Education

Ph.D., SUNY at Buffalo, USA
M.S., SUNY at Buffalo, USA
B.Tech, IIT Kanpur


Professional Registrations/Licenses

Professional Engineer (P.E.)
Licensed Professional Civil Engineer (C85042), California


Professional experience

Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Bombay (2023-present)
Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Bombay (2016-2023)
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Civil Engineering, SUNY at Buffalo, USA (2015-2016)
Civil Engineer, Rio Tinto, Australia (2008-2009)


Invited Lectures and Workshops

  • Visiting Scholar, Seismic isolation, Beijing University of Technology, China (2019)
  • STSI Award to visit Hokkaido University, Hokkaido University, Japan (2019)
  • Seismic response control of structures, MNIT Jaipur, TEQIP (2019)
  • National workshop on recent changes in the Indian seismic codes (IS 1893, IS 13920), Kolhapur (2016)
  • Visiting Scholar, Beijing University of Technology, China (2016)
  • Keynote lecture on prefabricated structures, Military Engineering Services (2016)
  • EERI seminar to graduate students on using SAP2000 for nonlinear analysis (2016)
  • Seminar to graduate students on analysis and design of seismic isolators (2016)
  • Workshop for estimation of blast load using the CFD software Air3D (2014)
  • Workshop for graduate students on using LS-DYNA (2013)
  • Workshop for graduate students on using OpenSees (2011)

Professional Registrations and Trainings

  • Licensed Professional Civil Engineer (C85042), California (2015)
  • Certified user, LS-PrePost and LS-DYNA, Livermore Corp., Michigan (2016)
  • Certified user, OpenSees, University of California at Berkeley (2011)
  • Project Management, Engineers Education Australia (2008)

Professional Memberships

  • Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) (2012-present)
  • National Information Centre of Earthquake Engineering (NICEE) (2010-present)
  • American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) (2010-present)
  • American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) (2014-present)
  • American Concrete Institute (ACI) (2012-present)
  • American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) (2014-present)

Code committees

Member, CED 39 committee of Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) on Base-isolated Buildings