which he investigated the interaction between nanoclay and a polymer modifier (SBS) in asphalt binder matrix, aiming at improving the phase separation related issue associated with Polymer Modified Binder (PMB).
Current Status: Doctoral candidate at the Ohio State University, USA .
https://sites.google.com/view/harshshah/about-me
Mr. Rahul Jain from IIT Patna completed his summer internship in which he investigated the effect of CNT on thermal cracking properties of asphalt binder.
Current Status: Doctoral candidate at the Purdue University, USA.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rahul-purdue/
Mentorship at IIT Kanpur
Mr. Debabrota Das joined IIT Kanpur (Specialization: Transportation Engineering) as a doctoral (Ph.D.) candidate in July, 2022. He obtained his Masters in Civil Engineering with specialization in transportation engineering from the Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur in 2022. His research work is broadly focused towards rubberized asphalt mixture.
Current status: In progress
Contact: debabrotad22@iitk.ac.in
Mr. Sawarmal Sharma joined IIT Kanpur (Specialization: Transportation Engineering) in July, 2022 as a Masters (M.Tech.) candidate. He obtained his bachelor degree from Jaipur Engineer College and Research Center. His research work is broadly focused towards semi flexible pavement.
Current status: In progress
Contact: sawarmals22@iitk.ac.in
Mr. Shuja At Ali joined IIT Kanpur (Specialization: Transportation Engineering) in July, 2022 as a Masters (M.Tech.) candidate. He completed his bachelor degree from Heritage Institute of Technology Kolkata (HITK), West Bengal. His research work is broadly focused towards understanding the behaviour of asphalt pavement in low temperature regions.
Current status: In progress
Contact: atali22@iitk.ac.in
Mr. Abhinav Kumar Shekhar joined IIT Kanpur (specialization: Transportation Engineering) as a Master (M.Tech) candidate in July, 2022 . He obtained his bachelor's degree from Rajiv Gandhi Proudyogiki Vishwavidyalaya (RGPV) University, Bhopal. His research work is broadly focused towards Warm Mix Asphalt (WMA) for promoting sustainable road construction practices.
Current status: In progress
Contact: abhinavks22@iitk.ac.in