Assistant Professor,
Department of Civil Engineering
Application of generalized continuum theories, Computational Mechanics, Laminated composites and Functionally graded materials, Linear and nonlinear finite element analysis, Phase field modeling of damage, structural engineering
Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani Hyderabad Campus Jawahar Nagar, Kapra Mandal Dist.-Medchal-500 078 Telangana, India
DST INSPIRE Faculty fellowship, Government of India, 2021.
Outstanding Potential for Excellence in Research and Academics (OPERA) Award, BITS Pilani, 2020
Awarded JENESYS 2019 fellowship (under Science and Technology theme) by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Government of Japan as part of Japan-East Asia Network of Exchange for Students and Youths cultural exchange program.
Best Paper Award: P. Raghu, A. Rajagopal. Nonlocal Nonlinear Analysis of Composites, International Conference on Physics and Mechanics of New Materials and Their Applications, 14th -16th, October 2017, IIITDM Jabalpur, India.
Excellence in research award by IIT Hyderabad for the year 2017 and 2018.
Achieved 99.63 (All India Rank 337) percentile in Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE), conducted by Government of India, 2014.