Research Student Supervision
Postdoctoral Research Fellows (7)
Pre-Doctoral Research Fellows (1)
Visiting Research Fellow (1)
* Teacher's Associateship for Research Excellence (TARE) Fellow
Ph. D. Research Scholars (31)
♠ Prime-Minister Research Fellowship, India
* DAAD Fellow (DAAD - Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst), Germany
** DUO-India Student, UK
*** Suzuki Fellowship, Japan
♠♠ UQIDAR Scholar, Australia
♠♠♠ Overseas Visiting Doctoral Fellowship, USA
M. S. (Research) Students (2)
M.Tech. Students (122); * Indicates DAAD Sandwich Model Scholar; ***
Indicates Student Award
* DAAD Fellow (DAAD - Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst)
** Erasmus+ Fellow
*** Best Thesis Award
# BARC Research Fellow
B.Tech. Students (62); * Indicates Student Award
* Institute Best Thesis Award
Summer Undergraduate Research Award (SURA) (6); * Indicates Student Award
* IIT Delhi Alumni Association Award
Foreign National Exchange Student from France
Minor Project / Independent Study Projects (16)
Summer Research Faculty Fellows (9)
* Joint Academies Summer Fellowship Program
Summer Postgraduate Research Fellows (8)
Summer Undergraduate Research Fellows (9)
* Indian Academy of Sciences (IAS) Summer Research Fellowship Program (SRFP)
One-Semester Postgraduate Students (2)
One-Semester Undergraduate Students (6)
Foreign National Student from Afghanistan
Student Awards
Best Thesis
- Innovative student project award of Doctoral level awarded by the Indian National Academy of
Engineering (INAE) to Dr Manmohan Dass Goel for his Ph.D. thesis titled "Blast Response of Structures
and its Mitigation using Advanced Lightweight Materials".
- Best M.Tech. Thesis award awarded by the Indian Society for Wind Engineering (ISWE) to Major Alok Dua
for his M.Tech. Thesis titled "Structural Behaviour of Transmission Lines under Gust Loading".
- Best M.Tech. Thesis, Shri A.N. Dutta Memorial Award in the area of Earthquake Engineering and
Structural Dynamics to Abhilash Achuthan for his M.Tech. Thesis titled "Variable Friction Damper with
Restoring Mechanism for Impulsive Dynamic Excitations".
- B.Tech. Project (BTP), "Reinforced Concrete Building Design for Multi-Hazard Scenarios in Earthquake-
and Wind-Prone Areas" is awarded BOSS Award for best thesis.
- B.Tech. Project (BTP), "Failure of Steel Columns Subjected to Fire" is awarded Mr and Mrs Prem Sheel
Bhatnagar Memorial Award for best thesis.
- B.Tech. Project (BTP), "Analysis of Construction Loads on Slabs with Shored Formwork in Multi-Storey RC
Building Construction" is awarded Mr and Mrs Prem Sheel Bhatnagar Memorial Award for best thesis.
Student Research Grants
- Fast-Track-Projects under Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) Graduate Fellowship Scheme (DGFS) is
awarded to Mr Alok Pradhan with research grant of Rs 4,00,000 (Indian Rupees Four Lakh Only) on the
research project titled "Floor Response Spectra Considering Soil-Structure Interaction for Design of
Secondary Structures" by the Board of Research in Nuclear Sciences (BRNS), Department of Atomic Energy,
Government of India.
- Fast-Track-Projects under Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) Graduate Fellowship Scheme (DGFS) is
awarded to Mr Siddharth Jain with research grant of Rs 3,18,072 (Indian Rupees Three Lakh Eighteen
Thousand Seventy-Two Only) on the research project titled "Seismic Response Control of Benchmark Tall
Building using Magneto-Rheological Damper under Different Earthquake Excitation" by the Board of
Research in Nuclear Sciences (BRNS), Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India.
- A project, "Investigating Seismic Performance of Ellipsoidal Balls for Base Isolation" received an
award a Project Development Grant of Rs 50,000 (Indian Rupees Fifty Thousand Only) for technology
development and transfer by the Alumni Association of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi
(IITDAA).
- Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Department of Science and Technology (DST) has approved
funding for a project, "Novel Passive Electromagnetic Dampers for Vibration Control of Structures" under
the Teacher’s Associateship for Research Excellence (TARE) Scheme with total research grant of Rs
16,80,000 (Indian Rupees Sixteen Lakh Eighty Thousand Only) jointly between Charotar University of
Science and Technology (CHARUSAT), Changa, Gujarat and Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi.
- Industrial Research and Development (IRD) Student Startup Action Grant is awarded to Ms Kusum Saini for
"Agro-Residue-Reinforced Biocomposites Mobile Production for Structures" with a total grant of Rs
2,00,000 (Indian Rupees Two Lakh Only) at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi.
Best Papers
- Mukesh Kumar and Manmohan Dass Goel received the IGS-HEICO Biennial Prize 2017 for the Best Paper
conferred from the Indian Geotechnical Society (IGS) for the best paper on "Rock Mechanics" published in
the Indian Geotechnical Journal (IGJ), "Response of Semi-Buried Structures Subjected to Multiple Blast
Loading Considering Soil-Structures Interaction" for the year 2015-2016.
- Scholarship to Sunita Mishra for impressive and innovative paper "High Strain Rate Characterization of
Himalayan Limestone" from the Indonesia Rock Mechanics Society (IRMS).
- Scholarship Award to Hemant Meena for valuable contribution "Dynamic Characterization of Rocks
Subjected to Intermediate and High Strain Rates" from the Indonesia Rock Mechanics Society (IRMS).
- Said Elias Rahimi received Young Author Best Paper Award in the Structural Engineering Convention 2014
(SEC14) awarded by Springer in December 2014.
- Kusum Saini received the Best Poster Award in the Global Indian (GI) Young Scientists Research and
Innovation (YSRI) Conference in June 2023.
- Yash Chordiya received the Best Paper Award "Response of Aluminum abd CFRP Plates to Successive Blast
Loads" in the theme of the "Blast and Impact" at 13th Structural Engineering Convocation (SEC-2023),
held at Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology (VNIT) Nagpur in December 2023 .
Research Awards and Best Projects
- ‘I2Tech Open House Award 2014’ on the project titled "Using Bamboo and Bricks in Reinforced Concrete
Beams for Sustainability and Economy".
- ‘I2Tech Open House Award 2014 - Special Jury Award’ on the project titled "Seismic Protection of
Structures using Passive Tendon System".
- ‘Summer Undergraduate Research Awards (SURA) - 2015’ on the project titled "Behaviour of Basalt Fiber
Reinforced Polymer (BFRP) Pre-Stressed Concrete Beams".
- ‘Summer Undergraduate Research Awards (SURA) - 2014’ on the project titled "Basalt Fiber Reinforced
Pre-Stressed Concrete Beams".
- ‘Summer Undergraduate Research Awards (SURA) - 2013’ on the project titled "Using Bamboo and Bricks in
Reinforced Concrete Beams for Sustainability and Economy" i.e. "Introduction of New Materials (Bamboo
and Bricks) in Reinforced Concrete Beams to Make Them More Economical and Sustainable".
- ‘Summer Undergraduate Research Awards (SURA) - 2012’ on the project titled "Rubber Pad and Sliding
Surface in Tanks for Failure Prevention - An Experimental Study".
- ‘Summer Undergraduate Research Awards (SURA) - 2010’ on the project titled "Investigating Seismic
Performance of Ellipsoidal Balls for Base Isolation".
- ‘Summer Undergraduate Research Awards (SURA) - 2009’ on the project titled "Feasibility Study of
Offshore Wind Farms along the Indian Coastline for Renewable Source of Alternate Energy".
Academic Exchange Awards
- Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB) - Purdue University Overseas Visiting Doctoral Fellowship
award to Sarranya Banerjee with Professor Dr-Ing Akanshu Sharma, (2023).
- Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD) award to Manmohan Dass Goel for Ph.D. sandwich program
in the Universität der Bundeswehr München (UniBW) with Professor Dr-Ing Steffen Marburg, (2010).
- Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD)-STIBET III award to Sandip Saha for Ph.D. sandwich
program in the Universität der Bundeswehr München (UniBW) with Professor Dr-Ing Steffen Marburg, (2013).
- Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD) award to Kusum Saini for Ph.D. sandwich program in the
Universität Stuttgart with Professor Dr-Ing Akanshu Sharma, (2020).
- Suzuki Foundation Fellowship to Tathagata Roy for one-year research stay at the Toyohashi University of
Technology (TUT) in Japan with Professor Dr Taiki Saito, (2019).
- Suzuki Foundation Fellowship to Sharang Totekar for one-year research stay at the Toyohashi University
of Technology (TUT) in Japan with Professor Dr Taiki Saito, (2020).
- Suzuki Foundation Fellowship to Sarranya Banerjee for one-year research stay at the Toyohashi
University of Technology (TUT) in Japan with Professor Dr Taiki Saito, (2023).
- DUO-India Student Fellowship to Kusum Saini to University of Dundee, UK with Dr Saverio Spadea, 2020.
- Erasmus+ scholarship to Rajnish Kumar Masters Sandwich program in the Technische Universität München
with Dr-Ing Roland Wüchner, (2019).
- Tedesko Scholarship to Supriya Banerjee in the Technische Universität Berlin with Professor Dr Mike
Schlaich, (2022)
- KOSPIE-Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD) award to Avinash Dubey for Masters Sandwich
program in the Technische Universität Braunschweig with Professor Dr-Ing Roland Wüchner, (2023).
- KOSPIE-Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD) award to Kaustav Misra for Masters Sandwich
program in the Technische Universität München with Professor Dr-Ing Steffen Marburg, (2023).
- KOSPIE-Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD) award to Manish Kumar Sah for Masters Sandwich
program in the Technische Universität München with Professor Dr-Ing Steffen Marburg, (2022).
- KOSPIE-Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD) award to Vidushi Toshniwal for Masters Sandwich
program in the Leibniz Universität Hannover with Professor Dr-Ing Martin Achmus, (2021).
- KOSPIE-Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD) award to Ashutosh Maurya for Masters Sandwich
program in the Technische Universität München with Dr-Ing Roland Wüchner, (2020).
- Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD) award to Rohen Singh for Masters Sandwich program in the
Technische Universität München with Professor Dr-Ing Steffen Marburg, (2019).
- Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD) award to Gaurav Swami for Masters Sandwich program in
the Technische Universität Braunschweig with Professor Dr-Ing Bohumil Kasal, (2019).
- Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD) award to Juturu Ajay Reddy for Masters Sandwich program
in the Technische Universität München with Professor Dr-Ing Steffen Marburg, (2018).
- Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD) award to Ranjit Chaudhary for Masters Sandwich program
in the Leibniz Universität Hannover with Professor Dr-Ing Peter Schaumann, (2017).
- Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD) award to Shubham Soni for Masters Sandwich program in
the Universität Stuttgart with Professor Dr-Ing Jan Knippers, (2016).
- Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD) award to Shubham Garg for Masters Sandwich program in
the Technische Universität München with Professor Dr-Ing Steffen Marburg, (2016).
- Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD) award to Prathamesh Khorgade for Masters Sandwich
program in the Technische Universität Darmstadt with Professor Dr-Ing Peter Hagedorn, (2016).
- Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD) award to Syed Ahmed Usama for Masters Sandwich program
in the Technische Universität Berlin with Professor Dr Mike Schlaich, (2015).
- Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD) award to Shashwat Gaur for Masters Sandwich program in
the Technische Universität Braunschweig with Professor Dr-Ing Kalus Thiele, (2015).
- Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD) award to Anil Gautam for Masters Sandwich program in the
Technische Universität München with Professor Dr-Ing Carlo Bottasso, (2015).
- Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD) award to Nikhil Garg for Masters Sandwich program in the
Technische Universität Berlin with Professor Dr Mike Schlaich, (2014).
- Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD) award to Abhilash Achuthan for Masters Sandwich program
in the Technische Universität München with Professor Dr-Ing Gerhard Mueller and Professor Dr-Ing Steffen
Marburg, (2014).
- Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD) award to Deepika Gill for Masters Sandwich program in
the Technische Universität Berlin with Professor Dr-Ing Christian Schroeder, (2014).
- Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD) award to Anoop K. for Masters Sandwich program in the
Technische Universität München with Professor Dr-Ing Fabian Duddeck and Professor Dr-Ing Steffen
Marburg, (2013).
- Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD) award to Sameer Khan for Masters Sandwich program in the
Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen (RWTH Aachen University) with Professor Dr-Ing Benno
Hoffmeister, (2013).
- Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD) award to Nadeem Mohammad for Masters Sandwich program in
the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) with Lothar Stempniewski, (2012).
- Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD) award to S. D. Sukanya for Masters Sandwich program in
the Technische Universität Braunschweig with Professor Dr-Ing Mathias Clobes, (2011).
- Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD) award to Major Alok Dua for Masters Sandwich program in
the Technische Universität Braunschweig with Professor Dr-Ing Mathias Clobes, (2011).
- Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD) award to Rajkumar K. for Masters Sandwich program in the
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) with Lothar Stempniewski, (2010).
- Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD) award to Cibi Jacob for Masters Sandwich program in the
Technische Universität in Dresden (TUD) with Professor Dr-Ing Steffen Marburg, (2009).