Student Guidance

Post-Doctoral Fellows

• Dr. Saurav Kumar (IPDF; 2024-2025) – Probabilistic landslide hazard mapping
  [Current position: Assistant Professor, NIT Silchar]
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• Dr. Sachin Kumar (FARE Fellow; 2024-2025) – Dynamic behaviour of rocks
  [Current position: Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Adelaide]
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• Surabhi Maurya (2025-Ongoing) – Hybrid reliability methods for rock engineering
  [Current position: FARE Fellow, IIT Kanpur]
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PhD Students

• Akshay Kumar (MTech + PhD; Completed; 2018–2024) – Imprecise reliability and global sensitivity analysis of rock structures with limited data of rock properties.
  [Current position: Post-Doctoral Fellow, IIT Delhi]
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• Sachin Kumar (MTech + PhD; Completed; 2018–2024) – Experimental and numerical assessment of the impact loading response of rocks with filled/unfilled flaws
  [Current position: Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Adelaide]
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• Surabhi Maurya (Submitted; converted from MTech) – Hybrid Reliability Methodologies for Rock Engineering with Information Level Based Uncertainty Modelling of Inputs
  [Current position: FARE Fellow, IIT Kanpur]
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• Spandan Sahu (In progress; PMRF) – Coupled reliability and finite element limit analysis methodologies for analyzing rock tunnels stability
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• Gaurav Mathur (In progress; IIT Patna) – Cyclic behaviour of jointed rocks subjected to freezing and thawing
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• Sampat Raj (In progress; IIT Delhi) – Reliability analysis of stone columns based on alternate uncertainty models
  [Current position: Manager, Engineers India Limited, Delhi]
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• Animesh Anand (In progress; converted from MTech) – Rate dependency in the strength behaviour of rocks subjected to high temperature and chemical weathering
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• Sameer Lawankar (In progress; converted from MTech; PMRF) – Development of probabilistic bonded block model framework to study micro/macro mechanical behaviour and damage processes in rocks
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• Yatharth Mittal (In progress; converted from MTech) – Stochastic THMC-coupled methods for hydrogen storage in rocks
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M Tech Students

• Spandan Sahu (Completed in 2025) – A mixed conic optimization technique for stability analysis of unlined tunnels in anisotropic rock masses
• Surabhi Maurya (Completed in 2025) – An augmented uncertainty quantification framework for rock engineering: probabilistic application for rock tunnels
• Animesh Anand (Completed in 2025) – Transition in rate-dependent shear response of rock like joints due to clay-infill: strength, dilation, stick-slip and roughness analysis
• Gaurav Meena (Completed in 2024) – Experimental investigation on rate-dependency of acid treated rock joints
• Akshay Kumar (Completed in 2023) – Reliability assessment of deep excavation in spatially random cohesion weakening friction strengthening (CWFS) rock mass
• Sachin Kumar (Completed in 2023) – A high strain rate-dependent damage constitutive model for rocks
• Ajay Kumar (Completed in 2023) – Prediction and global sensitivity analysis of cavern deformations using response surface methodology and sobol’s sensitivity analysis
• Siddhanth Singh (Completed in 2021) – Development of re-sampling reliability approaches for stability analysis of rock slopes
• Manoj Kumar (Completed in 2021) – Development of reliability methods for support estimation to mitigate circular and toppling rock slope failures
• Ankita Senapati (Completed in 2020) – Probabilistic analysis of rock tunnels based on different strength criteria
• Gaurav Mathur (Completed in 2020) – Fracturing of jointed rocks under uniaxial loading
• Abhay Pratap Singh (In progress) – Imprecise global sensitivity analysis of deep excavations along massive rocks
• Sameer Lawankar (In progress; converted to PhD) – Development of probabilistic bonded block model framework to study micro/macro mechanical behaviour and damage processes in rocks
• Yatharth Mittal (In progress) – THMC modelling of rocks for energy storage applications
• Aniket Verma (In progress) – Continuum grain based modelling of rocks: analysis and micro-mechanism
• Akanksha Gupta (In progress) – Random field analysis of rock structure under dynamic loading: application of dynamic hoek-brown criterion
• Shivam Joshi (In progress) – RQD Analysis for rock core images using deep learning