Chief Scientist & Head,Seismic Group
CSIR-National Geophysical Research Institute, Uppal Road, Hyderabad 500 007, India
Received his M.Sc.(Tech) in Applied Geophysics from the Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad in 1988 and Ph.D. in Controlled Source Seismology from the Osmania University (CSIR-NGRI), Hyderabad. He visited Cambridge University (UK) and Rice University (USA) as a post-doctoral fellow, and USGS in Menlo Park (USA) as a visiting Scientist. He is a Chief Scientist & Head of Seismic Group at CSIR-NGRI that has three wings: Deep Seismics, Shallow Seismics and Marine Seismics. He is working on seismic attenuation & other attributes, meta-attribute, travel-time tomography, AVO modeling, 1-D & 2-D full-waveform inversion, impedance inversion, prestack depth migration, rock physics modeling. His main interests include (i) delineation and assessment of gas-hydrates, (ii) imaging sub-volcanic sediments, and (iii) understanding geotectonics and earthquake processes of Indian provinces including the Himalaya from geophysical data. He has published 121 research papers in peer-review scientific journals, 116 non-SCI articles/reports, and guided for 65 dissertations as part of curriculum for M.Sc. Tech in App. Geophysics of several Indian Institutes/Universities. He has been recognized by a number of awards/fellowships/honours; notable among them are (i) Fellow of National Academy of Sciences, India (2011); Andhra Pradesh Academy of Sciences (2010); Telangana State Academy of Sciences (2016), (ii) Distinguished Alumnus Award (2017) of IIT(ISM); AP Scientist Award (2011); Young Scientist Award (1998) of CSIR; National Mineral Award (2005) by Ministry of Mines; Best Paper Award (2012) published in Gondwana Research (IF=8.23); Best Poster Award (2007) by Int. Con. on Oil & Gas by PETROTECH; Swarnajayanti Project Award (2001) by DST, (iii) Raman Fellowship (2003) by CSIR; BOYSCAST Fellowship (1999) by DST, (iv) Krishnan Gold Medal (1996); Anni Talwani Memorial Prize (2014) & Decennial Award (2016) by IGU, (v) Prem Bahadur Memorial Lecture (2009) by IGC, etc. He is a member of numerous Committees like the Bureau Member of International Lithosphere Program under IUGG (2007-2015); Hon. Secretary of Indian Geophysical Union (2014 onward); Indian National Gas Hydrates Program (2000 onward); Alternate delegate of Asia pacific region to AAPG House of Delegates (2015-2017), and Editorial Boards of Int. Journals such as 'Jour. of Geological Soc. of India & First Track Articles', 'Open Access Jour. of Geophys. & Remote Sensing', and Open Access Int. Jour. of Geosci. Research'. He has served as a Guest Editor in 3 special issues on gas-hydrates in 'Marine & Petroleum Geology' (2011, 2014, 2018) by Elsevier and as a member of Editorial Board for the second edition of 'Encyclopedia for Solid Earth Geophysics' by Springer.
