Research

Ongoing Research Projects

Title of the Project	Principal Investigator(s)/ Co-Investigator(s)	Grant Agency	Duration&Amount (in Lakhs)
Performance Evaluation of backfill soils partially replaced with building derived materials	Dr. Anasua Guharay and Dr. Arkamitra Kar from BITS Pilani-Hyderabad Campus, Dr. Naveen James from IIT Ropar	DST SERB Early Career Research Grant	3 Years (August 2016-July 2019) (INR 24.43 Lakhs)
Integrated Urban Flood Management in India: Technology-Driven Solutions	Prof. K Srinivasa Raju Prof. P.P.Mujumdar (IISc, Bangalore) Dr. Rominus Valsalam S (CDAC, Thiruvanathapuram) Prof NV Umamahesh, (NIT Warangal)	ITRA	3 Years (November 2013 – October 2016) (INR 27.97 Lakhs)

Completed Sponsored projects

Title of the Project	Principal Investigator	Grant Agency	Duration&Amount (in Lakhs)
Multicriterion Analysis for Ranking of Various General Circulation Models to Study Water Resources of India	Prof. K Srinivasa Raju Prof. D. Nagesh Kumar	CSIR	3 Years (November 2012 - October 2015) (INR 16.22 Lakhs)
Fourier Analysis and Development of Two-Dimensional Finite Element Schemes for Shallow Water Equations and Transport-related Systems	Dr. Jagadeesh Anmala	DST	3 Years (July 2012 - July 2015)(INR 11.00 Lakhs)
Multiobjective Reservoir Optimization Using Swarm Intelligence Algorithms	Dr. A.Vasan	CSIR	3 Years (April 2011-March 2014) (INR 11.17 Lakhs)
Experimental and Numerical Investigations on Sandwiched Modular Multilayer Self Compacted Cement Concrete Pavements	Dr. VR VinayakaRao (PI) Mr. MVN Sivakumar (PI) Dr. A.Vasan (CoI) Mr. M.Venu (CoI)	Aditya Birla Group	2 Years (Oct 2011-Sep 2013) (INR 10.00 Lakhs)
Artificial Neural Networks for Water Resources Planning: An innovative approach	Prof. K.S Raju	INCOH, MOWR	February 2006 to April 2010 (INR 4.6 Lakhs)
Multiobjective Optimization in Irrigation Planning using Evolutionary Algorithms	Prof. K.S Raju	CSIR	November 2006 to November 2009 (INR 6.18 Lakhs)

News

Prof. K Srinivasa Raju, Professor, Civil Engineering Department was chosen as Associate Editor, ISH Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, Taylor & Francis, UK.

Prof. K Srinivasa Raju was awarded S.N.Gupta Memorial Award for Research Contribution to the field of Water Resources Engineering by Indian Society for Hydraulics, India.

Prof. K Srinivasa Raju was given best paper award for the paper entitled Optimal Integrated Water Resources Management for Khadakwasla Complex Reservoir (Session-III), i-Manager International Conference on Engineering and Technologies (IICET-2015), Trivandrum, India, April 11-12, 2015. Co-authors for the paper are D V Morankar and A. Vasan.

Recent Research Grants

Dr. Anasua Guharay and Dr Arkamitra Kar from BITS Pilani-Hyderabad Campus, Dr Naveen James from IIT Ropar were awarded a sponsored project of worth 24,43,710 titled "Performance Evaluation of backfill soils partially replaced with building derived materials" funded by Department of Science and Technology under DST SERB Early Career Research Grant.

Prof. K Srinivasa Raju was awarded Collaborating Sponsored Project “Integrated Urban Flood Management in India: Technology-Driven Solutions”, Information Technology Research Academy (ITRA), Ministry of Communications & Information Technology, Government of India. Collaborating Institutes: Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, C-DAC, Thiruvanathapuram National Institute of Technology, Warangal.

Citation

Prof. K Srinivasa Raju, Professor, Civil Engineering Department was cited in Scholar Google 150 most cited Civil Engineering authors ordered by Scopus h-index.

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