Drones and advanced sensors for civil and heritage applications
Heritage conservation and sustainability
Pavement Geotechnics and Reliability based designs
Drones and advanced sensors for civil and heritage applications, Heritage conservation and sustainability, Pavement Geotechnics and Reliability based designs
Utilization of UAVs for heritage and built infrastructure monitoring, propose protocols for the automation of various procedures involved and investigate digital solutions for infrastructural applications.
Non-destructive material testing and image analysis-based damage prediction to supplement the conventional experimental and in-situ performance assessment of infrastructure.
Conservation of heritage structures and development of protocols for tests on material longevity, non-destructive testing and structural performance.
Applications of nano-composites in heritage structure preservation, soil stabilization and anti-icing of pavements.
Identify sustainable construction materials, investigate the potential of secondary materials for various infrastructure applications. Adopt net-zero adoption and construction practices in infrastructure.
Investigate the thermal behavior and responses of infrastructural elements.
Find possibilities for energy harvesting from pavements to take advantage of the incident solar radiation.
To utilize inter-disciplinary aspects such as data analysis, machine learning, satellite imagery-based data collection, statistical and probabilistic analysis for developing critical decision-making criteria and ensure optimized design and construction methods.
Awards & Fellowships
Best paper and best presentation awards at the international conference on unmanned aerial systems in geomatics (UASG 2023), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. December 2023.
Invited international research scientist with full funding for Brain Pool program, National Research Federation (NRF), South Korea (2021-22, 22-23).
Recipient of research excellence award for research performance at IIT Hyderabad for the years 2016 and 2017.
Recipient of National fellowship from Ministry of Human Resource Development, Govt. of India to pursue doctoral studies at Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India (2014-19).
Recipient of UGC-GATE fellowship from Ministry of Human Resource Development, Govt. of India to pursue Masters’ studies at National Institute of Technology Warangal, India (2012-2014).
Recipient of Uttam Pratibha Puraskar award for best undergraduate and graduate performance by vedcon academy for the years 2012 and 2014.
Awarded the best outgoing student award in civil engineering for 2008 – 2012 undergraduate batch.
Secured Sri Anajaneya Sastry silver medal for best academic performance, 2009-10.
Received university level gold medal and merit awards for best performance in engineering mechanics and surveying (2009-10).
Recipient of Infotech merit scholarship for academic excellence during 2008-09.
Recipient of research travel grant from Ministry of Human Resource Development, Govt. of India for presenting research work at the international conference on sustainability, energy and environment, GeoChicago 2016, held at Chicago, Illinois, USA. (August 2016).
Recipient of full visit grant from Japanese science and technology agency for attending the first Japan India exchange platform program (JIEPP) symposium held at the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan. (December 2018).
Selected as lecturer at Rajiv Gandhi University of Knowledge Technologies (RGUKT)- Andhra Pradesh, State Government of Andhra Pradesh, India. (2014).
Selected as under graduate civil engineer at BSCPL Infrastructure Pvt Ltd. (2012).
Received awards in various national level technical paper presentations.
Memberships
Professional Certification/License:
Licensed Drone Pilot, certified by DGCA, Govt. of India. – License No. PC0423000034C
Membership:
Indian Geotechnical Society (IGS) - Life Member No. LM-4290
American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)-Student Member No. 9355968.
American Society for Nondestructive Testing, NDT Professional Member- 342981.
American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) - Student Member No. 2146049.
Founder president and member of student chapter for Indian Geotechnical Society at IIT Hyderabad (2017-18).
International sakura science club for Japan Asia knowledge exchange. Life membership No. 181505764.
