Administrative Responsibilities

Current

• Senate Member, BITS Pilani
• Member, Departmental Level Selection Committee, Department of Civil Engineering, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus
• Member, User Committee for Project Vistaar, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus (Since February 2024)
• Member, Space Audit Committee, BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus (February 2024)
• Member, Academic Council, VNR Vignana Jyothi Institute of Engineering and Technology, Hyderabad, Telangana (Since March 2020)
• BoS Member, Department of Civil Engineering, Rajiv Gandhi Memorial College of Engineering and Technology, Nandyala, Andhra Pradesh (Since October 2021)
• BoS Member, Department of Civil Engineering, Lakireddy Bali Reddy College of Engineering, Mylavaram, Andhra Pradesh (Since May 2022)
• Member, Employee Exit Review/ Retention Committee, SRM University, Andhra Pradesh (Since June 2021)

Past

• Chairperson, Department Level Performance Evaluation Committee (2023-2024), Department of Civil Engineering, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus
• External Expert Member, Faculty Selection Committee, School of Engineering & Sciences, SRM University, Andhra Pradesh (January 09, 2024)
• Member, Interview Panel, Faculty Recruitment, Department of Civil Engineering, Shri Guru Gobind Singhji Institute of Engineering and Technology, Vishnupuri, Nanded, Maharashtra (August 27-28, 2023)
• Committee Member, To Identify Best Faculty for an Award, SRM University, Andhra Pradesh (August 2023)
• Subject Expert, Faculty Recruitment Interview, Department of Civil Engineering, Vasavi College of Engineering, Hyderabad (June 02, 2023 | October 09, 2023)
• Member, Committee to nominate Best Faculty for an Award, NIIT University, Neemrana, Alwar, Rajasthan (November 2022)
• Associate Dean, Academic – Undergraduate Studies, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus (September 2018 – September 2021)
• Chairman, Academic Counseling Board, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus (September 2018 – September 2021)
• Convener, First Degree Teaching Assistantship Committee, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus (September 2018 – September 2021)
• Member of Expert Committee constituted by Government of Telangana to look into the issues related to Intermediate Results in April 2019
• Associate Dean, Instruction Division, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus (Jan 2014 – August 2018)
• Member, Project Lakshya: Team: Programs, Curriculum, Pedagogy and Quality Assurance
• Task Force Member & Leader, Mission 2015: Vision 2020, Team: Quality Assurance & Assessment
• Task Force Member, Mission 2012: Vision 2020, Team: Academic Programs & Pedagogy
• Member, Fact Finding Committee of JNTU Hyderabad to the colleges as per the direction of the Hon’ble Supreme Court for the visit of Self-financing Institution for Grant of Temporary Affiliation for the Academic Year 2014-15
• Head of the Department, Department of Civil Engineering, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus (Oct 2010 to August 2012)
• Faculty In-charge, Educational Hardware Division, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus (August 2009 to January 2011; September 2013 to February 2014)
• Faculty In-charge, Instruction Division, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus (August 2009 to January 2011)
• Faculty In-charge, Maintenance Unit, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus (August 2011 to December 2011)
• Faculty In-charge, Engineering Services Division, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus (August 2008 to July 2009)
• Convener, Works Committee, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus
• Convener, Space Planning Committee, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus
• Chairperson, User Council, Hyderabad Campus Growth Plan Committee, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus
• BoS Member, Madanapalle Institute of Technology and Science, Madanapalle, Andhra Pradesh
• Member, Examination Committee, BITS Pilani
• Member, Academic Governing Committee, BITS Pilani
• Member, Examination Subcommittee, BITS Pilani Hyderabad Campus
• Member, First Degree Merit Scholarship Committee; Merit cum Need Scholarship Committee; Student Aid Fund Committee, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus
• Member, Students Grievances Redressal Committee, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus
• Member, Works Committee, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus
• Member, Student Faculty Committee, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus
• Member, Faculty Induction Committee, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus
• Member, Academic Advisory Council, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus
• Member, Recruitment Committee, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus
• Member, Academic Counseling Board, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus
• Member, 1.08 Committee, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus
• Member, Library Committee, Department of Civil Engineering, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus
• Team Member, Centre for Desert Development Technologies, BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus
• Member, Library Committee, Civil Engineering Group, BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus
• Incharge, Research and Consultancy Activities, Civil Engineering Group, BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus
• Incharge, Civil Engineering Association, BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus
• Incharge, Civil Engineering Association, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus
• Organizing Committee Member for several conferences/ workshops held at BITS, Pilani
• Nucleus Member, Instruction Division, BITS Pilani, Pilani and Hyderabad Campus
• Incharge, Test Scheduling, BITS Pilani, Pilani and Hyderabad Campus
• Incharge, Feedback and Monitoring Cell, BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus
• Executive Member, Staff Association, BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus
• Executive Member, Birla Institutions Community Centre, Pilani
• Program Officer, NSS, BITS Pilani, Pilani and Hyderabad Campus
• Non-Resident Warden, Bhagirath Bhawan, BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus

Contributions during the Administrative Responsibilities Held

• Associate Dean, Academic-Undergraduate Studies Division, BITS-Pilani, Hyderabad Campus (August 2018-September 2021)
  • Defined the responsibilities of the division as the division was formed for the first time at BITS Pilani.
  • Formed a new cell named as “Data Analytics Cell”. Data available with AUGSD has been collated and analyzed program wise. The various data analysed are grades, MGPV, Attendance, Student Feedback Score, CGPA distribution, No. of Registered Students in Projects and Thesis and minor program data. The analysis file is shared with each HoD for the program they are offering in their department. HoDs share and discuss this with their department colleagues for arriving at a few possible meaningful insights from this analysis and plan for new initiatives in their department.
  • Reintroduced the concept of Registration Advisor has been revived from Second Semester 2018-19. All FD students met their Registration Advisors for academic counselling and mentoring on day one before registration. concept of Registration Advisor has been revived from Second Semester 2018-19. All FD students met their Registration Advisors for academic counselling and mentoring on day one before registration.
  • Coordinating with four campuses, the various issues faced by the different stakeholders of ERP student systems has been listed. Regular reviews meeting is scheduled to enhance the performance of ERP planned to carry out the tasks of AUGSD. A lot of manual activities of the division was automated.
  • Specific guidelines booklet framed for the Departmental Committee on Academics (DCA), in implementing various academic functions, i.e., Course Offering and Allocation of Teaching Responsibilities, Academic Advising, Formation of Student Faculty Councils, Midsem Grading, Grade Moderation and Curriculum Changes Procedure besides Review of Course Handouts and Review of Question Paper & Solutions.
  • Designed the new Transcripts, Provisional Certificate and Minor Certificate with branding guidelines and security features at BITS Pilani from January 2020.
  • Managed the academic sessions during Covid Pandemic. Was a part of the team for proposing several changes in the instruction, evaluation, grading etc.
  • Lead a complex and major project “Academic Structure module” that was successfully implemented via ERP after working for 3 years. This module provides a report for each student that guides the student to understand their status of graduation as on date. 
• Chairman, Academic Counseling Board, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus (September 2018 – September 2021)
  • Put a process in place to counsel the ACB students to come out of the purview of ACB. Senior faculty members regularly interact with the students. DCA Conveners have also made a team of faculty in their department to counsel and monitor the progress of ACB students. For special cases, the committee interacted with the parents and made suitable actions.
• Convener, First Degree Teaching Assistantship Committee, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus (September 2018 – September 2021)
  • Automated the process for collection of the forms from students. Defined guidelines for allocating the teaching assistantship.
• Associate Dean, Instruction Division, BITS-Pilani, Hyderabad Campus (January 2014-August 2018)
  • Defined the roles and responsibilities of the staff at ID office so that the time spent by a faculty nucleus member involved in the divisional activities is as minimal as possible.
  • Initiated dedicated cells and encouraged ten faculty members (Assistant Professor & above) to be a part of the nucleus of ID. Delegated the various activities of ID to various cells
  • Initiated the idea of Project Bank in January 2014 during the Project Allotment process, which would contain the list of projects offered by faculty along with the no. of slots available with them. We collect this list of projects faculty plan to offer during the subsequent semester and share the same with students. Later, the students accordingly interact with the respective faculty to apply for Projects. In the last two semesters, we have automated the entire project allotment process.
  • Initiated the concept of Class Committee (year wise) at Hyderabad Campus in September 2014. It is an initiative towards encouraging regular interaction between teachers and students regarding academic matters. The committee will provide feedback about teaching and the performance of students on a regular basis to the corresponding department. The students’ feedback would help the faculty members to take corrective measures as and when required. This would also help in creating environment for providing constructive suggestions both-ways.
  • Working with students to automate many routine activities done at the division
  • We have done a pilot study in a 400 seater classroom for automatic recording of attendance using biometric systems last semester. We were successful in capturing the same and the vendor we hired did a satisfying job. We are also doing another pilot study of automatic recording and distribution of classroom lectures for one classroom. The access to the recorded lectures and other study material would be made available through the current CMS platform to the students. TLC has been requested to study the data analytics on the student usage and efficiency of the system on the overall teaching and learning of these courses.
  • Working closely with TLC to conduct Intensive Teaching Workshop and draft a plagiarism policy for the University.
• Chairperson, User Council, Hyderabad Campus Growth Plan Committee
  • Had conducted several meetings with the HoDs, faculty members and staff members in the community to understand the needs and developed the user requirements for the Growth plan of Hyderabad Campus
  • Participated in several meetings with the Project Team, Architect and negotiation meetings for contractor finalization to initiate the Phase II expansion project
• Task Force Member & Leader, Mission 2015: Vision 2020, Team: Quality Assurance & Assessment
  • Had an opportunity to work as a member and later also as the leader of the task force group. Institutionalized several proposals i.e., Constitution of Student Faculty Council; Establishing Teaching Learning Centre; Introduction of Antiplagiarism software Turnitin in Indian Campuses; Grading of Journals; Revised the student feedback questionnaire and process; Partnered with a company to assess the employer satisfaction levels of our graduates; To conduct outgoing student survey. Also submitted several proposals i.e., Introduction of Teaching Awards; To improve the quality of FD thesis, HD dissertation and PhD Thesis and introduction of student awards.
• Head of the Department, Department of Civil Engineering, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus (Oct 2010 to August 2012)
  • As it was in the initial formative years of construction of Hyderabad Campus, took an active part in the development of various lab infrastructure like identifying the list of instruments to procure, contacting vendors and also setting it up in the labs.
  • Initiated several files for proper documentation of various activities in the department
  • Initiated regular meeting with the faculty and created a conducive atmosphere to frankly share the views and ideas for the growth of the department
• Core Committee Member, Convocation Planning Committee, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus (2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019)
  • Has been a core committee member for organizing all convocations since the first convocation at Hyderabad Campus. It was very challenging initially (for two years) as we did not have the auditorium in place.
• Task Force Member, Mission 2012: Vision 2020, Team: Academic Programs & Pedagogy
  • Had been an active member while conducting discussions/ workshops with HoDs, faculty and students at all campuses while we undertook the process of curriculum redesign in 2011.
• Faculty In-charge, Instruction Division, BITS-Pilani, Hyderabad Campus (August 2009-January 2012)
  • Took charge in 2009 and established the operations based on my experience of working in ID at Pilani Campus
• Faculty In-charge, Educational Hardware Division, BITS-Pilani, Hyderabad Campus (August 2009-January 2011; September 2013-February 2014)
  • Drafted the first purchase policy document during my tenure for Hyderabad Campus.
  • Clearly defined the roles and responsibilities for all staff members and streamlines several operations at the division
• Faculty In-charge, Maintenance Unit, BITS-Pilani, Hyderabad Campus (August 2011-December 2011)
  • It was a great learning opportunity to work with various outsourced staff and streamlines the operation of renewing the contract of various outsources activities by receiving quotations from ISO certified companies
• Faculty In-charge, Engineering Services Division, BITS-Pilani, Hyderabad Campus (August 2008-July 2009)
  • This was my first administrative role at Hyderabad Campus from Day one of the start of the campus.
  • Set up the required infrastructure such as printers, reprography, projectors etc for the smooth functioning of the institute
• Member, Visiting Advisory Committee visits for BITS Pilani
  • Designed the proforma for the document and the visits. Co-ordinated with all departments across campuses to organize the visits of Visiting Advisory Committee for all departments.
  • Had an opportunity to listen to all faculty and students from all departments across campuses while shared their feedback for improvement to the external advisory committee members.
• Member, Departmental Level Selection Committee, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus
  • Played a very active role in shortlisting of applications for faculty recruitment, participating in AV rounds
• Member, Students Grievances Redressal Committee, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus
  • Participate in the discussions whenever we receive grievances from the students
• Member, Student Faculty Committee, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus
• Member, Academic Advisory Council, BITS-Pilani, Hyderabad Campus
• Member, Examination Committee, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus
• Member, Works Committee, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus
  • Actively involved in assessing the bill of quantities prepared for any kind of civil or miscellaneous work that are taken up in the campus. Also negotiate with the contractors and monitor regularly till its completion.
• Volunteer for many other initiatives at Hyderabad Campus like
  • Co-ordinated with several divisions to make presentations (to all HoDs, Deans, Associate Deans and Faculty In-charges) on their standard operating procedures followed at their divisions for possible improvement and information sharing
  • Co-ordinated with all HoDs and Associate Deans for the first round of Campus review
  • Organizing the sports and games as part of community welfare, Ganesh Chaturthi & Durga Pooja celebrations in the community
  • Led several initiatives in construction of the car sheds, interior works in the staff quarters, construction of the TBI and placements area below Library and coordinated with the Project Team during the construction of Auditorium
  • Led and organized several events such as Foundation day celebrations, Abhinandhan (Thanks Giving) as a part of Phase I completion etc
• Member, Recruitment Committee, BITS-Pilani, Hyderabad Campus
  • Headed the recruitment committee in the initial years for Hyderabad Campus on behalf of the Director to recruit faculty members
• Member, Library Committee, Civil Engineering Group, BITS, Pilani
• In-charge, Research and Consultancy Activities, Civil Engineering Group, BITS, Pilani
  • Formulated a proposal in consultation with all faculty members
• In-charge, Civil Engineering Association, BITS, Pilani
• In-charge, Civil Engineering Association, BITS-Pilani, Hyderabad Campus
  • Guided the students to initiate several activities as a part of their association activities
• Organizing Committee Member for several conferences/ workshops held at BITS, Pilani
• In-charge, Test Scheduling, BITS, Pilani
  • Automated a lot of processes at ID by developing customized software with the help of students
• In-charge, Test Scheduling, BITS-Pilani, Hyderabad Campus
• In-charge, Feedback and Monitoring Cell, BITS, Pilani
• Executive Member, Staff Association, BITS, Pilani
• Executive Member, Birla Institutions Community Centre, Pilani
  • Actively participated in several discussions and conducted various sports activities in BICC, Pilani
• Program Officer, NSS, BITS, Pilani
  • Participated and guided students on various NSS activities
• Program Officer & Co-ordinator, NSS, BITS-Pilani, Hyderabad Campus
  • Motivated the students to join NSS at Hyderabad Campus.
  • Initiated few awareness activities
• Non-Resident Warden, Bhagirath Bhawan, BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus
  • Assisted the warden to do routine rounds in the Hostel and interacting with the students at Pilani Campus