ADDITIONAL ASSIGNMENTS

At IIT Indore

• Head, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Indore (2019-2022)
• Member Senate, IIT Indore since 2019
• Vice Chairman, GATE (2020-2022)
• Nodal officer, Vigyan Jyoti Scheme, IIT Indore sine June 2020
• Vice Chairman for JEE (Advanced), 2018- 2020
• Convener, DUGC (Discipline Undergraduate Programme Committee), Department of Civil Engineering, 2017- 2019
• Warden, Marie Curie Hostel, 2019-2020
• Member, Accommodation and Hospitality committee, 2018- 2020
• Member, Anti ragging and Anti harassment committee, 2018- 2019
• I/c of Soil Mechanics Laboratory, 2018-till date
• Coordinator for B. Tech. 2016 (Civil)
• Warden, Hall of Residence , 2018-2019
• Nodal Faculty from IIT Indore for increasing Women in B.Tech at IITs since March 2018 | Read more
• Faculty Advisor (Martial Arts) in Sports, Health and Fitness committee for Students. 2018-2019

At IIIT Hyderabad

• I/c of Soil Mechanics Laboratory, 2010-2017
• Warden for Girls Hostel and Member of Council of Wardens (COW) (2010-2016)
• Convener of Campus Services Coordination & Beautification Committee (CSCBC), 2009-2012
• Member of Gender Sensitization Committee (GCS), 2015-2017
• Member of International Student Travel Grant committee, 2009-2016

Key Positions in International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE)

• Convener, 12th ISFMG 2026
• Nominated Member, Joint Technical Committees (JTC) 1: Natural Slopes and Landslides, ISSMGE.
• Member: Technical committee 203 (TC-203) (Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering and Associated Problems) of International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE) (2022-2025)
• Member: Technical committee 220 (TC-220) (Field Monitoring in Geomechanics) of International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE) (2019-2025)
• Member: Discovery Sub Committee, ISSMGE Heritage Time Capsule (HTC)
• Member: ISSMGE Heritage Time Capsule (HTC) Asia Team

Key Positions in Indian Geotechnical Society (IGS)

• Chairman, IGS Indore Local Chapter, 2024-2026
• National Executive Committee Member, IGS Main Body, 2018-2024
• Associate Editor, Indian Geotechnical Journal; Since 2023
• Co-convener, 10th IYGEC to be held on the 7th and 8th of March 2025 at the Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India.

Keynote/ Invited Lectures

• Delivered Keynote Lecture on "Physical and Numerical Modeling of Debris Flow Behavior, Runout & Deposition: Insights from Indian Case Studies" at the GeoMandu International Conference on 29 November 2024 organised by Nepal Geotechnical Society.
• Delivered Keynote Lecture on "Geotechnical and Structural Aspects of Tunnel Design in Highway Projects" at the SLGS Annual Conference-2024 on 8 October 2024 organized by Sri Lankan Geotechnical Society.
• Delivered Invited Lecture on "Real-time Monitoring of Active Landslides in Darjeeling (Kalimpong) and Central (Joshimath) Himalayas" at the GeoMandu - An Nepal Geotechnical Society International Conference Series on 16 March 2023.
• Delivered Keynote Lecture on "Landslide forecasting for disaster risk reduction: Case studies" at the GEOLEAP - Geotechnics: Learning, Evaluation, Analysis and Practice, Indian Geotechnical Conference, Pre-Conference Workshop on 14th December 2022.
• Delivered Keynote Lecture on "Seismic soil structure interaction analysis of piled-raft supported asymmetrical buildings" at the 17th Edition of the Symposium on Earthquake Engineering (17SEE) on 15th November 2022.
• Delivered Jai Krishna Memorial Lecture on "SSI analysis of pile foundation" at the 37th National Convention of Civil Engineers & National Conference on "Emerging Technologies & Seismic Concerns" on 16th October 2022.
• An Invited lecture on Advances in Deep Foundation, 10 June 2022 at Marathwada Institute of Technology, Aurangabad, Maharashtra.
• An Expert lecture on Bio-immobilization of Heavy/Toxic Metal in Sand using MICP, 7 April 2022 at NIT-Hamirpur, Himachal Pradesh.
• An Invited lecture on Sustainable Ground Improvement for Liquefaction Mitigation, 14 March 2022 at Chamelidevi Group of Institutions, Indore, Madhya Pradesh
• An Invited lecture on Nature-based Ground Improvement Methods, 10 March 2022 at C.V. Raman Global University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha
• An Invited speaker in One-day Seminar (Online) on Women Empowerment in Civil Engineering: Inspiring Change, 8 March 2022
• An Invited lecture in One Week STTP on "Importance of Soil Investigations and Non-Destructive Techniques", 8 March 2022 Jointly Organised by IGS Aurangabad Chapter in association with Civil Engineering Department, M.I.T., Aurangabad & D.B.A.T.U., Lonere
• An Invited lecture on Seismic Site Characterization and Dynamic Analysis of Pile Supported Wharf Structure, 8 Sep 2021 at Indo-Chile Workshop on Recent Advancements in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering
• Special Invited lecture on Forecasting rainfall induced landslides using Rainfall Thresholds: Case studies from Western Ghats at 7th International Conference on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics
• An Invited webinar on Laboratory to Large-Scale Application of Biocementation in Liquefiable Sand, 18 June 2021 at the University of Illinois at Chicago
• An Invited Lecture on Geotechnical Exploration and Investigation Techniques, Dec 2020 at Gyan Ganga Institute of Technology and Science Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh
• An Invited Lecture on Threshold for the assessment of rainfall induced landslides, Landslide Mitigation & Detailed Project Report (DPR) Preparation, Nov 2020 at IIT Roorkee
• An Invited Lecture on Seismic Microzonation of Indian Mega Cities, Hyderabad Chapter Indian Geotechnical Chapter, Nov 2006 at JNTU Hyderabad
• A Keynote presentation on Seismic Hazard Assessment for Delhi Region with Respect to Liquefaction Potential at International Conference on Natural Hazards and Disaster management, CBIT Hyderabad, Dec 2007
• A Presentation on Multi Channel Analysis of Surface Wave (MASW) Testing For dynamic site Characterization of Delhi Region 5th International Conference on Recent advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil dynamics, May 24-29,San Diego, California
• A special keynote lecture on Seismic design of Retaining Structures in National Conference on Seismic Design of Earth Structures and Foundations for High Rise Buildings (SDESF 2010) on 26th June 2010
• A keynote presentation on Assessment of Gmax and field CBR of subgrade soil using Multichannel Analysis of Surface Wave (MASW) Testing, Recent Advances in Pavement Engineering, MVSR Engg. College, 26-27 Mar 2010
• A keynote presentation on Liquefaction: Behavior Evidence, Prediction, and Prevention in International Conference in Earth Sciences and Engineering on 21.8.10 at Malla Reddy Engineering College.
• An invited lecture on Foundation design for practicing civil engineers at National Academy of Construction on 9th August 2011, Hyderabad
• An Invited lectures on 6th and 8th September 2011 at Dr. MCR Human Resource Development Institute of AP, Govt. of AP on Earthquakes: Causes, Effects and Mitigation measures during the training program on Earthquake risk mitigation and management.
• A Keynote lecture on Liquefaction Hazard Assessment for Vijayawada Urban, Symposium on Geotechnical Applications (GeoApps) JNTU Hyderabad, April 15, 2011
• A Keynote lecture on Liquefaction Assessment of two cities in India using SPT and Vs methods in 1st Indo Japan workshop on Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering, 14th Dec 2011, Kochi
• An invited lecture on Importance of Geotechnical Investigations for Civil engineering Structures for practicing civil engineers at Electronics Corporation of India Ltd, GoI on 9th February 2012, Hyderabad
• An invited lectures on Rock mass classification and Rock slope stability analysis during 2 days workshop on the significance of Rock mechanics in civil engineering, Department of civil engineering, Andhra University, 1-2 Oct 2012.
• An invited lecture on Site investigation and significance of site characterization during 3 - day training programme on Integrated Participative Decentralized Planning for Panchayat Raj Engineers from 4th to 6th October, 2012 at AMR-APARD, Rajendranagar, Hyderabad, 5th Oct 2012
• Invited lecture on “Site characterization and Ground Response Analysis of Vijayawada city” to Japanese Geotechnical Society, Tokyo on 28th Feb 2012
• An invited lecture at Vardhaman Engineering college on “Advances in Geotechnical Engineering”, 5th oct 2013.
• An invited lecture on Earthquake Resistant design of foundations during 2 day workshop at University of Bangalore, 26th Oct 2013.
• An invited lecture on Earthquake Process, Dr MCRMHRD, Hyderabad on 28th May 2013.
• An invited lecture on Soil structure Interaction analysis of pile supported structures, Two-day National Workshop on “Soil-Structure Interaction (SSI-2014)” 31st Oct– 01st Nov, 2014, GMRIT Vizag
• An invited lecture on Liquefaction Process, Gitam University Hyderabad Campus on 21st Feb 2015
• A Keynote lecture on Landslide Hazard in Jorethang, Sikkim during 18th Sep 2011 earthquake, Geodisasters: ground & slope instability,on Oct 1st, 2016 JNTU Hyderabad
• An Invited theme lecture on Determination of anelastic attenuation factor (Q) and decay factor (k) from ground motion records of the intra-plate region on 14th Dec at IGC 2017
• An invited keynote on Aquasense: Development of Smart water monitoring system on 21st Dec 2017 at JNTU Hyderabad
• An invited keynote on Landslide hazard and monitoring at Kalimpong, India on 24th Feb 2018 at JNGEC sundernagar, Mandi
• An invited expert lecture by ACCE Indore chapter on Significance of Geotechnical Investigations for various Infra structure Projects, March 23rd, 2018 at Amarvilas Hotel.
• An Expert lecture by IGS Indore Chapter on Soil Structure Interaction of Pile Raft foundations, March 24th, 2018 at SGSITS Indore.
• An Expert lecture on Earthquake Damages and Assessment, April 18th, 2018 at Sri Vishnav Vidhyapeeth Indore.
• A special Invited talk for research collaboration on Landslide prediction models and real time warning system on May 4th 2018 at NCESS Trivandrum
• An invited expert lecture by IGS Goa Chapter on SDynamic Soil Structure Interaction of Pile Supported Asymmetrical Structures, October 15th, 2018 at GEC Goa
• A keynote speaker on Liquefaction hazard and modelling Advances in Earthquake Engineering on 27th Oct 2018 sponsored by Madhya Pradesh Council of Science and Technology Bhopal at IPS Academy, Indore
• An invited speaker on Challenges in Geotechnical engineering career on 14th Dec 2018 at IISc Bangalore during IGC 2018
• An expert lecture on Landslide hazard and its understanding the failure mechanism on 22nd Dec 2018 at Sri Vidhyanikethan College of Engineering, Tirupati
• An Invited speaker at Masterminds session on Landslide Hazards in India by NCESS, MoES on Landslide Prediction, Monitoring and Early Warning on 10th Jan 2019
• An Invited speaker at NABL-IGS workshop on significance of geotechnical investigations for infrastructure projects, Jan 28th 2019

Organizing Committee Member / Chair / Reviewer of Major Conferences / Projects:

• International Advisory Committee member at 2nd International Conference on Construction Resources for Environmentally Sustainable Technologies (CREST 2023), Fukuoka, Japan, planned to be held during November 20 - 22, 2023.
• Scientific Committee member at the Mediterranean Geosciences Union Annual Meeting (MedGU-21), held in Istanbul, Turkey, on 25-28th November 2021.
• Session convener , EGU General Assembly 2022, Towards Reliable Landslide Early Warning Systems, Conveners: Luca Piciullo, Dalia Kirschbaum, Stefano Luigi Gariano, Neelima Satyam, Samuele Segoni
• Session convener , AGU Fall Meeting 2021, NH003. Advances in Modeling of Rockslide and Flood Events with Special Reference to the 7 February 2021 Dhauli-Ganga Disaster in Uttarakhand, Western Himalaya, Conveners: N. Purnachandra Rao, Niels Hovius, Prakash Chauhan and Neelima Satyam
• Organizing Committee member for First Indo- Brazilian Geotechnical Webinar, Indian Geotechnical Society 16-18 June 2021
• Organizing Committee member for National Workshop on Reinforcement Detailing and Formwork (NWRDF-2009) April 25th, 2009
• Course Faculty for Short-term Course on Seismic Analysis of Highrise Buildings Organized by Earthquake Engineering Research Centre, IIIT Hyderabad on 22-24th July 2010
• Technical Committee member for International conference in Earth Sciences and Engineering on 21.8.10 at Malla Reddy Engineering College, Hyderabad
• Program chair for the technical event organized by IGS and JNTUH on Geotechnical practices and Design held on 10th April 10
• Reviewer for 13th International Conference of the International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics, 9-11 May 2011 Melbourne, Australia
• Program chair for National workshop on research methodology on June 26th 2011, IIIT Hyderabad
• Organizing Committee member for Symposium on Geotechnical Practices GeoPractices-2011, 5th Nov2011 JNTU Hyderabad
• Organizing Committee member for 1 Day Conference on Geosynthetic Lining Solutions and Related Issues, ASCE India Southern Region on 25th February 2012
• Organizing Secretary for 1st Young Geotechnical Conference of AP (YGeoTech-2012), March 31st 2012
• Chief Guest for Science Fair 2012 at Rao’s Educational Institution Hyderabad on 29th Feb 2012.
• Reviewer for Seventh International Conference On Case Histories In Geotechnical Engineering and symposium in honor of Clyde baker Wheeling, il (Chicago, IL area) – April 29-may 4, 2013 http://7icchge.mst.edu
• Reviewer for 2nd International Conference on Geotechnique, Construction Materials and Environment, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Nov.14-16, 2012
• Rapportier for National conference on Geosynthetics for Infrastructure, 25-26th August 2012, Osmania University.
• Organizing Committee member for Symposium on Geotechnical Practices GeoPractices-2011, 10th Nov2012, JNTU Hyderabad
• Organizing Committee member for seminar  on ‘Geotechnics for Irrigation Projects’ on 28th August 2014 at JNTUHCEH- Hyderabad.
• Organizing Committee member for workshop on “Geotechnical Practices (GeoPractices-2015)” at JNTUH College of Engineering, Hyderabad on 27th February, 2015

 Continuing Education Programme (CEP) Conducted:

• Course Coordinator for five days workshop on Sustainable Geoenvironmental Practices: Hazard Mitigation and Environment Protection during 27th - 31st March, 2023.
• Course Coordinator for two days workshop on Landslide Hazard: Forecasting, Monitoring, and Early Warning during 9th and 10th February, 2023.
• Course Coordinator for Three Day Short Course on GEOTECHNICAL ASPECTS OF EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING during 21st - 23rd July 2022.
• Course Coordinator for Three Day Short Course on GEOTECHNICAL ASPECTS OF EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING during 26th - 28th December 2019.
• Course Coordinator for Two Day National Seminar on ADVANCES IN GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING 29th - 30th March 2019.
• Course Coordinator for Short Course on Recent Advances in Geotechnical and Structural Engineering, March 8-10 2018
• Coordinator for National Conference on Seismic Design of Earth Structures and Foundations for High Rise Buildings (SDESF 2010) on 26th June 2010
• Coordinator for Short Course on seismic design of RC high-rise structures during May 12-14, 2011
• Course Coordinator for Short Course on Geotechnical Aspects of Earthquake Engineering Organized by Earthquake Engineering Research Centre, IIIT Hyderabad on 8-10th Dec 2011
• Coordinator for Technical lecture series every month in the area of Geotechnical engineering for the year 2011-2012
  1. Prof. G.V.Rao on Geosynthetics for Practioners on 12th August 2011
  2. Prof. T.Ramamurthy on Rock mass characterization for designers on 9th Sep 2011
  3. Dr V M Sharma from AIMIL on Rock Engineering and Underground construction on 18th Nov 2011
  4. Dr Sivakumar Queen’s University Belfast on Behaviour of unsaturated soils on 20th Dec 2011
  5. Dr Micheal Lysuk, Russia on Soil structure interaction analysis for historical structures in St Petersburg, 13th Feb 2012
  6. Dr Kumar Pitchumani, AECOM on Geotechnical engineering theory and practice on 31st March 2012
• Course Coordinator for Short Course on Rock Mechanics and Underground Structures Organized by Earthquake Engineering Research Centre, IIIT Hyderabad on 23-25th August 2012
• Course Coordinator for Short Course on Geotechnical Aspects of Earthquake Engineering Organized by Earthquake Engineering Research Centre, IIIT Hyderabad on 30th May- 1st June 2013
• Coordinator for National Work Shop on Stability of Structures, 27th Sep 2013
• Organizer for National Conference on Advances in Geotechnical Engineering, 11-12th July 2014 sponsored by DST at IIIT Hyderabad
• Coordinator for Technical lecture on Challenges Involved in Ground Improvement and sustainability of Civil Structures by Prof Anand J Puppala on 18th August 2014
• Coordinator for Technical lecture on Design and Construction of Long Span Bridges by Sai Baba Ankala, CE Indian Railways on 01 Nov, 2014
• Course Coordinator for Short Course on Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering, Jan 29-31 2015
• Convener for 2 Day Natiponal seminar on Advances in Geotechnical Engineering, March 29-30 2019

Examination of external Ph.D./MS/M.Tech. Thesis:

• Ph.D. thesis entitled "Dynamic Soil Structure Interaction of Framed Structure Supported on Pile Aand Piled Raft Foundation" by Mr. Subramanya K G at Visvesvarya Technological University, Belgaum, 4th January 2023.
• Ph.D. thesis entitled "Regional And Local-Scale Analysis of Landslides Induced by Rainfall and Earthquakes" by Ms. Himanshu Rana at Department of Civil Engineering, IISc Bangalore.
• Ph.D. thesis entitled "Multi-Scale Approaches for Monitoring Rainfall-Induced Landslides" by Mr. M. Naresh at Indian Institute of Technology Mandi.
• Ph.D. thesis entitled "A Geotechnical Study on the Performance of Treated Expansive Soils and their Range Representative System along the Coastal Area of East Godavari District." by Mr. B. Varaprasada Rao at JNTU Kakinada, August 2021
• Ph.D. thesis entitled "Computational Techniques for Shear and Compressibility Characteristics of Residuak Soils" by Mr. Y. Venkata Subbaiah at Sri Venkateshwara University Tirupati, August 2021
• Ph.D. thesis entitled "Analysis of Stiffened Granular Pile with Raft" by Ms. Raksha Rani Sanadhya at RTU Kota, December 2019
• Ph.D. thesis entitled "Effect of Rainfall and Earthquake on Landslides of Darjeeling Himalayas" by Mr. Prashant Kumar Kundu at IIT Delhi, March 2019
• Ph.D. thesis entitled "Rainfall-Runoff Modelling Using Geomatics" by Mr. Gumpalli Sreenivasa Rao at JNTU Hyderabad, Feb 2019
• Ph.D. thesis entitled “Propogation of elastic waves in solids" by Mr. Manoj Kumar Singh at IIT(ISM) Dhanbad, Sep 2018
• Ph.D Thesis entitled Performance of reinforced soil for gravity retaining wall by Mr Sushil Sagar Sharma, NIT Hamirpur, Feb 2018
• PhD thesis of Mr Jairaj titled Performance and longevity studies on modified and unmodified coir reinforced soil, Visvesvaraya Technological University, Karnataka. Oct 2018
• MS by Research thesis titled development of LULC model for Krishna basin by Mr Gaurav Parida, IIIT Hyderabad, July 2018
• M.Tech. dissertation by Mr Srinivas Rao (Roll No. 062040102) of Department of civil Engineering, JNTU Hyderabad July, 2008.
• M.Tech. dissertation by Rambabu (Roll No. 062040312) of Department of Civil Engineering, JNTU Hyderabad, July, 2008.
• Ph.D dissertation by Mr. P. Ramesh on “Modification of Geotechnical Properties of an Expansive Clay through Inorganic Chemicals” Sri Venkateshwara University Tirupati, 2011
• Ph.D dissertation by Mrs. N. Sulochana on “Analysis,Assessment and Constitutive Modelling of Soils” Sri Venkateshwara University Tirupati, 2011
• M.Tech. dissertation by K.Venu (Roll No. 08012D1201) on Stabilization of Expansive Soil with Magnesium Chloride, Department of Civil Engineering, JNTU Hyderabad, June, 2012.
• M.Tech. dissertation by R.V.S. Raghava Sarma (Roll No. 08012D1216) on Influence of Compaction on CBR and Strength Characteristics of Flyash Gravelly sand and mixtures, Department of Civil Engineering, JNTU Hyderabad, June, 2012.
• M.Tech. dissertation by D.Praveen Amruth Kumar (Roll No. 09011D3904) on Pullout Behaviour of Anchors Embeded in Sand with and without Suction, Department of Civil Engineering, JNTU Hyderabad June, 2012.
• M.Tech. dissertation by K.Shiva Prashantha Kumar (Roll No. 09011D3905) on Physical and Numerical Modeling of One dimensional contaminant Transport considering sorption, Department of Civil Engineering, JNTU Hyderabad, June, 2012.