EDUCATION

• Ph.D. (Civil): Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA
• M.S. (Civil): Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA
• B.E. (Civil): Motilal Nehru Regional Engineering College (now MNNIT), Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Madras, Chennai, India, September 2010 Present.
• Post-doctoral Scholar, School of Civil and Construction Engineering, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, USA, October 2009 August 2010
• Post-doctoral Research Associate, Texas Transportation Institute, College Station, Texas, USA, June 2009 October 2009
• Research Associate, Texas Transportation Institute, College Station, Texas, USA, June 2003 January 2004
• Graduate Research/Teaching Assistant, Texas A&M University System, College Station, Texas, USA, December 2000 June 2003 & January 2004 January 2009

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Development of corrosion test methods for steel-cementitious systems
• Monitoring and prevention of corrosion in concrete structures
• Bond performance of corroding prestressed (pre-tensioned) concrete systems
• Service life estimation and time-variant structural reliability assessment
• Repair and rehabilitation of concrete structures
• Grouting of post-tensioned systems