Professional Background

• Senior Scientist, CSIR – Structural Engineering Research Centre Chennai, Nov 2015 - till date
• Scientist, CSIR – Structural Engineering Research Centre Chennai, 2011 - Oct 2015
• Quick Hire Scientist (Trainee),CSIR – Structural Engineering Research Centre Chennai, 2009-2011
• Fulbright Visiting Research Scholar, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA, 2013-2014

Areas of Scientific Interest

• Structural dynamics (Hybrid simulation)
• Multi-criteria decision making (MCDM)
• Low-velocity impact

Awards & Honours

Awards

• Awarded Fulbright-Nehru Doctoral and Professional Research Fellowship 2013-14.
• First prize (Technical), Paper Presentation Contest organized during APOGEE 2008 Rajasthan, India.
• Jindal Jubilee Gold Medal for the best outgoing student awarded for the creditable performance in academics and co-curricular activities, 2004, Delhi, India
• Certificate of merit by C.B.S.E., outstanding academic performance in Physics (top 0.01 %), 2004, Delhi, India

Recognitions

• Reviewer of Engineering of Structures and Experimental Techniques.

Membership Professional bodies

• Associate member of The Institution of Engineers (India)
• Life member of The Indian Association for Computational Mechanics (IndACM)

Foreign exposure  

• Visited University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA under Fulbright-Nehru Doctoral and Professional Research Fellowship 2013-14
• Visited Seoul, South Korea to present a paper in 2011 World Congress on Advances in Structural Engineering and Mechanics.

Publications

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International

• Prem, P. R., Verma, M., Murthy, A. R., Rajasankar, J, Bharatkumar, B. H. (2017). Numerical and theoretical modelling of low velocity impact on Ultra high performance concrete panels. Structural Engineering and Mechanics. (Accepted)
• Verma, M., & Rajasankar, J. (2017). A thermodynamical approach towards group multi-criteria decision making (GMCDM) and its application to human resource selection. Applied Soft Computing, 52, 323-332.
• Verma, M., Prem, P. R., Rajasankar, J., & Bharatkumar, B. H. (2016). On low-energy impact response of ultra-high performance concrete (UHPC) panels. Materials & Design, 92, 853-865.
• Verma, M., Thirumalaiselvi, A., & Rajasankar, J. (2016). Kernel-based models for prediction of cement compressive strength. Neural Computing and Applications, doi:.10.1007/s00521-016-2419-0.
• Verma, M., Rajasankar, J., Anandavalli, N., Prakash, A., & Iyer, N. R. (2015). Fuzzy Similarity Approach for Ranking and Health Assessment of Towers Based on Visual Inspection. Advances in Structural Engineering, 18(9), 1399-1414.
• Verma, M., Rajasankar, J., & Iyer, N. R. (2015). Numerical assessment of step-by-step integration methods in the paradigm of real-time hybrid testing. Earthquakes and Structures, 8(6), 1325-1348.
• Verma, M., Rajasankar, J., & Iyer, N. R. (2014). Fuzzy logic controller for real-time substructuring applications. Journal of Vibration and Control, 20(8), 1103-1118.
• Prakash, A., Rajasankar, J., Anandavalli, N., Verma, M., & Iyer, N. R. (2013). Influence of adhesive thickness on high velocity impact performance of ceramic/metal composite targets. International Journal of Adhesion and Adhesives, 41, 186-197.
• Verma, M., & Rajasankar, J. (2012). Improved model for real-time substructuring testing system. Engineering Structures, 41, 258-269.

National

• Verma, M., Stefanaki, A., Sivaselvan, M. V., Rajasankar, J., & Iyer, N. R. (2015). A Convex Optimization Framework for Hybrid Simulation. In Advances in Structural Engineering , 221-231. Springer India.
• Verma, M., Rajasankar, J., & Iyer, N. R. (2013). Numerical evaluation of controllers for delay compensation in real-time substructuring. Journal of Structural Engineering (JoSE), CSIR – SERC, 40(1), 29-34.
• Bharathi Priya, C., Keerthana, M., Verma, M. & Banjara, N.K. (2011). Design of steel channel tension members-proposal to IS 800:2007. Journal of Structural Engineering (JoSE), CSIR-SERC, 38(2), 122–130.

Patents / Copyrights