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Education

Ph.D.

Awards and Recognitions

UN Fellow under the UNDP program on Wind Disaster Mitigation at University of California, Berkeley; Cornell University, University of Wales & TU, Delft

Ranked 2nd among the top ten authors in the country in the subject area of Engineering, 2009-2013 (page 102) and Again, ranked SECOND among top ten authors in the subject area of Engineering, 2009-2014 (page 251). Dept. of Science & Technology (DST), GoI document titled "International Comparative Performance of India's Research Base (2009-14) - A Bibliometric Analysis" December 2015 published by Elsevier http://www.dst.gov.in/sites/default/files/Elsevier.pdf.

CSIR Technology Prize for Engineering Technology for pioneering contributions and leadership in the development of advanced computational methodologies, modelling techniques and software for analysis and design of complex structures, that are nationally and internationally recognized

Awarded Medal for IBC Best Paper entitled “Innovative Construction Materials for Sustainable Development based on Biomimetics” presented at the 16th Annual Convention and National Seminar held at New Delhi during 17-19 June 2010

Dr M Ramaiah Endowment Award, Indian Concrete Institute

Ramasamy Reddy Endowment Award, Highways Research Station, Govt of Tamilnadu

Outstanding Achievement Award, CSIR Transformation Initiatives & ERP

John C Gammon Prize Award for the paper entitled "Numerical Investigations on a Blast Loaded Laced Reinforced Concrete Structure using an Equivalent Constitutive Property" published in the Journal of Institution of Engineers (published by Springer)

Dr Jai Krishna Prize for the paper entitled "Performance-based Seismic Evaluation of RC Framed Building" published (by Springer) in the Journal of Institution of Engineers

Awarded the Aerospace Engineering Division Gold Medal from the Institution of Engineers (I) for the paper on "Analysis for ship-water interaction effects"

Dr. Ramaiah Prize and Certificate of Special Mention for the best technical papers published were awarded a number of times since 2000 till date

Best Paper Award under the Impact Dynamics Category for the paper entitled “Impact simulation studies for damage assessment of plates”, at the 2nd Indian LS-DYNA User’s Conference

Awarded the First Prize for their paper on “ Crack Growth Study of Wing Bottom Skin Panel using ANSYS” at the Ansys User Conference

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INAE Section Affiliated

I: Civil Engineering

Year of Election to Fellowship

2008

Year of Birth

1952