Research Group

Current Group Members

Sahil Bansal (Assoc. Professor)

Sahil completed his Ph.D. in Structural Engineering from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore in 2015. His primarily expertise is in concrete structures, engineering reliability and structural health monitoring.

Rajpurohit Kiran (PhD Student)

Rajpurohit completed his B.Tech in Civil Engineering from National Institute of Technology (NIT) Rourkela in 2021. He is working on Structural Health Monitoring.

Neeraj (PhD Student)

Neeraj completed his M.Tech in Civil Engineering from National Institute of Technology (NIT) Hamirpur in 2024. He is working on Design using UHPC.

Dr. Shahid Ul Islam (PostDoc)

Shahid completed his PhD in Structural Engineering from the National Institute of Technology (NIT) Srinagar

Numair (MSR Student)

Numair completed his M.Tech in Structural Engineering from Nitte Meenakshi Institute of Technology in 2021.

Past Group Members

PhD and MSR

Dr. Eamon Karim Henikish

Thesis title: Bayesian Model Updating Using Complex Modal Data. 2025

Lecturer, Department of Civil Engineering,
University of Diyala, Iraq

Dr. Mohd. Aman Khalid

Thesis title: Reliability Based Robust Design Optimization of Structures. 2024

Assistant Professor (Research)Department of Civil Engineering, Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology, India

Mr. Shakir Rather

Thesis title: Bayesian Operational Modal Identification of Non-Classically Damped Systems. 2023

Post Docs

2022-24 Dr. Jyotish Kumar Das (Marie Curie/ UKRI Postdoctoral Research Fellow, The University of Sheffield, UK)
2023-24 Dr. Kamal Anand (Post Doc, IISc)
2024 Dr. Rachit (Institute Post Doc, IIT Bombay)
2022-23 Dr. Ayan Das (Guest Lecturer, NIT Mizoram)
2022 Dr. Mohd. Zakir (Post Doc, IIT Delhi)
2022 Dr. Jnyanendra Kumar Prusty

M.Tech. Students

2024-25

Gourab Saha (Design of Highway Bridges by using Ultra High Performance Concrete)
Pradeeep Pandey (Application of Fiber Reinforced Concrete in Rigid Pavements)
Shri Charan Kant Soni (Tensile Behaviour of Ultra High Performance Concrete at Elevated Temperature)
P. G. Thushan Pramoda Samarasinghe (A Study of the Shear Behaviour of Ultra High Performance Concrete Beams)
Saurabh Kailas Kute (Shrinkage Properties of Ultra High Performance Concrete)

2023-24

M Chandu Prakash (Bond characteristics between High-Strength Bars and Ultra high strength Concrete)
Rahul Kumar Meena (A comparative study of miniature & full-scale tests on fresh properties of UHPC)
Manish Choudhary (Design and Analysis of Highway bridges using UHPC)

2022-23

Divya Rawat (Reusable miniature piezo-magnetic sensor for rapid application of electro-mechanical impedance technique)

2021-22

Pawan Kumar (Reliability analysis of concrete elements designed as per Indian Standards)
Amarendra Kumar Jha (Reliability analysis of concrete elements designed as per Indian Standards)

2020-21

Tawseef Iqbal (Reliability analysis of concrete elements designed as per Indian Standards)
Mohd. Shadab (Robust design optimization of tuned mass damper)

2019-20

Gautam Jindal (Optimal sensor placement for dynamic system identification)
Devesh Dewangan (Robust design optimization of truss structure under uncertainties)
Mohd. Danish (Topology optimization of truss structure)

BTech Students (Selected)

2023, Ayush Meena & Saghan Yadav, Improved Design Recommendation for Biaxially Loaded Rectangular RC Columns, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12046-023-02153-9
2024, Sahil Soni, Flexure design using UHPC.

Summer Undergraduate Research Award (SURA)

2021 Sarthak Shrivastava (The Application of Machine Learning to Structural Health Monitoring)

Summer Faculty Research Fellow (SFRF)

2025 Utsav Koshti, Nirma University, Ahmedabad (UHPC Design)
2022 Vanita Garg, Galgotias University, UP (Structural Design Optimization)
2021 A. Haamidh, MSEC, Sivakasi, TN (Flexural Capacity of Beams)
2020 Neeraja Nair, FISAT, Angamaly, KL (Reliability analysis of a three-member truss subjected to horizontal and vertical load at the top node)

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