Sunil K. Sinha
Professor
Areas of Interest
Water and Wastewater Infrastructure Systems, Asset Management, Cyber Infrastructure, Pattern Recognition, Artificial Intelligence, Sensor Informatics, Information Visualization, Subsurface Utility Engineering, Rehabilitation and Renewal Engineering.
- BE, Civil Engineering, Birla Institute of Technology, India
- MASc, Civil Engineering, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
- PhD, Civil & Systems Design Engineering, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
- 2014 - present, Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Virginia Tech
- 2008 - present, Director, Sustainable Water Infrastructure Management (SWIM) Center, Virginia Tech
- 2007 - 2014, Associate Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Virginia Tech
- 2001 - 2007, Assistant Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Penn State
- 2000 - 2001, Post-doctoral Fellow, Systems Design, University of Waterloo, Canada
- 1996 - 2000, Research Assistant, Civil & Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo
- 1987 - 1996, Project Engineer, World Bank Cell, Govt. of India, New Delhi
- National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award
- Natural Sciences & Engineering Research Council (NSERC), Canada - Post-Doctoral Fellowship
- Natural Sciences & Engineering Research Council (NSERC), Canada - Doctoral Postgraduate Scholarship
- Natural Sciences & Engineering Research Council (NSERC), Canada - Industrial Postgraduate Scholarship
- Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS), Ontario, Canada
- CEE 2804: Introduction to Civil and Environmental Engineering
- CEE 4014: Estimating, Production and Cost Engineering
- CEE 5080: Infrastructure Asset Management
- CEE 5084: Information Technology for Infrastructure and Environmental Systems
- (02/2006-01/2011) Sustainable Water Infrastructure Management System (SWIMS), NSF Career Award; $429,992
- (08/2007-12/2010) Development of Performance Prediction Model for Buried Pipes, WERF; $325,000
- (01/2008-12/2010) Condition Assessment of Water Transmission and Distribution System, US EPA; $150,000
- (05/2008-12/2010) Rapair and Rehabilitation of Water and Watsewater Pipes, US EPA; $162,000
- (06/2007-05/2008) Condition Rating System for Buried Pipes; 3RWWP; $55,000
- (07/2007-07/2008) Web-based Municipal Infrastructure Asset Management System, UE EPA; $70,000
- (08/2005-05/2007) Ultrasonic Inspection of Water & Sewer Pipes, TTC; $225,000
- (08/2005-05/2007) Automated Image Analysis of CCTV Inspection, PB, Inc.; $83,000
- (01/2006-05/2007) Virtual Construction of Civil Infrastructure, Autodesk, Inc.; $70,000
- (07/2006-07/2007) Subsurface Utility Engineering for Highway, Penn DOT; $145,000
- (01/2006-12/2006) MFL Signal Processing of Oil & Gas Pipeline, BJ Pipeline; $77,000
- (08/2004-03/2006) Avoiding Delays during the Construction Phase of Highway Projects, NCHRP; $250,000
- Jung, Y. J., and Sinha, S. K. (2007). ‘Critical Analysis of Modern Trenchless Technology Methods for Urban Infrastructure,’ ASCE Journal of Infrastructure Systems, vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 144-156.
- Sinha, S. K., and Wang, M. C. (2007). ‘Artificial Neural Network Prediction Models for Soil Compaction & Permeability,’ Journal of the Geotech and Geological Eng., Springer, vol. 27, pp. 1573-1529.
- Sinha, S. K., and McKim, R. A. (2007). ‘Probabilistic Based Integrated Pipeline Management System,’ Journal of the International Society of Trenchless Technology, Elsevier, vol. 22, no. 5-6, pp. 543-552.
- Sinha, S. K., Thomas, R. H., and Kulka, J. H. (2007). ‘Integrating Ethics into Engineering Design of Construction Process,’ ASCE Jornal of Proffesional Issues in Engineering Education, vol. 133, no. 4, pp. 291-299.
- Ok, S. C., and Sinha, S. K. (2006). ‘Estimating Construction Equipment Productivity: An Artificial Neural Network Based Approach,’ Journal of Construction Management & Economics, Taylor & Francis, vol. 24, no. 10, pp. 1029-1044.
- Sinha, S. K., and Fieguth, P. W. (2006). ‘Morphological Segmentation & Classification of Underground Pipe Images,’ Journal of Machine Vision & Applications, Springer-Verlag, vol.17(1), pp.21 – 31.
- Lee, D., Pietrucha, M. T., and Sinha, S. K., (2005). ‘Application of Fuzzy Logic to Evaluate Driver Perception of Variable Message Signs,’ Journal of Transportation Ressearch Record, TRB, vol. 1937, pp. 96-104.
- Iyer, S, and Sinha, S. K. (2005). ‘A Robust Approach for Automatic Detection & Segmentation of Cracks in Buried Pipeline Images,’ Journal of Image & Vision Computing, Elsevier, vol. 23 (10), pp. 921-933,
- Sinha, S. K., and Fieguth, P. W. (2005). ‘Segmentation of Buried Concrete Pipe Images,’ Journal of Automation in Construction, Elsevier Publication, vol. 15(1), pp. 47-57.
- Sinha, S. K., and Fieguth, P. W. (2005). ‘Automated Identification of Crack Defects in Buried Concrete Pipe Images,’ Journal of Automation in Construction, Elsevier, vol. 15(1), pp. 58-72.
- Sinha, S. K., and Fieguth, P. W. (2005). ‘Projection Neural Network Model for Classification of Pipe Defects,’ Journal of Automation in Construction, Elsevier, vol. 15(1), pp. 73-83.
- Sinha, S. K., and Karray, F. (2002). ‘Classification of Underground Pipe Scanned Images Using Feature Extraction and Neuro-fuzzy Algorithms,’ IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, vol. 13(2), pp. 393-401.