Dr.J.D.Chaitanya Kumar is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at K.L. (Deemed to be University), Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh.
He was previously serving as a Lecturer in the Department of Civil Engineering, College of Engineering, at Debre Berhan University, Ethiopia. He was awarded his Doctorate in Civil Engineering from JNTU Anantapur. He has done M.Tech. (Structural Engineering) from GVP College of Engineering (A), Affiliated with JNTU Kakinada, and B.Tech. (Civil Engineering.) from SRK Institute of Technology, Affiliated with JNTU Kakinada. He has 10 years of experience in the Teaching field both Abroad and in India.
His research interests span both sustainable construction materials and their structural behavior. Much of his work has been on utilizing agricultural waste to develop the Light Weight of concrete elements and observe their behavior. He has published 28 Scopus Indexed papers and 01 SCI paper. Also, he has been actively presenting at conferences. His h -index is 6 and the i10 – index is 03 (Google Scholar). He filed a patent on Steel-Concrete Composite Structure Design.
He has been a reviewer for 03 reputed journals. He is also a member of the Indian Concrete Institute (ICI) and the Pre-Engineered Structures Society of India (PSI). He has active participation in numerous National and International Workshops, Conferences, Symposiums, Seminars, Webinars, Guest lectures, Training Programmes, etc.