Sponsored Research Projects (as PI):
1) 2021-2023: SRG Project titled "Landslide Mitigation Structures: Investigations on geosynthetics-reinforced barriers impacted by rockfall." funded by SERB (~27 lakhs).
2) 2021-2022: Vritika Event titled "Numerical investigation on the behaviour of geosynthetics-reinforced embankment under dynamic impact force of rockfall " funded by Accelerate Vigyan, SERB.
3) 2021-2024: NFS SEED Grant Project titled, "Experimental and Numerical Investigations on Resilience of Geosynthetic-Reinforced Embankments for Mitigation of Rockfall Impacts" funded by IIT Jammu (~30 lakhs).
Sponsored Research Projects (as co-PI):
1) 2022-2025: CRG Project titled "Field-scale experiments on geosynthetic-reinforced hilly roads: Effects of 2-D and 3-D confinement of local material in pavement base layer", funded by SERB (~52 lakhs)
Research Positions for prospective Ph.D Students: Available
Motivated, bright, and sincere candidates with strong academic background in Civil and Geotechnical Engineering, and preferable expertise in Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Geosynthetics, and Numerical and Experimental Geotechnics may email their CV (preferably with list of publications) with a cover letter (1 page). The candidates are also requested to visit the Homepage of IIT Jammu for regular updates on admissions to various programs.