CIV - Faculty

Faculty Members

Dr. Arun Prasad
Professor

aprasad.civ@iitbhu.ac.in

+91-9696447957


Area of Interest: Coal Combustion Residue/Ash Pond Stability; Ground Improvement; Soil Stabilization; Unsaturated Soil Mechanics.

Dr. Anurag Ohri
Professor

aohri[dot]civ[at]iitbhu[dot]ac[dot]in

+91-8081765686


Area of Interest: UAV based Photogrammetry, Spatial Decision support System, Remote Sensing and GIS Applications in Civil Engineering, Groundwater Modelling, Flood Modelling, Sequestration Modelling, Municipal Solid Waste Management.

Dr. Ankit Gupta
Professor & MoRTH Chair Professor

ankit.civ@iitbhu.ac.in

+91-783 911 4642


Area of Interest: Pavement Material Characterization, Rigid and Flexible Pavement Design, Pavement Performance, Pavement Management Systems, Sustainable Pavements, Traffic Flow Modeling, Road Safety.


Area of Interest: Geotechnical Engineering - Liquefaction studies on contaminated soils; Environmental Geotechnics; Electrokinetic consolidation; Waste Geopolymers; Soil Improvement using Waste by-products; Remediation of Contaminated soils.


Area of Interest: Pavement Materials and Characterization, Analysis and Design of Pavements, Highway Construction Practice, Airfield Pavements (Civil & Military), Sub-grade Soil Stabilization, Road Traffic Noise.


Area of Interest: Environmental Engineering – Air Pollution Control, Abatement of Automobile Exhaust Pollution, Water and Waste Water Treatment, Microbiological Removal of Trace Toxins, Modelling of Environmental Systems, Climate Change, Environmental Ethics.


Area of Interest: Structural Engineering – Continuum Mechanics; Structural Analysis & Design; Structural Optimization; Finite Element Analysis; Building Materials and Construction; Quality Assurance and Quality Control.

Dr. Medha Jha
Professor

mjha.civ@iitbhu.ac.in

+91-8081903353


Area of Interest: Hydro-geomorphology (Badlands and Wetland studies), Hydro-geology, Engineering Geology.

Dr. Prabhat Kumar Singh
Professor

psingh.civ@iitbhu.ac.in

542 -2307016(29), +91-9958189771


Area of Interest: Environmental Engineering

Dr. Prabhat Kumar Singh Dikshit
Professor

pksdikshit.civ@itbhu.ac.in

05426701526, 05422575860


Area of Interest:Hydro-climatical Modelling, Weather prediction and forecasting, Climate Extremes, Trend Assessment, Drought Monitoring, Flood Assessment, Downscaling, Stochastic hydrology, Artificial Intelligence, Machine learning, Ground water modelling, Adsorption, Environmental Impact Assessment, Heavy metal assessment and modelling, River water modelling, MODFLOW and SWAT modelling.


Area of Interest:Structural Dynamics, Solid Mechanics, Bridge Engineering, Design of Steel Structure, Fluid Structure Interaction.

Dr. Rajesh Kumar
Professor

rkumar.civ@iitbhu.ac.in

+919453788219, 542 -2307016(51)


Area of Interest: Structural Optimization, Non-Linear Structural Mechanics, Finite element analysis, Earthquake Engineering, Concrete Technology.


Area of Interest: Structural Engineering – Finite Element Analysis of Structures, Wind Effect on Structures, Advanced concrete Technology.

Dr. Shyam Bihari Dwivedi
Professor

sbd.civ@iitbhu.ac.in

9792262852, 542 -2307016(33)


Area of Interest: Engineering Geosciences.


Area of Interest:Vehicular Emissions, Air Quality Monitoring, Accident Analysis, Transportation Sensors, Data Science in Civil Engineering Applications.

Dr. Kamlesh Kumar Pandey
Associate Professor

kkp.civ@iitbhu.ac.in

542 -2307016(O)


Area of Interest: Unsteady Open Channel flow, Computational Fluid Dynamics,Stochastic Hydrology, Design of Hydraulic Structures.

Dr. Manash Chakraborty
Associate Professor

manashchakra.civ@iitbhu.ac.in

+91-9611193361


Area of Interest: Soil Mechanics, Finite Element Method, Limit Analysis, Unsaturated Soils.

Dr. Rosalin Sahoo
Associate Professor

rosalin.civ@iitbhu.ac.in

+91-9930425013


Area of Interest: Shear Deformation Theories; Laminated Composites/Sandwich Constructions; Plate/Shell structures; FGM/CNT/Smart Composites; Structural Analyses: Static, Free Vibration, Buckling and Dynamic Stability; Finite Element Method; Uncertainty Quantification.

Dr. Shishir Gaur
Associate Professor

shishirg.civ@iitbhu.ac.in

+91-7877152766


Area of Interest: Geoinformatics, Numerical Modeling, Optimization Techniques, Simulation-Optimization Modeling, Machine Learning, GIS and Remote Sensing, Water Resource Management.

Dr. Suresh Kumar
Associate Professor

skumar.civ@iitbhu.ac.in

+91-8800157987


Area of Interest:Ground Improvement Techniques, Geosynthetic and their applications, Geo polymerisation and Behaviour of Soft Soil under Cyclic Loading.

Dr. Supriya Mohanty
Associate Professor

supriya.civ@iitbhu.ac.in

+91-9848262825


Area of Interest:Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering, Liquefaction Potential Evaluation, Nonlinear Dynamic Response Analysis, Soil Dynamics, Waste Utilization.

Dr. Agnivesh P
Assistant Professor

agnivesh.civ@iitbhu.ac.in

+91-7737810020


Area of Interest: Transportation Planning, Freight Transportation, Travel Behaviour, City Logistics, Virtual and Augmented Reality for Engineering Design.

Dr. Anshuman Sharma
Assistant Professor

anshuman.civ@itbhu.ac.in

91-8130510368


Area of Interest: Intelligent Transportation Systems (including: connected and automated vehicles, and electric vehicles), Traffic Flow Theory, Traffic Safety, Human Factors.

Dr. Anshuman Satpathy
Associate Professor

asatpathy.civ@itbhu.ac.in

+91-7033296287


Area of Interest: Uranium Geochemistry, Emerging Pollutants, Mineral-water interface Chemistry, Wastewater Treatment, Sustainable Environmental Remediation, Circular Economy, Heavy Metals.

Dr. Ayan Haldar
Assistant Professor

ayan.civ@iitbhu.ac.in

(+91) 542 716529


Area of Interest: Structural Mechanics, Slender and Thin Structures, Adaptive Structures, Composite Structures, Mechanical Metamaterials.


Area of Interest: Structural health monitoring, real-time damage detection, online downtime detection, machine-learning algorithms for condition assessment, damping identification, FE model updating, and system identification.

Dr. Kesheo Prasad
Assistant Professor

kprasad.civ@iitbhu.ac.in

+91-9415991736


Area of Interest: Hydraulic Structures, Turbulent flow , Hydrogeology, Hydraulics and Water Resources Engineering.


Area of Interest: Stability of structural systems across scales, Mechanical Metamaterial, Application of Physics Informed Deep Learning for Solid Mechanic, Thin shells and plates, Aging infrastructure, Earthquake Engineering and ground motion simulation.

Dr. Mahendra Kumar Pal
Assistant Professor

mahendra.civ[at]iitbhu.ac.in

+91-542-716-5297


Area of Interest: Computational Solid Mechanics, Concrete Constitutive Modeling, Non-linear Dynamic Analysis, Large-Scale Numerical Simulation.

Dr. Pramod Soni
Assistant Professor

pramod.civ@iitbhu.ac.in

+91 542 716 5306, +91-9532810930


Area of Interest: Hydrological modeling, Climate Change, Machine Learning, GIS, remote sensing applications in water resources, Ground water hydrology, Atmospheric Modeling.


Area of Interest: Solid Waste Management, Odour Assessment, Composting and Invertebrate Composting, Anaerobic Biodegradation and Biogas Purification, Char and Biochar Production and utilisation, Leachate Treatment, Hydrothermal Carbonization (HTC) and Hydrothermal Liquefaction (HTL).

Dr. Rahul Singh
Assistant Professor

rahul.civ@iitbhu.ac.in

+91-8920216156


Area of Interest: Remediation of emerging contaminants in soil, and water; Permeable Reactive Barrier (PRB) for Groundwater Remediation; Mechanochemical degradation (MCD) technology for persistent pollutants; Green hydrogen for water treatment; Groundwater flow and transportation modelling.


Area of Interest: Life Cycle Assessment, Techno-Economic Modelling, Wastewater Treatment and Reuse, Water-Energy-GHG Nexus, Urban Water System.


Area of Interest: Geodesy and GNSS.

Dr. Samim Mustafa
Assistant Professor

samim.civ@iitbhu.ac.in

+91-5427165304, +91-6392667711


Area of Interest: Bayesian inference, Finite Element Model Updating, Structural Health Monitoring, Bridge Weigh-In-Motion, System Identification, Damping Analysis, Distributed Optical Fiber Sensing, Seismic Response Analysis of Bridges.

Dr. Shweta Singh
Assistant Professor

shweta.civ@iitbhu.ac.in

0542-7165286


Area of Interest: Drinking water treatment processes, Domestic and industrial wastewater treatment, Heavy metal removal techniques, Resource recovery and water reuse, Microbial fuel cell technology, and Nature-based solutions – passive treatment processes.

Dr. Vishwajit Anand
Assistant Professor

anand.civ@iitbhu.ac.in

+91-542-716-5308, +91-8072908384


Area of Interest: Earthquake Engineering; Rupture-to-Rafters Simulations; Dynamics of Offshore Structures; Novel Sustainable Materials; Machine Learning Applications in Earthquake Engineering.

Dr. Siddh Nath Upadhyay
snupadhyay.che@iitbhu.ac.in
Dr. Ram Prasad
rprasad.che@iitbhu.ac.in
Dr. Kaushal Kumar Srivastava
kksrivastava.che@iitbhu.ac.in
Dr. Ashok Kumar Verma
akverma.che@iitbhu.ac.in
Dr. A. S. K. Sinha
asksinha.che@iitbhu.ac.in
Mr. A. C. Mohan
acmohan.che@iitbhu.ac.in
Dr. B. N. Rai
bnrai.che@iitbhu.ac.in
Dr. Surendra Kumar
sktiwari.che@iitbhu.ac.in