Dr. Syed K. K. Hussaini

		Dr. Syed K. K. Hussaini Asst. Professor Doctor of Philosophy (University of Wollongong, Australia), M.Tech. (IIT Madras) Ph: +91-612-302 8196 hussaini[*AT]iitp.ac.in
Research Areas	:	Rail Track Geotechnology. Cyclic Behavior of Granular Media under High-Frequency Cyclic Loading. The Role of Geosynthetics in Improving the Rail Track Performance. Ground Improvement. Pavement Geotechnics
Other Interests	:	Application of Optical-Fiber Bragg Grating sensing technology in ballasted rail tracks.
Courses taught at IITP	:	Engineering Drawing. Engineering Mechanics Engineering Drawing (Lab) Geomatics Engineering Railway Engineering Geomatics Engineering Laboratory Transportation Engineering Transportation Engineering Laboratory Civil Engineering Design-II Civil Engineering Laboratory-I Infrastructure Engineering Laboratory-II Seminar-I Seminar-II
No. of PhD Students		Kumari Sweta   Md. Hussain Gundavaram Dinesh
M.Tech. Project Guidance		Ms. Raji B (Completed in 2018) Mr. Indramohan (Completed in 2016) Mr. Ravishek (Completed in 2016)
B.Tech. Project Guidance		Mr. Palavalasa Manohar (Completed in 2019) Mr. Sushil Kumar Meena (Completed in 2019) Mr. Ritesh Janardhan Dhongade (Completed in 2018) Mr. Amit Pratap Singh Rajawat (Completed in 2018) Mr. Gaurav Garg (Completed in 2017) Mr. Mallali Sai Shiva Kumar (Completed in 2017)
Awards & Honours		Finalist-Early Career Researchers Competition, Collaborate-Innovate-2012, Organized by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) during the Annual Conference of Cooperative Research Centres Association (An Australian Government Initiative); May 15-17, 2012, Adelaide, Australia. Scholarship for PhD research, Cooperative Research Centre for Rail Innovation, University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia. DAAD scholarship (German Academic Exchange Program), to carry out Masters Dissertation at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany. Fellowship for Post-Graduate studies, Government of India during Master of Technology at Indian Institute of Technology-Madras, India. Won the surveying award in ADSOPHOS-2005, National level technical festival conducted by M J College of Engineering and Technology, Hyderabad, India. Pratibha scholarship and Gold medal, from the Government of Andhra Pradesh.
Member of Professional bodies	:	A.M. American Society of Civil Engineers Member: Indian Geotechnical Society Member: International Geosynthetics Society
Publications	:	Syed K. K. Hussaini and Kumari Sweta. (2019). “Stabilization of Rail Track Substructure using Geogrids”, International Conference on Geotechnics for High Speed Corridors (GHC 2019), 24th-27th July 2019, Thiruvananthapuram, India (pp. 253-257). Kumari Sweta and Syed K. K. Hussaini. (2019). “Performance of Geogrid-Reinforced Railroad Ballast in Direct Shear Mode”, Ground Improvement, (https://doi.org/10.1680/jgrim.18.00107). Dinesh Gundavaram and Syed K. K. Hussaini. (2019). “Polyurethane-based stabilization of railroad ballast–a critical review”, International Journal of Rail Transportation, 7(3) 219-240, (doi: 10.1080/23248378.2019.1570477). Kumari Sweta and Syed K. K. Hussaini. (2019). “Behavior evaluation of geogrid-reinforced ballast-subballast interface under shear condition”, Geotextiles and Geomembranes, 47(1), 23-31. (doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geotexmem.2018.09.002). Kumari Sweta and Syed K. K. Hussaini. (2018). “Behavior of soil fouled ballast-geogrid interfaces at different rates of shearing ”, Indian Geotechnical Conference 2018, 13-15 December 2018, IISc-Bangalore, India, pp. 1-8. Syed K. K. Hussaini., Buddhima Indraratna., and J. S. Vinod (2018). “A Critical Review of the Performance of Geosynthetic-Reinforced Railroad Ballast”, Geotechnical Engineering Journal of the SEAGS & AGSSEA, 49(4), 31-41. Kumari Sweta and Syed K. K. Hussaini. (2018). “Shear behaviour of geosynthetic-reinforced ballast based on large-scale direct shear testing”, In J. Pombo, (Editor): “Fourth International Conference on Railway Technology: Research, Development and Maintenance”, A2.06,3-7 September 2018, Sitges, Barcelona, Spain. Kumari Sweta and Syed K. K. Hussaini. (2018). “Performance evaluation of ballast-subballast interface stabilized with geogrids”, In: Wu W., Yu HS. (Eds.), “Proceedings of China-Europe Conference on Geotechnical Engineering”. Springer Series in Geomechanics and Geoengineering (pp. 1738-1741). Springer, Cham. (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97115-5_182). Kumari Sweta and Syed K. K. Hussaini. (2018). “Effect of shearing rate on the behavior of geogrid-reinforced railroad ballast under direct shear conditions”, Geotextiles and Geomembranes, 46(3), 251-256. (doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geotexmem.2017.12.001). Kumari Sweta and Syed K. K. Hussaini. (2017). “Behavior of Geogrid-Reinforced Railroad Ballast in Direct Shear Conditions”, Indian Geotechnical Conference 2017 GeoNEst, 14-16 December 2017, IIT Guwahati, India, pp. 1-4. Syed K. K. Hussaini., Indraratna, B., Vinod, J.S. (2016). “A laboratory investigation to assess the functioning of railway ballast with and without geogrids”, Transportation Geotechnics, 6, 45-54. (doi:10.1016/j.trgeo.2016.02.001). Syed K. K. Hussaini., Indraratna, B., and Vinod, Jayan S. (2015). “Application of Optical-Fiber Bragg Grating Sensors in Monitoring the Rail Track Deformations”, Geotechnical Testing Journal, ASTM, 38(4), pp.387-396. (doi: 10.1520/GTJ20140123. ISSN 0149-6115). Syed K. K. Hussaini., Indraratna, B., Jayan S. Vinod. (2015). "Performance assessment of geogrid-reinforced railroad ballast during cyclic loading", Transportation Geotechnics, Volume 2, March 2015:99–107. (doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.trgeo.2014.11.002). Syed K. K. Hussaini., Indraratna, B., J.S. Vinod. (2014). "An Experimental Investigation on the Deformation and Degradation Behaviour of Geogrid-Reinforced Ballast", In J. Pombo, (Editor): "Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Railway Technology: Research, Development and Maintenance", Civil-Comp Press, Stirlingshire, UK, Paper 125, 2014. doi:10.4203/ccp.104.125 Indraratna, B., Syed K. K. Hussaini., and Vinod, J. S. (2013). “The lateral displacement response of geogrid-reinforced ballast under cyclic loading”, Geotextiles and Geomembranes, 39, 20-29. Syed K. K. Hussaini., Indraratna, B., and J. S. Vinod (2013). “Some aspects of the shear behaviour of unreinforced and geosynthetic-reinforced rail ballast”, International Conference on Ground Improvement and Ground Control: Transport Infrastructure Development and Natural Hazards Mitigation, (pp. 889-894). Singapore: Research Publishing. Syed K. K. Hussaini., Indraratna, B., and J. S. Vinod (2012). “Performance of geosynthetically-reinforced ballast in direct shear conditions”, In G. A. Narsilio, A. Arulrajah & J. Kodikara (Eds.), 11th Australia-New Zealand Conference on Geomechanics: Ground engineering in a Changing World (pp. 1268-1273). Australia: Engineers Australia. Indraratna, B., Syed K. K. Hussaini., and Vinod, J. S. (2012). “On the shear behaviour of ballast-geosynthetic interfaces”, Geotechnical Testing Journal, ASTM, 35 (2), 305-312.
Institute/Departmental Responsibilities at IIT Patna	:	Institute B. Tech. Coordinator (Jan. 2016-Mar. 2017). Invited Member: Institute Academic Programme Committee (IAPC) (Jan. 2016-Mar. 2017). Member: Departmental Academic Programme Committee (DAPC) (Jan. 2016-till date). Member: Departmental Purchase Committee (DPC) (Oct. 2014-till date). Member: Institute Time Table Committee (Jan. 2014-till date). Member: Institute Computer Purchase Committee (Jan. 2014-till date). Departmental Website Coordinator (Jan. 2014-till date). Departmental M.Tech. Coordinator (2014 and 2015). In-Charge: Railway Engineering Laboratory (Since Est.). In-Charge: Geomatics Engineering Laboratory (Since Est.). In-Charge: Transportation Engineering Laboratory (Since Est.)
Invited Talks	:	6th November, 2018: “An Overview of Indian Railways: Challenges and Way Ahead”, Establishment Day Function of the Bihar State Disaster Management Authority, Government of Bihar, India.
Other Information	:	Reviewer: 7th Indian Young Geotechnical Engineers Conference, 2019 Reviewer: Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers-Ground Improvement. Reviewer: International Journal of Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering (IJGEE). Reviewer: International Journal of Geosynthetics and Ground Engineering (IGGE). Reviewer: Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering Reviewer: Indian Geotechnical Journal Reviewer: Indian Geotechnical Conference 2017