About Me
I am an Assistant Professor of Geotechnical Engineering in the Department of Civil Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi. My research aims to understand and solve challenging problems involving the behaviour of soils and geomaterials under large deformation, complex loading, and extreme environmental conditions.
My international academic experience includes postdoctoral research at TU Delft, the Netherlands; Aalto University, Finland; and the City University of Hong Kong. These experiences have shaped an interdisciplinary research programme combining fundamental soil mechanics, advanced computation, experimental modelling, and engineering applications.
News and Updates
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Determining seabed shear strength from free-fall cone penetrometer test data: Coupled experimental, numerical, and analytical insights Accepted in Ocean Engineering. Link
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Rate Effects on Cyclic Stiffness and Ratcheting of Monopile Foundations in Clay presented in 11th International Conference on Physical Modelling in Geotechnics. Link
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Engineering Challenges and Lessons Learnt from Centrifuge Modelling of Monopile–Clay Interaction presented in 11th International Conference on Physical Modelling in Geotechnics. Link
Research Interests
Offshore and onshore Geotechnical Engineering
Large Deformation Analysis of Geotechnical Systems
Stability Analysis of Offshore and Onshore Geo-structures
Advanced Numerical Discretization Techniques (e.g., S-FEM, Meshless, Adaptive FEM)
Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil-Structure Interaction
Constitutive Modelling of Soils
Monopile on Clay
Centrifuge modelling of geotechnical systems
Fracture mechanics and hydro-fracture modeling for energy geotechnics
Research Outcome
Meshless and smoothed FEM
MPM Analysis OF Norsand
centrifuge Modelling
Modelling Cone penetration into Marine Clay
Mode Shapes of OWT
Animations and videos
Thesis Defence
Adaptive mesh-based Finite Element Limit Analysis
IGC-2018 Presentation