Faculty

Faculty

K. B. V. N. Phanindra

K. B. V. N. Phanindra

Head and Professor
Hydraulics and Water Resources Engineering
Ph. D., New Mexico State University, U.S.A.
+91 40 2301-6306

Research Interests

Groundwater, Agricultural Water Management

Amirtham Rajagopal

Amirtham Rajagopal

Professor
Structural Engineering
Ph. D., Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India
+91 40 2301-6303

Research Interests

Damage Mechanics, Fracture Mechanics

Asif Qureshi

Asif Qureshi

Professor
Environmental Engineering
D. Sc., ETH Zurich, Switzerland
+91 40 2301-6310

Research Interests

Environmental Science, Environmental Health

B. Munwar Basha

B. Munwar Basha

Professor
Geotechnical Engineering
Ph. D., Indian Institute of Science Bengaluru, India
+91 40 2301-6311

Research Interests

Municipal Solid Waste Landfills, Computational Geomechanics, Unsaturated Soil Mechanics, Reliability-Based Designs in Geotechnical & Geoenvironmental Engineering, Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Resistant Design of Retaining Structures

Debraj Bhattacharyya

Debraj Bhattacharyya

Professor
Environmental Engineering
Ph. D., University of New Brunswick, Canada
+91 40 2301-6309

Research Interests

Wastewater Treatment, Solid Waste Management

K. V. L. Subramaniam

K. V. L. Subramaniam

Professor
Structural Engineering
Ph. D., Northwestern University, U.S.A.
+91 40 2301-6304

Research Interests

Rheology Control and 3D Printing

Mahendrakumar Madhavan

Mahendrakumar Madhavan

Professor
Structural Engineering
Ph. D., University of Alabama, U.S.A.
+91 40 2301-6308

Research Interests

Structural Steel, Steel-Concrete Composite Structures, Cold-formed Steel, Structures under Extreme Events (Wind, Seismic and Fire), Metal Additive Manufacturing

S. Suriya Prakash

S. Suriya Prakash

Professor
Structural Engineering
Ph. D., Missouri University of Science and Technology, U.S.A.
+91 40 2301-6307

Research Interests

Behavior of Reinforced Concrete Members

Shashidhar T

Shashidhar T

Professor
Environmental Engineering
Ph. D., Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India
+91 40 2301-6305

Research Interests

Contaminant Transport Modeling, Bioremediation

Sireesh S

Sireesh S

Professor
Geotechnical Engineering
Ph. D., Indian Institute of Science Bengaluru, India
+91 40 2301-6302

Research Interests

Pavement Geotechnics, Geosynthetic Reinforced Structures, Ground Improvement, Sustainable Design of Soil and Pavement Structures, Numerical Modelling

Umashankar B

Umashankar B

Professor
Geotechnical Engineering
Ph. D., Purdue University, U.S.A.
+91 40 2301-6301

Research Interests

Reinforced Earth Structures, Geosynthetics

Anil Agarwal

Anil Agarwal

Associate Professor
Structural Engineering
Ph. D., Purdue University, U.S.A.
+91 40 2301-6312

Research Interests

Structural Fire Engineering, Steel and Steel-Concrete Composite Structures, FRP Composite Structures, Strutural Design under Impact and Blast Conditions, Seismic Design and Earthquake Resistant Structures

Digvijay S. Pawar

Digvijay S. Pawar

Associate Professor
Transportation Engineering
Ph. D., Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India
+91 40 2301-6314

Research Interests

Intelligent Transportation Systems, Traffic Safety and Accident Analysis , Geometric Design, Naturalistic Driving Study and Human Factors, Traffic Operation and Simulation

Pritha Chatterjee

Pritha Chatterjee

Associate Professor
Environmental Engineering
Ph. D., Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India
+91 40 2301-6317

Research Interests

Wastewater Treatment, Energy Recovery

Satish Kumar Regonda

Satish Kumar Regonda

Associate Professor
Hydraulics and Water Resources Engineering
Ph. D., University of Colorado Boulder, U.S.A.
+91 40 2301-6315

Research Interests

Hydrology, Climate Change

Seetha N

Seetha N

Associate Professor
Hydraulics and Water Resources Engineering
Ph. D., Indian Institute of Science Bengaluru, India
+91 40 2301-6316

Research Interests

Flow and Transport in Porous Media

Surendra Nadh Somala

Surendra Nadh Somala

Associate Professor
Structural Engineering
Ph. D., California Institute of Technology, U.S.A.
+91 40 2301-6313

Research Interests

Structural Health Monitoring, AI

Ambika S

Ambika S

Assistant Professor
Environmental Engineering
Ph. D., Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India
+91 40 2301-6319

Research Interests

Membranes and Photoelectrocatalysts, Tertiary Treatments for Emerging Pollutants, E-Waste Resource Recovery, Climate-Agriculture-Resources-Health Nexus, Life Cycle Sustainability Analysis

Biswarup Bhattacharyya

Biswarup Bhattacharyya

Assistant Professor
Structural Engineering
Ph.D., Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France
+91 40 2301-6327

Research Interests

Uncertainty Quantification, Physics-Informed ML

D. V. Sai Praneeth

D. V. Sai Praneeth

Assistant Professor
Environmental Engineering
Ph. D., University of Auckland, New Zealand
+91 40 2301-

Research Interests

Rare earth Elements Extractions and Separation, Solid and Hazardous Waste Management, Low Carbon (Biochar) Building Materials, Environmental Leaching Risk Assessment, Advance Material Characterization

Maheswaran Rathinasamy

Maheswaran Rathinasamy

Assistant Professor
Hydraulics and Water Resources Engineering
Ph. D., Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India
+91 40 2301-6324

Research Interests

Hydrological Modelling, Stochastic Hydrology, Hydrometeorological Forecasting, Extreme Events, Anthropogenic Influences

Meenakshi

Meenakshi

Assistant Professor
Structural Engineering
Ph. D., Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India
+91 40 2301-

Research Interests

Multiscale analytical modelling, Sustainable Cementitious Binders, Concrete Mechanics, Durability of Concrete Structures, Low Carbon Concrete

Prasanna R

Prasanna R

Assistant Professor
Geotechnical Engineering
Ph. D., Carleton University, Canada
+91 40 2301-

Research Interests

Underground Structures, Experimental Soil Mechanics

Ramya Sri Mullapudi

Ramya Sri Mullapudi

Assistant Professor
Transportation Engineering
Ph. D., Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India
+91 40 2301-6320

Research Interests

Sustainable Pavement Materials, Asphalt Mix Performance, Asphalt Chemistry, RAP Mixes, LCCA of Pavements

Roshan Khan

Roshan Khan

Assistant Professor
Geotechnical Engineering
Ph. D., Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India
+91 40 2301-6323

Research Interests

Railway Geotechnics, High-Speed Railways, Computational Geotechnics, Constitutive Modelling, Ground Vibrations

Shruti Upadhyaya

Shruti Upadhyaya

Assistant Professor
Hydraulics and Water Resources Engineering
Ph. D., Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India
+91 40 2301-

Research Interests

Hydrometeorology, Explainable AI/ML, Remote Sensing, Weather Forecasting, Meteorology and Climatology Related product Developments

Shwetabh Yadav

Shwetabh Yadav

Assistant Professor
Geotechnical Engineering
Ph. D., Indian Institute of Science Bengaluru, India
+91 40 2301-6321

Research Interests

Rock Mechanics, Experimental Solid Mechanics, High-Speed Imaging, Mechanics of Large Strain Deformation, Image Based Measurement Techniques

Sk Zeeshan Ali

Sk Zeeshan Ali

Assistant Professor
Hydraulics and Water Resources Engineering
Ph. D., Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India
+91 40 2301-6318

Research Interests

Analytical Hydrodynamics, Turbulent Boundary Layer Flows, Fluvial Hydraulics, Sediment Transport, Morphodynamics

Sourav Das

Sourav Das

Assistant Professor
Structural Engineering
Ph. D., The University of British Columbia, Canada
+91 40 2301-

Research Interests

Wind Energy, Aerodynamics, Energy Harvesting

Subhojit Kadia

Subhojit Kadia

Assistant Professor
Hydraulics and Water Resources Engineering
Ph. D., Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway
+91 40 2301-6326

Research Interests

Experimental Hydraulics, CFD and Turbulence Modeling, Open Channel Flows and Sediment Transport, Hydraulic Structures

J. N. Reddy

J. N. Reddy

Distinguished Professor
Structural Engineering
Ph. D., University of Alabama, U.S.A.
+91 40 2301-

Research Interests

Plates and Shells, Finite Elements

Nemkumar Banthia

Nemkumar Banthia

Distinguished Professor
Structural Engineering
Ph. D., University of British Columbia, Canada
+91 40 2301-

Research Interests

Sustainable Concrete Infrastructure, Nano-modified Fiber Reinforced Composites

Rao Y. Surampalli

Rao Y. Surampalli

Distinguished Professor
Environmental Engineering
Ph. D., Iowa State University, U.S.A.
+91 40 2301-

Research Interests

Solid and Hazardous Waste Management, Risk Reduction of Nanomaterials

Majid Hassanizadeh S.

Majid Hassanizadeh S.

Adjunct Professor
Hydraulics and Water Resources Engineering
Ph. D., Princeton University, U.S.A.
+91 40 2301-

Research Interests

Theoretical, computational, and experimental studies of two-phase flow and transport of solutes, viruses, and colloids in porous media, pore-scale modelling (pore-network models, Discrete Element methods, and SPH)

Rajagopalan Balaji

Rajagopalan Balaji

Adjunct Professor
Hydraulics and Water Resources Engineering
Ph. D., Utah State University, U.S.A.
+91 40 2301-

Research Interests

Understanding and modeling space-time variability of hydroclimatology and extremes, Bayesian hierarchical and statistical learning methods for climate, hydrology, ecology, water and wastewater quality, ecology, public health, human migration, construction safety risk and others