Recognition, Honours, Awards & Deputation Abroad

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  International & National Recognition

·         Received an appreciation letter from Prof. J. A. Hudson, Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Rock Mech., Mining Sciences & Geomech. Abstract, Herts, UK for a Technical Note published in the Journal.

·         Invited by Prof. J.J.K. Daemen for attending 35th U.S. Symposium on Rock Mechanics, Lake Tahoe. The Symposium organizers have partially sponsored the visit.

·         Prof. Roberto Ucar, Venezuela has appreciated the doctoral work.

·         Mr. A. Mahtab, Geodata, Italy offered an invitation for the lecture on Q and RMR systems.

·         Prof. M. Zaman, University of Oklahoma and Editor IACMAG published the research brief in the News Magazine published from USA.

·         Co-chaired a Technical Session in the First Asian Rock Mechanics Symposium, Seoul, South Korea.

·         Invited by Sunkyung Engineering Construction Company Ltd. (SKEC), Seoul, Korea for attending the Ist Asian Rock Mechanics Symposium (ARMS), Seoul in Oct., 1997.

·         IBC Asia, Singapore invited for the lecture on "CMRI Experiences with the Q-system" in Second Asian Tunnelling Summit at Kualalumpur on Aug. 25 & 26, 1998.

·         Invited by Prof. Zhao Jian, School of Civil & Structural Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore for discussions on common areas of research and delivering a lecture.

·         Referee, Journal of Geological and Geotechnical Engineering, The Netherlands.

·         Member, Editorial Board Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology Journal, an International Journal of Elsevier Science Ltd.

·         Member, Panel to review papers for World Tunnel Congress 2006 organised in Seoul, Korea and 4^th Asian Rock Mechanics Sympoisum, Singapore.

·         Member Award Selection Committee for the best paper published in the proceeding of 4^th Asian Rock Mechanics Symposium, Singapore.

·         Chaired one Technical Session during 4^th Asian Rock Mechanics Symposium, Singapore in Nov., 2006.

·         Co-chaired Key Note Session in World Tunnel Congress 2007 held at Prague, Czech Republic in May 2007.

·         Member, ISRM Commission on Case Histroies in Rock Engineering (CCHRE).

·         Editor, Journal of Rock Mechanics & Tunnelling Technology (JRMTT) 

·         Research work published in CSIR and CMRI News Magazines

·         Supervisor and Examiner for Masters Theses in Rock Mechanics and Engineering Geology in IIT Roorkee (Earlier University of Roorkee), India

·         Member, Assessment committee of Central Building Research Institute, Roorkee

  Honours & Awards

·         National Mineral Award 2004 for Outstanding Contributions in Engineering Geology by Ministry of Mines, Government of India

·         Shrimati Indira Joshi award for the best paper in 1986 by Indian Geotechnical Society (IGS)

·         CSIR   Golden Jubilee CMRI - Whitaker Annual Award for outstanding achievements in the year 1996.

·         CMRI annual award for the third best Technical paper published in an International Journal between September 1997 and August 1998.

·         Second Khosla annual Research Prize of University of Roorkee (now IIT Roorkee), India for the year 1998

·         First Khosla annual Research Prize of University of Roorkee (now IIT Roorkee), India for the year 1999

·         Research Fellow, NTU Singapore from June 28 to August 22, 1999.

·         IGS Award of Best paper for the year 2003.

  Deputation Abroad

	Place, Country	Duration	Purpose
	Lake Tahoe, USA	June1-10, 1995	35th US Symposium on Rock Mechanics
	Seoul, S. Korea	Oct. 11-18, 1997	First Asian Rock Mechanics Symposium
	Stockholm, Sweden	Oct. 19-26, 1997	Member of Indian delegation to visit Underground Oil and LPG installations
	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	Aug. 24-28, 1998	2nd Asia Tunnelling Summit
	Singapore	Aug. 28-30, 1998	To visit School of Civil & Structural Engineering, NTU
	Singapore	June 28 - Aug. 22, 1999	Visiting Research Fellow in NTU to work on Underground Science City Project
	Ostrava & Prague, Czech Republic	May 7-27, 2001 & March 25, 2004 – April 13, 2004	To work on collaborative project under bilateral program of CSIR and Academy of Sciences of Czech Republic
	Singapore	May 2005	On One months Fellowship under UTRE programme of NTU, Singapore
	Prague, Czech Republic	May 2 - 14, 2007	To work on a collaborative project and to attend World Tunnel Congress

 Supervising Capapcity

·         Supervised and guided Master of Engineering (ME) Thesis, Dept. of Civil Engineering, University of Roorkee on (I) Time - dependent deformation modulus of rocks in tunnels, (II) Strength characteristics of jointed rock mass and (III) Strength of anisotropic rock mass

·         Supervised Master of Technology (M.Tech.) Thesis, Dept. of Earth Sciences, University of Roorkee on "Underground Storage of Oil and its Products near Delhi"

·         Guided students of M.E and M. Tech. of University of Roorkee for their Departmental seminars

·         Guiding one Ph.D. student.