Gaurav Tiwari

Associate Professor

Hi! I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur where I lead the Engineering Rock Mechanics Lab. My research focuses on experimental, numerical and uncertainty analyses of rock materials and structures, with emphasis on dynamic behavior, fracture processes, and stability of rock excavations.

In addition to research, I am deeply involved in teaching courses on Rock Mechanics, Soil Mechanics, Foundation Analysis, Mechanics of Solids and Risk and Reliability in Geotechnical Engineering, and I actively mentor undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctoral students. I strive to create a research-oriented and conceptually strong learning environment, integrating laboratory-based insights and computational approaches into classroom teaching.

Biography

I received my bachelor's degree from MBM Govt Eng. College Jodhpur in 2011, M.Tech from Indian Insitute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee in 2013 (Advisor: Narendra Kumar Samadhiya) and PhD from Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru in 2018 (Advisor: Madhavi Latha G). Prior to joining Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur, I was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru. My broad research area at IISc was experimental rock mechanics with focus on rate dependent behaviour of rocks and application of probabilistic and statistical methods for reliability analysis in rock engineering. My current research focuses on dynamic response of rocks, grain based modelling of rocks, hybrid reliability methodologies for rock engineering considering polymorphic uncertainty modelling and THMC modelling of rocks for energy storage applications.

• Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Kanpur (2024 – Present)
• Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Kanpur (2018 – 2024)
• Post-Doctoral Research Associate, IISc Bangalore (2018)

Research Interests

• Geotechnical Engineering
• Experimental Rock Mechanics
• Probabilistic Rock Engineering
• Numerical Modelling in Rock Engineering
• AI/ML in Rock Engineering
• Stochastic THMC Modelling
• Probabilistic Grain Scale Modelling