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GUEST / INVITED TALKS

  • “Recent R&D in the Field of Ocean Engineering” AICTE Sponsored STTP ON forum of nurturing clean-water and green-waste, Phase-I, online talk on 25 Aug 2020, KSR College of Engineering, Tiruchengode.
  • “Marine infrastructure projects: Engineering studies & Case histories”, Online lecture to Engineers, Andaman Lakshadeep Habour Works (ALHW), online talk on 17 Jul 2020, Portblair and other Islands.
  • “Conditional Assessment of Marine Concrete Structures & Case Studies”, AICTE Sponsored online STTP on Structural health monitoring and Seismic protection of structure and infrastructure system (Phase-I), online talk on 07 July 2020, Bannari Amman Institute of Technology, Sathyamangalam.
  • “Application of Remote Sensing in Ocean Engineering”, AICTE funded Faculty Development Programme (FDP) on Applications of GPS and Remote Sensing in Civil Engineering, during 06-18th Jan 2020, Sardar Patel College Of Engineering (SPCE), Mumbai.
  • “Tidal hydrodynamics and case studies”, Faculty Development Programme on ‘Interaction of coastal development with coastal processes -its highlights and challenges, December 09-14, 2019, NIT Calicut.
  • “R&D in Marine and Coastal infrastructure development:”, Dept. of Civil Engg., NMIMS, Mumbai, 07 Sep 2019.
  • “Marine and Coastal infrastructure development: Research and Industry projects”, Architects and Engineers Association, Nashik, 05 Sep 2019.
  • “Marine and Coastal infrastructure development: Research and Industry projects”, Dept. of Civil Engg., Sri Ramakrishna Engineering College, Coimbatore, 30 Aug 2019.
  • Member of Panel discussions on “Emerging trends and synergies in Inland waterways”, SMP (Shipping, Marine & Ports)-Inland waterways world conference, CIDCO Exhibition centre, Navi Mumbai, 21 Feb 2018.
  • “Ocean Engineering at IIT Bombay, India-Research & Developments”, Invited talk in Department of Civil Engineering, Chung Yuan Christian University, Zhongli District, Taoyuan City, Taiwan, 27 Oct 2017.
  • “Capturing nearshore dynamics:- A five institution joint-exercise along Indian coastline”, Invited talk in 7th Workshop on the Monitoring and Forecasting Technologies of Marine Hazards and Environments, held at National Penghu University of Science and Technology, Taiwan, October 24-25, 2017.
  • “Coastal erosion, protection and monitoring along the south Gujarat coastline”, Invited talk on the theme Coastal erosion, National Symposium on Climate change and coastal vulnerability (TROPMET-2016), 18-21 Dec 2016, SOA Univ., Bhubaneswar, Odhisa.
  • “Response of beach to seawall based erosion protection measures”, Invited talk, Pre-conference Seminar on Climate Resilient Coastal Protection and Management, CWPRS, Pune, December 7, 2016.
  • “Tides and hydrodynamics”, one‐day workshop on “Coastal Hydrodynamics and Modelling” under TEQIP‐II, 07 Oct 2016, NIT Suratkal, Karnataka.
  • “Tidal Power Potential along Gulf Of Khamabhat, West Coast Of India”, Indo-Australian Marine Renewable Energy Workshop, 4-5 April 2016, IIT Madras.
  • “Siltation dynamics of navigational channel and harbour basin - A case study:, 4th International Conference on Ship and Offshore Technology (ICSOT India 2015), jointly organized by The Royal Institution of Naval Architects (RINA) and the Department of Ocean Engineering & Naval Architecture, IIT Kharagpur. at IIT Kharagpur, 10 - 11 Dec 2015.
  • “Modeling of Coastal Hydrodynamics & Application of INCOIS data/information”, User Interaction Workshop held at Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS), Hyderabad, 03 Mar 2015.
  • “Ocean Engineering at IIT Bombay, India”, Dept of Water resources and environmental engineering, Tamkang University, July 14, 2014, New Taipei city, Taiwan.
  • “Modelling of coastal processes”, MHRD-TEQIP-KIT Workshop on Ocean And Atmospheric Sciences –Current Trends, July 18-19, 2014, IIT Bombay.
  • “Coastal / Ocean Engineering: Research and Education” and “Physical and numerical modeling of coastal processes”, IITB-Monash Symposium, Monash University and CSIRO, Mar 4-7, 2014, Melbourne.
  • “Coastal Hydraulics Experiments: Facilities, Methods & Analysis, Center of Excellence meet, 28 Dec 2013, SVNIT, Surat.
  • “Analysis of ocean wave time series”, QIP/CEP Short term course on “Soft Computing Techniques in Hydrologic Time Series Modeling”, at IIT Bombay, 11-15 Nov, 2013.
  • “Wave-structure interaction: Beyond regular and random waves”, Workshop on “Offshore Structural Engineering: Recent Developments, Challenges & Opportunities" at NIT Durgapur, 25-29 Sep 2013.
  • “Wave-structure interaction”, Workshop on offshore structures & SACS applications, 2nd April 2013, IIT Bombay, Mumbai.
  • “Effect of SLR on tidal hydrodynamics", NIO-IITB Joint workshop, 7-8 March 2013, NIO, Goa.
  • “Tidal hydrodynamics”, National workshop on ICZM, Dept. of Ocean Engineering, IIT Madras, 16-17, July 2012.
  • “Tidal hydrodynamics: Introduction and Case studies”, National workshop on water waves and floating bodies, Dept. of Ocean Engineering and Naval Architecture, IIT Kharagpur, 25-26, Nov, 2011.
  • “Role of Civil Engineer in Coastal and Marine Developments”, Department of Civil Engineering, Kalasalingam University, Krishnankoil, TamilNadu, India, Oct’09.
  • “Coastal Engineering Today: A Civil Engineer’s Perspective” School of Mechanical and Building Sciences, Vellore Institute of Technology University, Vellore, India, Oct’09.
  • “An Introduction to Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering”, Dept. of Civil Engineering, Manjammal Polytechnic, Rajapalayam, TamilNadu, India, May’08.