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krishnak@utexas.edu
512-232-4406
Office Location: ECJ 9.227B

Krishna Kumar

Associate Professor

J. Neils Thompson Centennial Teaching Fellowship in Civil Engineering

Area(s) of Expertise
Geotechnical Engineering
Sustainable Systems Engineering

Educational Qualifications
Ph.D., University of Cambridge, 2015
M.S., Indian Institute of Technology Madras, 2010
B.E., Anna University, 2008

Technical Interests

  • Multi-scale modeling of natural hazards, landslides, earthquakes, debris flows, material point method, discrete element and lattice Boltzmann
  • High-performance computing in geomechanics
  • Large-scale big data frameworks for modeling infrastructure systems

Related Websites
Geoelements Research Group

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