Numerical Modelling Man Power
Dr. Sripad R Naik
Scientist-V & Head of Department
Dr. Sripad R Naik is a graduate in Mining Engineering from NIT, Surathkal in 1990 and acquired his Masters from IT-BHU. He completed PhD from NIT, Surathkal in November 2017. Dr. Sripad joined NIRM in the year 1992 and presently he is Head, Numerical Modelling Department. He has expertise in numerical modelling and instrumentation in the areas of mining and civil engineering. He has worked on many challenging problems in the area of hydroelectric projects, coal mine method of working, instrumentation and subsidence modelling. Substantial experience in sophisticated research techniques and technologies, particularly in the area of 3D modeling of underground structures, slopes. Expert in planning, design and execution of geotechnical instrumentation work for mining and hydroelectric projects. He has published more than 35 technical papers in journals, national and international conferences.
Dr. B H Vijay Sekar
Scientist-III
Mr. B H Vijay Sekar is a graduate in Civil Engineering from V.R.Siddhartha Engg. College and obtained his M.Tech in Rock Engineering & Underground Structures from IIT, Delhi in 2008. He joined NIRM in July 2013, prior to joining NIRM he worked with Lahmeyer International India Pvt. Ltd. from 2008 to 2013. He has experience in the areas of slope stability problems, design and analysis of underground caverns, tunnels and shafts by using advanced numerical tools. Presently he is involved in the design of large underground caverns using FLAC3D software and instrumentation of hydroelectric projects.
Mrs. Praveena Das Jennifer
Scientist-III
Mrs Praveena Das Jennifer is a Civil engineer, BE (Civil Engg) degree in 2007 with a Master’s degree in 2015 from Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU), Belgaum. She was with IIT, Chennai as Project Associate before joining NIRM as Scientist-I in 2008. She has worked as co-investigator in 28 industry sponsored laboratory geotechnical investigation projects in Rock Fracture Mechanics (RFM) Laboratory and carried out several soil investigation studies for various mines. Since 2013, she has been involved in seismological data processing and done research work on seismic hazard due to shallow seismic events in pursuit of Ph.D. degree at Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT), Vellore. She is currently Scientist-III, working in Numerical Modelling Department. She has one publication each in a national journal and an international conference as author and as co-author in 3 national and international conferences. She currently holds membership of International Society of Rock Mechanics (ISRM) and Institution of Engineers India (IEI).
Mr. K Sudhakar
Scientist-II
Mr. K. Sudhakar is Diploma holder in Electronics & Communication Engineering (1990) and joined NIRM in April 1992 as Research Assistant after serving two years in private industry. Later he acquired Diploma in Industrial Automation in 2006 and completed his graduation in Civil Engineering from Institution of Engineers (India) in 2016. He is currently working as Scientist-II. During this period he worked in various Coal S&T projects and industry sponsored projects for development of instruments for coal mines (CSMS, RST and Micro Seismic Systems) and Geotechnical Instrumentation for major hydroelectric projects in India at Sardar Sarovar, Nathpa Jhakri Projects and at Tala Hydro project in Bhutan. He is Currently working on geotechnical instrumentation works at various projects.