Information
- Designation : Assistant Professor (Gr. II)
- Email : ankush@civil.nits.ac.in
- Phone : 6000875244
Key Notes
- Conference: International - 38
- Journals: 30
- Conferences: 40
- Book Chapters: 14
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PUBLICATIONSIntroduction [Biosketch]
- Dr. Ankush Kumar is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at the National Institute of Technology (NIT) Silchar, where he has been serving since December 2025. Prior to this, he worked as an Assistant Professor (Temporary Faculty) in the Department of Civil Engineering at the National Institute of Technology (NIT) Sikkim from September 2024 to December 2025. He obtained his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati, after completing his M.Tech in Civil Engineering from the same institute and a B.Tech in Civil Engineering from the National Institute of Technology (NIT) Agartala. Dr. Kumar possesses strong expertise in the rheological, mechanical, chemical, and microstructural characterization of asphalt binders and mixtures. His scholarly contributions include 30 journal publications, 14 Scopus-indexed book chapters and conference proceedings, and over 40 papers presented at leading national and international conferences. He has received several national and international accolades, including the Indo–Asian Thomas Telford Best Teacher & Researcher Award, the Bihar PWD Medal from the Indian Roads Congress, the DST International Travel Support Grant, five best paper/presentation awards at international conferences, and first prize in the National Road Safety Competition. Dr. Kumar has also contributed to professional capacity building as a resource person for invited lectures and training programs conducted by the Rural Connectivity Training & Research Center, Assam, and the Assam Road Research & Training Institute (ARR&TI), PWRD, Assam. He has contributed as a transcript editor and reviewer for the NPTEL Course (Pavement Construction Technology). He is a Life Member of the Indian Roads Congress (IRC) and a Young Member of RILEM, and actively serves as a reviewer for 16 reputed international journals published by Elsevier, Springer Nature, and ASCE.
Areas of Interest
- Pavement materials characterization; Modified asphalt binder, Composite asphalt; Asphalt recycling; Warm mix asphalt; Asphalt mix charaxterization; Pavement design and analysis; Pavement engineering; Road safety
| Institution | Year | Degree |
|---|---|---|
| Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati | 2024 | Ph.D |
| Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati | 2019 | M.Tech |
| National Institute of Technology Agartala | 2016 | B.Tech |
Teaching Experience
National Institute of Technology Silchar
National Institute of Technology Sikkim
Sunny Kumar, Rajan Choudhary, and Ankush Kumar, “A study on mixing and compaction temperatures of stone matrix asphalt mixes with polymer and rubber modified binders and warm mix additive”, In Proceedings 8th Conference of Transportation Research Group of India (CTRG-2025), 2025, IIT Guwahati, Assam, India, Indexed in Others
Ashish Sharma, Rajan Choudhary, Saswat Biswapriya Dash, and Ankush Kumar, “Natural fiber treatment for use in bituminous mixes”, In Proceedings 3rd International Conference on Construction Materials and Structures (ICCMS 2025)-Synergy of Materials and Structures (SMS), 2025, Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, India, Indexed in Others
Ashish Sharma, Rajan Choudhary, Ankush Kumar, and Saswat Biswapriya Dash, “Maintenance strategies for open-graded asphalt friction courses: A comprehensive review”, In Proceedings 4th International Conference on Recent Developments in Sustainable Infrastructure (ICRDSI 2024-25), 2025, KIIT Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India, Indexed in Others
Rajan Choudhary, Ashutosh Kumar Singh, Saswat Biswapriya Dash, Ashish Sharma, Ankush Kumar, “Evaluation of mechanical characteristics of rich dense bituminous mixes”, In Proceedings 4th International Conference on Recent Developments in Sustainable Infrastructure (ICRDSI 2024-25), 2025, KIIT Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India, Indexed in Others
Ashish Sharma, Rajan Choudhary, Ankush Kumar, and Saswat Biswapriya Dash, “Optimization of alkali treatment parameters for agro-waste banana fiber and its assessment as a reinforcing additive in open-graded friction course mixes”, In Proceedings 104th Annual Meeting of Transportation Research Board (TRB), 2025, Washington, D.C., USA, Indexed in Others
Saswat Biswapriya Dash, Rajan Choudhary, Ashish Sharma, and Ankush Kumar, “A study to evaluate the effect of aggregate gradation and binder type on aggregate bond slippage failures in stone matrix asphalt under the combined action of temperature and moisture”, In Proceedings 104th Annual Meeting of Transportation Research Board (TRB), 2025, Washington, D.C., USA, Indexed in Others
| Sl.No | Certification Name | Documents | Certification Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Online Training on ‘Pavement Evaluation Techniques and their Applications for Maintenance and Rehabilitation’ | Online Training on ‘Pavement Evaluation Techniques and their Applications for Maintenance and Rehabilitation’ organized by CSIR-Central Road Research Institute, New Delhi, from October 27–29, 2021. | |
| 2 | Materials Science: 10 Things Every Engineer Should Know | Completed a course on ‘Materials Science: 10 Things Every Engineer Should Know’ authorized by École des Ponts ParisTech and offered through Coursera in 2021. | |
| 3 | Laboratory Performance Testing of Asphalt Mixtures | Attended webinar on ‘Laboratory Performance Testing of Asphalt Mixtures’ organized by the Center for Research and Education in Advanced Transportation Engineering Systems (CREATES), Rowan University, United States, and earned 1.0 Professional Development Hour (PDH) on May 26, 2021. | |
| 4 | APA: Asphalt 101 in Commercial Applications | Attended ‘APA: Asphalt 101 in Commercial Applications’ organized by Asphalt Pavement Alliance, United States, and earned 1.5 Professional Development Hours (PDHs) on April 26, 2022. | |
| 5 | Dynamic Mechanical Analysis (DMA) | Attended the webinar on ‘Dynamic Mechanical Analysis (DMA)’ organized by Anton Paar India Pvt. Ltd. on March 30, 2021. | |
| 6 | 3 Star or Better Roads to Reduce Severe Injuries & Deaths | Attended a webinar on ‘3 Star or Better Roads to Reduce Severe Injuries & Deaths’ organized by the School of Civil Engineering, MIT World Peace University, Pune & RTO, Pune, Maharashtra, in association with the Ministry of Road Transport & Highways, Government of India & Education Ministry, Maharashtra State on February 8, 2021. | |
| 7 | Road Safety Advocacy | Attended a 2-day online program on ‘Road Safety Advocacy’ organized by the School of Civil Engineering, MIT World Peace University, Pune & RTO, Pune, Maharashtra, in association with the Ministry of Road Transport & Highways, Government of India & Education Ministry, Maharashtra State from February 5-6, 2021. | |
| 8 | Mastering Bitumen for Better Roads and Innovative Applications | Completed a course on ‘Mastering Bitumen for Better Roads and Innovative Applications’ authorized by École des Ponts ParisTech and offered through Coursera in 2020. | |
| 9 | High Friction Surface Treatment to Increase Pavement Safety | Attended webinar on ‘High Friction Surface Treatment to Increase Pavement Safety’ organized by the Center for Research and Education in Advanced Transportation Engineering Systems (CREATES), Rowan University, United States, and earned 1.0 Professional Development Hour (PDH) on August 26, 2020. | |
| 10 | APA: Asphalt 101 for Civil and Geotechnical Engineers Webinar | Attended ‘APA: Asphalt 101 for Civil and Geotechnical Engineers Webinar’ organized by Asphalt Pavement Alliance, United States, and earned 1.0 Professional Development Hour (PDH) on August 20, 2020. | |
| 11 | Mechanical Characterization of Bituminous Materials | 12-week NPTEL course ‘Mechanical Characterization of Bituminous Materials’ on the SWAYAM platform by the Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, during Jan-Apr 2020. | |
| 12 | Mix Design Strategies for Improving Asphalt Mixtures Performance | Attended webinar on ‘Mix Design Strategies for Improving Asphalt Mixtures Performance’ organized by the National Asphalt Pavement Association (NAPA), United States, and earned 1.5 Professional Development Hours (PDHs) on January 10, 2020. | |
| 13 | Asphalt 101 for Civil and Geotechnical Engineer | Attended webinar on ‘Asphalt 101 for Civil and Geotechnical Engineer’ organized by the National Asphalt Pavement Association (NAPA), United States, and earned 1.0 Professional Development Hour (PDH) in 2020. | |
| 14 | Design and Construction of Sustainable Concrete Pavements | Participated in a short-term GIAN course on ‘Design and Construction of Sustainable Concrete Pavements’ organized by the Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, from December 09-13, 2019. | |
| 15 | Sustainable Roadways Design and Construction | Participated in a short-term course on ‘Sustainable Roadways Design and Construction’ organized by the Centre for Continuing Education (CCE) and Center for Infrastructure, Sustainable Transportation and Urban Planning (CiSTUP), Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore from September 24-25, 2018. | |
| 16 | Training course on ‘Road Safety’ | Attended a training course on ‘Road Safety’ organized by the Ministry of Road Transport & Highways (MoRTH), Govt. of India and Asian Institute of Transport Development (AITD), New Delhi, from August 27-31, 2018. |
Awards And Honours
- 2025: Indo–Asian Thomas Telford Best Teacher & Researcher Award 2025 for Excellence in Transportation Engineering by the International Multidisciplinary Research Foundation (IMRF), Institute of Higher Education & Research, India.
- 2024: Bihar PWD Medal – Indian Roads Congress (IRC) for the best paper award on "Road Research" for the research paper discussed during the 82nd IRC Annual Session at Gandhinagar (Gujarat) and conferred the medals during the 83rd IRC Annual Session at Raipur (Chhattisgarh).
- 2022: Selected for International Travel Support Grant of the Department of Science & Technology (Govt. of India) for attending and presenting papers at the 102nd Annual Meeting of Transport Research Board (TRB), Washington, DC, United States.
- 2022: Best Paper Award for the paper titled "Stabilization of Open Graded Asphalt Friction Course Mixes with Plant-based Natural Fibers" in the Second International Conference on Construction Materials and Structures (ICCMS-2022) during 13-19 December 2022.
- 2021: First Prize (Winner) in the National Road Safety Competition 2021, organized by General Insurance Council (GIC) India, for the paper: Kumar, A., Kumar, A., and Pathak, S. (2021). Night visibility: A major challenge for road users and innovative solutions.
- 2020: Overall Best Paper Award to the paper: Kumar, A., Choudhary, R., and Kumar, A. (2020). Arrhenius-based high-temperature performance evaluation of asphalt binders modified with waste plastic pyrolytic char. In the 2nd International Conference ICRDSI-2020, KIIT Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India.
- 2020: Best Paper Award for the paper: Choudhary, R., Kumar, V., Kumar, A., Pathak, S., and Kumar, A. (2020). Use of banana natural fiber as a stabilizing additive in open graded friction course. In the Session Themed 'Sustainability in Transportation Systems' in the 2nd International Conference ICRDSI-2020, KIIT Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India.
- 2020: Best Oral Presentation Award for the paper: Kumar, A., Choudhary, R., and Kumar, A. (2020). High temperature characterization of waste plastic pyrolytic char modified asphalt binders. In the International Conference on Engineering Sciences and Technologies for Environmental Care (ESTEC-2020), CSIR-NEIST, Assam, India.
- 2019: Best Paper Award for the paper: Kumar, A., Choudhary, R., and Kumar, A. (2019). Preliminary investigation on the use of sulphur with waste EPDM rubber for asphalt binder modification. In the International Conference TIPCE-2019, IIT Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India.
- 2019: Doctoral Fellowship from the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati under the Ministry of Education, Government of India.
- 2017: Master's Fellowship from the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati under the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India.
