Students Achievements

• Nikhil Kumar Pandey received the Short-term Collaborative Research Fellowship from IIT Indore to travel to the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR to conduct part of his PhD research for three months.
• Dr. Kunal Gupta received Young Scientist Award in Civil Engineering from the Madhya Pradesh Council of Science and Technology during the 39th Young Scientist Congress 2024 for his research paper titled, "Integrating Real-time Sensor Data for Improved Hydrogeotechnical Modelling in Landslide Early Warning in Western Himalaya".
• Dr. Minu Treesa Abraham received the IGS-Prof. Leonard's Annual Award 2022 for the best PhD Thesis in Geotechnical Engineering by the Indian Geotechnical Society, for her Thesis titled, "Rainfall Induced Landslides in the Western Ghats, India: Spatio-temporal Forecasting and Debris Flow Modeling."
• Dr. Meghna Sharma delivered the Bright Spark Lecture 2023 at the Indian Geotechnical Conference 2023 (IGC 2023).
• Dr. Minu Treesa Abraham received the Best Referee Award 2021, by the journal Geoscience Frontiers, Elsevier.
• Dr. Meghna Sharma and Prof. Neelima Satyam received the prestigious "IGS - Sardar Resham Singh Memorial Award - 2023" for their research titled, "Design of Bio-Chem-Reactor for Liquefaction Mitigation using Microbially induced Calcite Precipitation Method" in "Original and Innovative Research/Applications/Procedures" section.
• Dr. Kunal Gupta received the best theme paper award for his article titled, "An integrated approach to co-seismic landslide hazard assessment by probabilistic modelling of parametrical uncertainties in modified Newmark's model" in 9th Indian Young Geotechnical Engineers Conference, Aurangabad.
• Dr. Kunal Gupta received the Short term Collaborative Research Fellowship from IIT Indore to travel to the University of Florence, Italy for conducting part of his PhD research for three months.
• Dr. Meghna Sharma received the prestigious DST INSPIRE Faculty Fellowship from 2022 (DST/INSPIRE/04/2022/001329).
• Dr. Kunal Gupta received the prestigious Prime Minister's Research Fellowship (PMRF) for his PhD research from 2022. (Link)
• UG Student Ms. Lekshmi S. Sunil received CHANAKYA UG Fellowship of IITI DRISHTI CPS Foundation for project titled "Automatic land use/ land cover classification tool for diverse landscapes: A machine learning approach".
• Dr. Nitin Tiwari has been appointed as a Member of the Standing Committee on Geosynthetics (AKG80) - Transportation Research Board (TRB) for 2021-2024. (Link)
• Dr. Meghna Sharma received the Springer Best Paper Award for the paper titled, "Influence of Freezing-Thawing cycles on Biotreated sand using MICP by Meghna Sharma and D Neelima Satyam" under the theme, "Geo-Environmental Engineering" presented in the "Indian Geotechnical Conference 2021 - Geotechnics for Infrastructure Development and Innovative Applications" organized during December 16 - 18, 2021 by IGS Trichy Chapter and National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli.
• Dr. Meghna Sharma's research article is considered as the top-cited article of 2020-2021 in WILEY on "Comparison of improved shear strength of biotreated sand using different ureolytic strains and sterile conditions". In Journal of Soil Use Management, Wiley.(Link)
• Dr. Nitin Tiwari, Prof. Neelima Satyam and Dr. Meghna Sharma Received the Best Research Paper Award 2021 conferred by the Indian Institute of Technology Indore for the publication titled, Micro-Mechanical Performance Evaluation of Expansive Soil Biotreated with Indigenous Bacteria using MICP Method, Scientific Reports, Springer Nature (Q1), 11, 10324, 2021.
• Dr. Meghna Sharma joined as Institute Post Doctoral Fellow at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay.
• Prof. Neelima Satyam and Dr. Meghna Sharma filed an Indian Patent titled "Bio-Chem-Reactor for Biocementation and Method Thereof" (application No. 202021051658) has been published, Intellectual Property India (Status: Published on 19/03/2021).
• Dr. Minu Treesa Abraham received the Outstanding Student Presentation Award at American Geophysical Union Fall meeting, 2021 (Link).
• Dr. Minu Treesa Abraham got Featured in American Geophysical Union Early Career Research Spotlight for the month June 2022 (Link).
• Dr. Minu Treesa Abraham's research article on "IoT-Based Geotechnical Monitoring of Unstable Slopes for Landslide Early Warning in the Darjeeling Himalayas" listed as highly cited article in the field of IoT, by sensors, MDPI (Link).
• Dr. Minu Treesa Abraham, Neelima Satyam and Biswajeet Pradhan received an Australian Innovation Patent titled "Modelling calibration of friction parameters for debris flows" on 10/11/2021 (Patent No. 2021106606) (Link).
• Dr. Minu Treesa Abraham's research article titled "The Selection of Rain Gauges and Rainfall Parameters in Estimating Intensity-Duration Thresholds for Landslide Occurrence: Case Study from Wayanad (India)" authored by Minu Treesa Abraham, Neelima Satyam,Ascanio Rosi, Biswajeet Pradhan and Samuele Segoni is listed in the Editor's choice articles of Water, MDPI (Link).
• Dr. Minu Treesa Abraham got selected for Humboldt Fellowship for Postdocs.
• Dr. Nitin Tiwari , working as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA (Feb 2022 - till date).
• Dr. Nitin Tiwari , Worked as Postdoctoral Fellow at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. (Oct 2021 - Jan 2022).
• Dr. Nitin Tiwari , worked as Research Associate at the Indian Institute of Technology Indore (May 2021 - Oct 2021).
• Dr. Nitin Tiwari Received Young Scientist Award in Civil Engineering from the Madhya Pradesh Council of Science and Technology during the 36th Young Scientist Congress 2021.FREE PRESS, Naidunia, NYOOOZ
• Dr. Nitin Tiwari has received the "Editor's Choice Papers Award-2020" for the article "Tiwari, N., Satyam, N. & Patva, J. Engineering Characteristics and Performance of Polypropylene Fibre and Silica Fume Treated Expansive Soil Subgrade. 6, 18 (2020). (https://doi.org/10.1007/s40891-020-00199-x)" from the "International Journal of Geosynthetics and Ground Engineering", Springer journal (Link).