Dr Hemaraju Pollayi Seetharama Murthy Pollayi is an Associate Professor in Civil Engineering at the School of Technology – GITAM University Hyderabad, with broad disciplinary interests that span Self-Healing Materials and Structures, Non-Linear Mechanics of Composite Structures, Continuum Damage Mechanics, Multi-Body Dynamics, M/NEMS, Building Fire-Resistant Structures, Sustainable Construction Materials for Cold Climates, Low Cost-Affordable Housing, Remote Sensing (RS) and Geographical Information System (GIS) Applications.

He received his BE with Distinction (79.66%) in Civil Engineering from OU-Hyderabad in 2000 and MTech with First Class (8.25/10) in Civil Engineering (Structures) from IIT-Guwahati in 2003. He received his PhD in Aerospace Engineering from IISc-Bangalore in 2010. Upon graduating, he joined Mechanical Engineering at IISc as a Post-Doc from 2010-11 and Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Utah State University-USA from 2011-13. He served as an Associate Professor in Aeronautical Engineering at MRCET-Hyderabad.

He appointed as Editorial Board Member in American Journal of Civil Engineering. He received Outstanding Contribution in Reviewing Award from Editors of Composite Structures, Elsevier-Netherlands and recognized in Marquis Who’s Who Database-USA.

He is a Member of AIAA (The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics-Membership No. 427833) and ISCA (The Indian Science Congress Association-Membership No. L31268).

He received Excellent PhD Thesis-2010 Appreciation from International Reviewer, Prof. Andreas Mueller-University of Duisburg Essen, Germany.

He has 4-years of post-doc research experience in Solid Mechanics and Structural Health Monitoring immediately after PhD and about 5-years of teaching experience in Structural Dynamics.

He published two-monographs as part of Post-Doc: [1] VABS-GUI Manual, [2] Thermal Considerations in Design of NEMS Structures.

He published his research work in 25 high-impact factors International Journals and reputed International Conferences covering International Journal of Engineering Structures (Journal Impact Factor: 2.755), International Journal of Composite Structures (Journal Impact Factor: 4.101), International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics (Journal Impact Factor: 2.163).

He presented his research work in reputed International Conferences such as: [1] Proc. 7th World Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCM-VII)-USA, [2] Proc. ASME-2007 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (IDETC/CIE-2007)-USA, [3] Proc. 49th AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics and Materials Conference-USA, [4] Proc. 50th AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics and Materials ConferenceUSA, [5] Proc. 51st AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics and Materials Conference-USA, [6] Proc. The 1st Joint International Conference on Multibody System Dynamics (IMSD)-Finland, [7] Proc. 8th International Conference of Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics-Greece. Extended abstract published in a Special Volume of American Institute of Physics (AIP) Conference Proceedings, [8] Proc. 53rd AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics and Materials Conference-USA, [9] Proc. 54th AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics and Materials Conference-USA, [10] Proc. 12th International Conference of Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics-Greece. Extended abstract published in a Special Volume of American Institute of Physics (AIP) Conference Proceedings.

He assisted an MS(Engg.), an MS Plan-B and a PhD dissertation during PhD and Post-Doc. He guided 4-MTech students and 9-BTech projects (total students: 42). Currently, 1-BTech project (total students: 5) is in progress and guiding 7-PhD students working on various fields such as Modeling Self-Healing in Fibre Reinforced Composite Structures within VAM-CDHM Framework, Analysis and Design of Railway Turnout Sleepers, Computational Modeling of Self-Healing Materials and Structures, Structural Health Monitoring and Life Prognosis of Fibre-Reinforced Composite Helicopter Rotor Blades, Development of High-Performance Concrete (HPC) using Recycled Aggregates and Admixtures, Ageing of Fibre-Reinforced Polymer Composites and Computational Acoustic Analysis of a Laminated Composite Waveguide.

He successfully submitted research proposals to AR & DB entitled “Modeling Natural Fibre-Reinforced Composites for Aerospace Applications” which is under sanction [Project No. 3553] and SERB-DST (ECR) entitled “Asymptotical Modeling of Fibre-Reinforced Composite Sandwich Structures for Railway Applications” [with File No. ECR/2017/001367].
He completed two research projects with Prof. Wenbin Yu as PI at Utah State University-USA: [1] Develop VABS Software for Modeling Composite Beams, 2011-12, Sponsoring Agency: TICP-UTAH, USA, [2] Next-Generation VABS for More Realistic Design & Analysis of Composite Beams, 2011-16, Sponsoring Agency: US-ARMY, USA.

He successfully supported two-research projects with Prof. Dineshkumar Harursampath at IISc-Bangalore: [1] Structural Health Monitoring of Dhruv (Advanced Light Helicopter)’s Tail Rotor Flexbeam Using Smart Materials, 2002-06, Sponsoring Agency: HAL-Bangalore, [2] Concurrent Multiscale Electro-Mechanical Modeling of PFRC for Development of Multifunctional Smart Aerospace Structures in a Non-Deterministic Framework, 2006-11, Sponsoring Agency: Boeing-USA.
He chaired for session “Computational Mechanics” in International Conference on Computer-Aided Engineering (CAE-2015).

He is good in programming: C, C++, FORTRAN 77/90, UNIX Shell Scripting, GNU Make; Windows, Linux Platforms, Vim; AUTOLEV, VABS, VABS-GUI, Gmsh, ANSYS, COMSOL, MATLAB, STAAD Pro, AutoCAD, EPANET, Scilab, Python.
He is a reviewer for International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics, Composite Structures, Journal of Engineering, International Journal of Mechanical Sciences.

He successfully completed various IIRS-ISRO Outreach Programmes: [1] Geospatial Inputs for Enabling Master Plan Formulation under AMRUT Sub-scheme, [2] Remote Sensing and Digital Image Analysis, [3] Global Navigation Satellite System and Geographical Information System, [4] RS and GIS Applications, [5] Basics of Remote Sensing, Geographical Information System and Global Navigation Satellite System, [6] Satellite Remote Sensing in Agrometeorological Applications, [7] Hyperspectral Remote Sensing and its Applications, [8] Principles of Polarimetric SAR Remote Sensing and its Processing, [9] Advances in Forest Remote Sensing, [10] Geoprocessing Using Python, and [11] Digital Photogrammetry-based 3-D Modeling.

He successfully completed several FDPs: [1] Use of Moodle in Teaching and Assessments, [2] Activity-based Learning, [3] Pedagogy for Online and Blended Teaching-Learning Process [IIT Bombay], [3] Foundation Program in ICT for Education, [4] Enhancing English Language Skills, and [5] Strength of Materials.

He successfully completed several Workshops: [1] Affordable Housing for All-Focused on Sustainable Construction Materials [IIT Hyderabad], [2] Python [IIT Bombay], [3] Outcome-Based Teaching, Learning and Assessment Strategies, [4] Scilab, [5] Moodle Learning Management System, and [6] Introduction to Structural Engineering [IIT Kharagpur].
Recently, he organized Two-Days Workshop on “MATLAB Simulation” at GITAM University-Hyderabad, February 22-23, 2018.
He taught/teaching several UG and PG subjects: [1] Research Methodology, [2] Advanced Composite Structures, [3] Advanced Construction Techniques, [4] Ethics, Integrity and Aptitude, [5] Architectural Planning and CAD, [6] Computer Applications in Civil Engineering Lab, [7] Engineering for Community Service, [8] Computational Methods in Civil Engineering, [9] Mechanics of Solids Lab, [10] Design Practice, [11] Professional Ethics, [12] Computational Mechanics Laboratory in Civil Engineering, [13] Construction Management, [14] Engineering Graphics, [15] Structural Analysis, [16] Construction Management, [17] Building Planning and Drawing, [18] Engineering Mechanics-Statics and Dynamics, and [19] Steel Structures.

He ordered 20Ton Electronic Universal Testing Machine (UTE) for Structures Lab at GITAM University-Hyderabad in the capacity of Head, Civil Engineering from June 2015-January 2016.

He was Conference Committee Member of International Conference on Emerging Technologies in Mechanical Sciences (ICEMS-2014), Member of Faculty Search Committee, Departments of Aeronautical/Mechanical/Mining Engineering from July 2014-June 2015 and Member, Board of Studies of Aeronautical Engineering, MLR Institute of Technology-Hyderabad.
He was in several committees: [1] Core Committee Member for 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th Convocations, [2] Core Committee Member, Open House Science and Technical Expo-2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, [3] PRAMANA (Annual Techno-Cultural-Management Fest of GITAM)-2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, [4] Proctorial Committee, Overall Monitoring Deputy In-Charge, [5] DRC Member for Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering, and [6] Member, Institute Advisory Committee, National Conference on Physics and Chemistry of Functional Materials.

He participated in the 7th All India EWB Chapters Meet organized by EWB-India Chennai Professional Chapter. EWB-India joined hands and collaborating with Indo Universal Collaboration for Engineering Education (IUCEE).