Team Members

Research Scholars

Abid (Joined in July 2024)

Tentative topic: Yet to be decided

Prajnadeep Karna (Joined in December 2023)

Tentative topic: Yet to be decided

Aman Alok (Joined in December 2022) 

Tentative topic: Yet to be decided

Abhileen Chatterjee (Joined in December 2022)

Tentative topic: Assessment of ground motion scenario in the Central Himalayan Seismic Gap

Jenny Laura RVS (Joined in December 2021) 

Tentative topic: Local site effect assessment of North Bihar, India

Sudeepta Malakar (Joined in July 2020) jointly with Dr Anil K. Mishra

Tentative topic: Yet to be decided

Hrik Chaudhury (Joined in July 2020) jointly with Dr Rishikesh Bharti 

Tentative topic: Identification of liquefaction susceptible zones if Northeast India using geospatial technology

Surender Singh (Jan 2019-Jul 2024) jointly with Prof T. G. Sitharam

Thesis Title: Exploring the stability of tailing pond embankments and stabilization of tailing materials through alkali activation for various field applications (Successfully defended in July 2024)

Abhishek Kamishetty (July 2018-September 2024) jointly with Dr Indu S. G. Ranjani as Main Supervisor

Thesis Title: Studies on the influence of admixtures on the permeation and mechanical characteristics of Foam Concrete for use in light weight interlocking blocks (Successfully defended in September 2024)

Niranjan Borah (July 2018-April 2024)

Thesis Title: Development of Seismic Source Zonation maps, Seismic hazard maps (using multiple approaches) and GMPEs for North East India (Successfully defended in April 2024)

Dr. Joy Kumar Mondal (Jan 2018-June 2023)

Thesis Title: Development of Methodologies to Quantify Inputs of Local Site Effect Assessment During Earthquakes (Successfully defended in July 2023)

Dr. Harinarayan N H (Jan 2015-July 2020)

Thesis Title: Ground Motion Prediction Equation for parts of North India (Successfully defended in July 2020)

Dr. Olympa Baro (August 2014-September 2018)

Thesis Title: Estimating regional and local parameters controlling the seismic Hazard scenario of the Shillong Plateau (Successfully defended in September 2018) (Currently Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering, NIT Silchar since July 2019)

M.Tech Students

Misbahul Khan 

Tentative Project Title: Stability analysis of Typical tailing pond (Joined in July, 2024)

Dasari Nithin 

Tentative Project Title: Extrapolation of soil stiffness to deeper medium (joined in July 2024)

Arun Siva R 

Project Title: Impact of low frequency content on local site effect (successfully completed in June, 2021)

Tharunkumar K. 

Project Title: Development of Landslide hazard zonation map for the part of Tawang, Arunachal Pradesh using GIS (successfully completed in June, 2021)

Vineet Gajamer 

Project Title: Forensic investigation of a typical landslide in Paglajhoda region of Darjeeling, West Bengal (successfully completed in June, 2021), Currently PhD student at IIT Bombay

Amit Das (Jointly with Prof S. Sreedeep)

Project Title: Effect of Joint conditions on the development of Fragility Curves for Tunnels, in rocky medijm (successfully completed in June, 2020)

Argha Biswas

Project Title: Assessment of In-situ Liquefaction in terms of regional correlations, applicable to NE India, (successfully completed in June, 2020), (Currently PhD student at Civil Engineering, IIT Roorkee)

Sujata Das

Project Title: Numerical medelling of excavations along the Guwahati-Shillong Road in Guwahati, India using Plaxis 2D (successfully completed in June, 2019)

Avinash Kumar

Project Title: Seismic Hazard Analysis of Lucknow, India using Zoneless Approach (successfully completed in June, 2019)

Suman Haldar

Project Title: Determination of Design Response Spectra and Site Coefficients for Guwahati urban Center based on thorough Ground response analyses, (successfully completed in June 2018)

Safik Khan

Project Title: Identification of Possible Liquefaction Zones across Guwahati and targets for ground improvement ascertaining no further Liquefaction (successfully completed in July 2018)

Saurabh Anand

Project Title: Subsurface exploration based on Geotechnical and geophysical tests for seismic site classification and correltion between SPT-N and SWV for Guwahati, (successfully completed in June 2017)

Joy Kumar Mondal

Project Title: Forward and Inverse equivalent linear ground response analysis: Understanding and Applications, (successfully completed in June 2016)

Soham Banerjee

Project Title: Medium characterization of selective Indian regions adjacent to the western Himalayas, based on seismic wave attenuation, (successfully completed in July 2016), (Presently at University of Vermont, USA for PhD)

B. Tech Students

Prashant Singh

Project Title: Identification of Potentially liquefiable zones of North East India using Remote Sensing and GIS approach (successfully completed in June 2020) 

Rajat Dhanotiya

Project Title: Seismic Source zonation of Northeast India on the basis of seismicity parameters (successfully completed in June 2020) 

Vaibhav Narwal

Project Title:Development of GUI for Equivalent linear Ground Response Analysis in Matlab (successfully completed in June 2020)

B Srinivas Vivek

Project Title: Easy to use empirical correlations for Liquefaction and No Liquefaction conditions (successfully completed in May 2017) (Presently at University of Hong Kong for MS)

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Project Title: Development of experimental setup for liquefaction demonstration (successfully completed in May 2016)

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Project Title: Earthquake induced damage to roads, (successfully completed in May 2016)

Jitendra Singh Meena

Project Title: In-Direct Determination of SPT N-Value, (successfully completed in May 2015)

Narayan Lal Meena

Project Title: Subsoil Lithological Details of Guwahati and its Response During Earthquakes, (Successfully completed in May 2015)