Conferences/Workshops Organized

1. Coordinator of the Faculty Development Programme (FDP), title "Sustainability in Civil Engineering" under "AICTE Training and Learning (ATAL) Academies", All India Council for Technical Education, New Delhi from 14th November to 24th November 2022.
2. One of the Organizing Members of a National Online Lecture Series on “Sustainability in Civil Engineering” held at BITS, Pilani, 18^th September 2021.
3. One of the Organizing Members of an International Webinar on “Smart Cities – Beyond Pandemics” held at BITS, Pilani, 10-11^th July 2020.
4. One of the Organizing Secretaries of the Second International Conference on “Advances in Concrete, Structural and Geotechnical Engineering-2018” held at BITS, Pilani, 26-28^th February 2018. 
5.  One of the coordinators of the National workshop on “Structural Health Monitoring and Rehabilitation - 2012” held at BITS, Pilani, 19-20th September, 2012. 
6. Organizing Secretary of the International Conference on “Advances in Concrete, Structural and Geotechnical Engineering-2009” held at BITS, Pilani, 25-27^th October, 2009. 

Invited Lectures 

1. Delivered an Invited Lecture on "Seismic Behaviour of Coupled Shear Walls and Performance Based Design" in the AGM of ICI Kolkata centre organized by the Department of Construction Engineering, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, 29^th July, 2022.

2. Delivered an Invited Lecture on " Performance Based Seismic Design of Coupled Shear Walls" in the online FDP ("Recent Advances in Structural Engineering (RASE - 2022)") organized by the Department of Civil Engineering Department of Civil Engineering, Hindustan Institute of Technology and Science (HITS), Chennai, 20^th – 24^th June, 2022. 

3. Delivered an Invited Lecture on "Seismic Behavior of Coupled Shear Walls" in the online FDP ("Modelling & Seismic Analysis of Reinforced Concrete Buildings") organized by the Department of Civil Engineering and E&ICT Academy of NIT Warangal, 21^st – 31^st March, 2022. 

4. Delivered an Invited Lecture on "Sustainable Construction Materials in Civil Engineering" in the Concrete Day Celebration, Indian Concrete Institute-Midnapore Chapter and Ultratech Cements, Kharagpur, 19^th November, 2021. 

5. Delivered a Key-Note Lecture on " Seismic Design of Structures: An Overview and Performance Based Seismic Design" in the AICTE ATAL Sponsored FDP on Earthquake Resistant Structural Systems and Design for Buildings and Structures, Civil Engineering Department, Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering, Sriperumbudur, 7^th – 11^th June, 2021. 

6. Delivered an Invited Lecture on "Ph.D Guidelines and Tips" in the International Research Internship 2020, Manuscriptpedia, 2^nd July, 2020. 

7. Delivered an Invited Lecture on "A Review on Sustainable Utilization of Industrial Wastes in Radiation Shielding Concrete" in the 3^rd International conference on Clean and Sustainable Development (ITCSD2020), Civil Engineering Department, NITTTR, Chandigarh, 19^th – 21^st February, 2020. 

8. Delivered an Invited Lecture on "Seismic Design of Structures: An Overview" in the Workshop Moments, Civil Engineering Association, NIT Trichy-620015 on 17^th March, 2018. 

9. Delivered a Lecture on "A Study on the Behaviour of Coupled Shear Walls" in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, TCD Dublin, Ireland, 19th June 2014 (Invited Lecture). 

10. Delivered a Guest Lecture on "Residual Life Assessment of Industrial Structures" in the LEO Workshop Organized by Bokaro Steel Plant (SAIL), Bokaro, 16-17th July 2013. 

11. Delivered a Lecture on "Investigation into the Behavior of Coupling Beams" in the TE-QIP Workshop Organized by Civil Engineering Department, VNIT Nagpur, 22-23th March 2013 (Invited Lecture). 

12. Invited Lecture on "A Systematic Design Approach of Coupled Shear Walls" in the Workshop Organized by Civil Engineering Department, IT BHU, 3-4th March 2012.

Activities as Reviewer 

1. Acted as one of the reviewer for Curie Journal, BITS Pilani. 

2. Reviewer of the book “Engineering Mechanics” published by Pearson Education and “Life Cycle Ecological Footprint of Buildings” by Springer Nature. 

3. Acted as a reviewer in various journals and book chapters under Taylor & Francis Group and Techno-Press, Indian Concrete Journal, Elsevier, Institute of Engineers, Springer, ASCE etc. 

Activities as Scientific/Technical Committee Member/Session Chair 

1. One of the Committee Members in the online F-EIR Conference 2021 - Environment Concerns and its Remediation, Chandigarh , 18-22^nd October, 2021. 

2. One of the Scientific and Technical Committee Members in the 3^rd ITCSD conference, NITTTR Chandigarh, 19-21st February, 2020. 

3. Session Chair in three sessions in the 3^rd ITCSD conference, NITTTR Chandigarh, 19-21st February, 2020. 

4. One of the Members in Technical Program Committee in the Architecture and Civil Engineering Conference (ACE-2018), Singapore, 2018. 

Attended and Presented at Conferences/Workshops 

1. Attended Second International Conference on Construction Materials and Structures (ICCMS 2022) (virtual mode), NIT Calicut, December 14-18, 2022.
2. Participated as one of the coordinators in the Q & A session in one of the invited lectures on 500th lecture on "Challenges in Design & Construction of World’s Tallest Rail Bridge” by of Er. Saibaba Ankala, (Cheif Ex-Engineer, Indian Railways, June 2021. 
3. Gaurav Tyagi, Anupam Singhal, Srikanta Routroy, and Dipendu Bhunia, “A critical review on the utilization of Electric Arc Furnace Slag: Application, Challenges and Prospects”, 2nd CRSIDE (ASCE) conference (Attended and Presented), Kolkata India, 2-4^th March, 2020. 
4. Gaurav Tyagi, Anupam Singhal, Srikanta Routroy, Dipendu Bhunia, Mukund Lahoti and Veluri Sai Manish, “A Review on Sustainable Utilization of Industrial Wastes in Radiation Shielding Concrete”, 3^rd ITCSD conference (Attended and Presented), NITTTR Chandigarh, 19-21st February, 2020. 
5. S. Hussain, D. Bhunia and S.B.Singh, “Influence of curing duration on accelerated carbonation of concrete and the uncertainties in its measurement”, 14th International Conference on Concrete Engineering and Technology 2018 (CONCET2018) (Attended and Presented), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 7-10^th August, 2018. 
6. Attended and participated an International Conference on "Civil Engineering Conference in the Asian Region (CECAR7)" at Hawaii from 30.08.2016 to 02.09.2016 through DST overhead and Institute Special Contingency grant. 
7. Attended interdisciplinary research workshop organized by BITS Pilani held at Hyderabad Campus in the month of November, 2015. 
8. Attended and presented a paper entitled “EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF THE EFFECT OF  CARBONATION ON PROPERTIES OF PLAIN CONCRETE”, Eighth International Conference on Construction in the 21st Century (CITC-8) “Changing the Field: Recent Developments for the Future of Engineering and Construction” May 27-30, 2015, Thessaloniki, Greece through Institute Special Contingency grant. 
9. Attended and presented a paper entitled “Investigation on the Behavior of Conventional Reinforced Coupling Beams”, International Conference on Construction and Civil Engineering (ICCCE-2013), 24-25th December, Bangkok Thailand through DST Travel grant. 
10. Attended and presented a paper entitled “A Study on Effect of Carbonation on the Properties of Concrete”, UKIERI Congress-2013, NIT Jalandhar, 5-8th March 2013 through Institute Contingency grant. 
11. Participated in the Workshop on Technology Entrepreneurship for Faculty from 23-24th November, 2007. 

Expert Member in the Govt./Pvt. Sector

1.      Acted as one of the expert members in Civil Engineering from BITS Pilani in Rajasthan Public Service Commission (RPSC), Ajmer, 2019.      

 Warden/Member in the Institute 

1.    Acted as a Warden of Ram Bhawan from 21.11.2014 to 31.08.2022.

2.      Acted as a Warden of Budh Bhawan from 21.11.2014 to 31.12.2014 and Malviya Extension from 21.11.2014 to 31.07.2017.

Officer-in-Charge/Professor-In-Charge/Coordinators/Members in the Civil Engg Dept. 

2.   Acted as an Officer-in-Charge in the Structural Engineering Laboratory and Concrete Engineering   Laboratory (2012 to Till Date). 

3.      Acted as an Officer-in-Charge in the R&D Consultancy Activities such as Safe Bearing Capacity of Soils, Concrete Cube Tests, Safety checking, Design of elevated water tank etc. of the Civil Engineering Department, BITS Pilani (2009 to 2012). 

4.      Appointed as Professor-In-Charge in Civil Engineering Association (2010-2015). 

5.    Involved as an expert member in the Professional Practice-I (Higher Degree Programme) at BITS, Pilani, (2008 to 2009).

8.   Involvement as coordinator in Civil Engineering Department in preparation of National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) documents for the Academic Year of 2010-11 to 2014 -15. 

9.   Involvement in curriculum design in structural engineering subjects at both undergraduate level and post graduate level, (Continuous Process whenever Reqd.). 

10.    Involved as one of the members in Student Faculty Council (SFC) & Departmental Committee on Academics (DCA) in the Civil Engg Dept., (2016-2018). 

Activities related to Practice School Division/Work-Integrated Learning Centre/BITSAT Duty at the Institute 

1. BITSAT duty at Aurangabad in the year 2022.
2. Evaluated Practice School-II reports and Master’s Thesis. 
3. 2.   Appointed as one of the Practice School-I’s Instructors in CBRI Roorkee 2008, IIP Dehradun 2008, Grasim Harihar 2010, NCCL Amreli 2011, Rourkela Steel Plant Orissa 2016, Kotputli Ultratech Cement Jaipur 2017, HBCSE Mumbai 2017, AERB Mumbai 2017, HPCL Mumbai 2017, VECC Kolkata 2018, DPSME Kolkata 2018, Irrigation and waterways Kolkata 2018, Quant-one Kolkata 2018, Aditya Birla Insulator Hooghly 2018, Gujarat Cement Kovaya 2021, Aditya Cement Works 2021, Vikram Cements 2021, Instrumentation Solution Civil 2021, Rajshree Cement 2021 and Road & Building Department Telengana 2021. 
4. Acted as one of the invigilators for distance learning programme in NTPC, Kahalgaon 2009 and Gujarat Cement Works, Kovaya 2011. 
5. Deputed at NCCL, Amreli Gujarat during summer vacation 2011 for familiarization with cement industry. 
6. Acted as an external examiner in Practice School-2. 
7. Helped to open a new PS-1 station at Irrigation and waterways department, Kolkata, West Bengal in the year of 2016. 
8. Appointed as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) in PS1 program at Gurgaon, Faridabad, Lucknow, Jaipur, Roorkee, Damanjodi, Kolkata and Guwahati, 2019. 
9. BITSAT duty at Lucknow in the year 2013.