Dr. Suman Kundapura

B.E, M.Tech,Ph.D

Assoc. Professor & HOD

Profile: Mrs. Suman Kundapura has completed her research work on soft computing applications in coastal breakwaters for the award of PhD (Civil Engg.) from NITK, Surathkal (July 2019). She persued her M.Tech in Hydraulics and Water resources Engg., from NITK, Surathkal and B.E. in Civil Engineering, from NMAMIT, Nitte. Having more than 5 years of teaching and 4 years of research experience, she has published 3 International journal papers, 2 book chapters and 13 research papers in various International/National conferences. She is a life member of ISH and ISTE. She has attended several FDP, workshops and training programs at reputed Institutes of National interest.



  • PhD - NITK, Surathkal,2019
  • M.Tech - NITK, Surathkal,2004
  • B.E - VISVESVARAYA TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY BELAGAVI ,2002

    • Industry Experience
  • Confident group, Bangalore , 2006

  • Water Resources Engg., Marine Structures, Soft computing

    •         CHAPTERS: 2        JOURNALS: 3        CONFERENCE: 13
    CHAPTERS
    1. Relative wave run-up parameter prediction of emerged semicircular breakwater, Kundapura, S., Rao, S., Arkal, V.H. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, 2021, 77, pp. 867–878. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-5195-6_63
    2. Beyond the data range approach to soft compute the reflection coefficient for emerged perforated semicircular breakwater, Suman Kundapura and Arkal Vittal Hegde, IIT, Madras, February 18-21, 2018, Springer proceedings of ICOE 2018. (Lecture notes series) https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-13-3134-3_21
    JOURNALS
    1. Below the data range prediction of soft computing wavreflection of semicircular breakwater. Suman Kundapura, Vittal Hegde Arkal and Jose L. S. Pinho, Springer, Journal of Marine science and Technology, 2019 Online https://doi.org/10.1007/s11804-019-00088-4; SCImago rating Q2
    2. PSO-ANFIS hybrid approach for prediction of wave reflection coefficient for semicircular breakwater, Suman Kundapura and Arkal Vittal Hegde, Taylor and Francis, ISH Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, Published online 1oct2018, https://doi.org/10.1080/09715010.2018.1525688; SCImago rating Q2
    3. Current approaches of artificial intelligence in breakwaters- A Review, Suman Kundapura and Arkal Vittal Hegde, Techno Press, Ocean Systems Engineering, Vol. 7, No. 2 (2017) 75-87, June 2017, https:// doi.org/10.12989/ose.2017.7.2.075; SCImago rating Q2
    CONFERENCE
    1. Detecting and quantifying GHG emissions from different land use systems, national conference on Recent trends in Engineering and Technology, Bangalore, 17-18, June, 2022
    2. Low cost water harvesting pond, International conference on Sustainabilty and New Paradigms in Civil Engineering, SNPCE, Bangalore, 7-11, December, 2021
    3. Wave runup parameter prediction for beyond the data ranges of a semicircular breakwater, First International Conference on emerging trends and challenges in applied science Engineering and Technology 2020, Bangalore, March 10-11, 2020.
    4. Decadal land use land cover changes of Mangalore Taluk using QGIS, Suman Kundapura, Anurag C M, Rohan Madta, Pavan G S and Manoj, International Conference Trending Moments and Steer Forces-2019, Goa Don Bosco college of Engineering (DBCE), Fatorda.
    5. Relative wave run-up parameter prediction of emerged semicircular breakwater (2019) International Conference on Recent Trends and Innovations in Civil Engineering, Medi-Caps University, Indore, India, September 26-28, 2019
    6. Beyond the data range approach to soft compute the reflection coefficient for emerged perforated semicircular breakwater, Suman Kundapura and Arkal Vittal Hegde, ICOE 2018. IIT, Madras, February 18-21, 2018
    7. Extreme learning machines to predict the stability of semicircular breakwater, Suman Kundapura and Arkal Vittal Hegde, Next frontiers in civil engineering, NFiCE2018, IIT, Bombay, 30th November to 1rst December 2018
    8. Prediction of reflection coefficient using ANN for lower ranges of wave height for semicircular breakwater, K. Suman and A. V. Hegde, OSICON 17 Conference, NCESS Thiruvananthapuram, August 28-30, 2017
    9. Soft computing wave reflection for a semicircular breakwater for below and beyond the data range of wave periods, Arkal Vittal Hegde and Suman Kundapura, Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Ship and Offshore Technology, ICSOT 2017, IIT, Kharagpur, India, December 7-8, 2017
    10. ANFIS vs ANN for prediction of wave reflection coefficient for a semicircular breakwater, Suman Kundapura and Arkal Vittal Hegde, Hydro-2017, 22nd International Conference on Hydraulics water resources and coastal engineering, L.D. College of Engineering Ahmedabad, India, December 15-17, 2017
    11. Stability parameter prediction of semicircular breakwater by using hybrid models, HYDRO 2019- 24th International Conference on Hydraulics water resources and coastal engineering, Department of Civil Engineering Osmania University, Hyderabad, December 18-20, 2017
    12. Applications of ANN in breakwaters-a review, S. Kundapura and A. V. Hegde, ISLT 2016, 10th International Symposium on Lowland Technology 2016 hosted by NITK, Surathkal, Mangalore, India. September 15-17, 2016
    13. Application of ANN in prediction of reflection coefficient for an emerged perforated semicircular breakwater, K. Suman and A. V. Hegde, HYDRO2016, 21st International Conference on Hydraulics, water resources and coastal engineering, CWPRS, Pune, December 8-10, 2016

    UG: 4 (Completed)         1 (In Process)

    INVITED TALKS: 4                 PARTICIPATED: 30
    INVITED TALKS
    1. Online based teaching delivered to the Faculty @ Pompei Higher secondary school , 10th Dec, 2020
    2. Soft computing techniques in the field of civil engineering, Three day FDP on Emerging Trends in Civil Engineering @ Gopalan college of Engineering, Bangalore , 10th July 2020
    3. Raising climate resilient, energy secured healthy built environment @ BIG SHOW India conference - 2022, TMA Pai Hall Convention Centre, 2oct2022
    4. Global warming , @ Seva Sadan College of Arts, Science & Commerce, Maharashtra, 29th May 2021
    PARTICIPATED
    1. One Day workshop on Innovative concepts in ocean engineering, Dept. of Applied Mechanics and Hydraulics @ NITK, Surathkal, 26th April, 2019
    2. One Day Seminar on New Frontiers in Hydraulics and water resources engineering @ NITK, Surathkal, 28th December, 2018
    3. One day workshop on Environmental polllution and awareness, organized by Department of Civil Engineering and Chemical Engineering @ MVJ college of Engineering, Bangalore, 14th March 2005
    4. Computational marine hydrodynamics, TEQIP-II sponsored workshop @ NITK, Surathkal, January 19to20, 2017
    5. Poster Presentation on the topic Soft computing techniques in the prediction of hydraulic response of semicircular breakwaters, PAST, PRESENT & FUTURE SCENARIO OF MARINE STRUCTURE, TEQIP-II sponsored workshop @ NITK, Surathkal, February 20th, 2017
    6. Coastal hydrodynamics and modelling, TEQIP-II sponsored workshop @ NITK, Surathkal, October 7th, 2016
    7. Global Initiative of Academic Networks, Offshore Renewable Energy (Wave, Wind and Tidal Energy) @ NITK, Surathkal, 7th to 11th, November 2016
    8. Recent trends in system application as applied to Civil Engineering , TEQIP-II sponsored workshop, @ NITK, Surathkal, January 9th, 2015.
    9. Tsunami threat and its mitigation along Indian coast, TEQIP-II sponsored workshop @ NITK, Surathkal, November 2nd, 2015
    10. Webinar on Water supply and advanced waste water treatment organized @ P A College of Engineering, Mangaluru on , 29th June 2020.
    11. Webinar on Use of micro materials in concrete organized @ Qcrete Readymix (India)Pvt Ltd, Mangaluru, 4th July 2020
    12. Webinar on Soil structure interaction and deep foundations: Theory and applications’ organized @ A. J Institute of Engg & Technology, Mangaluru, 7th July 2020.
    13. Webinar on Design of prefabricated dry construction technology in buildings organized @ A. J Institute of Engg & Technology, Mangaluru, 8th July 2020.
    14. International Webinar on The impact of drones in the construction industry organized @ PET college of Engg Vallioor , 17th July 2020.
    15. Webinar on Climate change impacts on hydrology of western ghat river catchments organized @ A. J Institute of Engg & Technology, Mangaluru, 18th July 2020
    16. Webinar on Design think of a self reliant India, organized @ A. J Institute of Engg & Technology, Mangaluru, 23th July 2020.
    17. Webinar on ABC of construction, organized @ ASCE-ISWR in association with KDK college of Engg., Nagpur, India, 28th July 2020.
    18. Webinar on Solid Waste Management, organized by Department of Civil Engg @ A.J Institute of Engg & Technology, Mangaluru, 2nd July 2021.
    19. Webinar on TrueCyber safe webinar, jointly organized by True caller and cyberpeace foundation @ , 2022
    20. One-Week Online Faculty Development Program on Quantum Geographic Information System QGIS, organized @ IIT Bombay, MHRD, funded by National mission on education through ICT, MHRD,, 1st to 5th June 2020.
    21. RBCDSAIs International Summit on Data Science and AI, conducted from , organised @ the Robert Bosch Centre for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, 18th to 20th June 2020
    22. One-Week Online Faculty Development Program on Advances in Modelling of Hydrological Extreme Events(AMHEE- 2020) organized by the Department of Civil Engineering @ B.M.S. College of Engineering, Bengaluru, 22nd to 26th June 2020.
    23. Three days online Faculty Development Program on Research Methodology and Scientific Writing, organized by Internal Quality assurance Cell (IQAC) @ Sree Buddha College of Engineering, Alappuzha, Kerala, June 29th to July 1st , 2020
    24. Five days online FDP on Application of Artificial Intelligence in Civil Engineering - AAICE 2020 conducted @ J.N.N. College of Engineering, Shivamogga, in association with Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE), 20-07-2020 to 24-07-2020.
    25. Three days online Faculty Development Program on Environmental Engineering, organized @ Saveetha Engineering college affiliated to Anna University,, July 27th to July 29th , 2020.
    26. Twenty-one days of online GIS Training Program using QGIS, conducted by the Department of Geography @ School of Earth Sciences, Central University of Karnataka, India, jointly with State Institute of Urban Development, Karnataka, India , 13.7.2020 to 2.8.2020.
    27. Three days online Faculty Development Program on Bridge Structures, organized by the Department of Civil Engineering @ SRM Institute of Science & Technology, Ramapuram, Chennai- 89, Aug 3rd to 5th , 2020
    28. Five days online Faculty development program on Recent advances in construction and demolition waste management TEQIP-III @ NITK, Surathkal,, February 22-26, 2021
    29. Five days online Faculty development program on Recent advances in construction and demolition waste management TEQIP-III @ Two days online professional development program on Climate resilient, energy secured and healthy built environments, The university of Bath, UK and the Indian institute of Technology, Roorkee , August 2022
    30. Five day Faculty development program on Inculcating universal human values in Technical education organized @ AICTE, Sept 13-17, 2021

    1. Member of Disciplinary/ Security Committee @ AJIET Mangalore, 2022
    2. Member of Anti-Ragging Committee @ AJIET Mangalore, 2022
    3. Member of Hostel Committee @ AJIET Mangalore, 2022
    4. Member of Consultancy @ AJIET Mangalore, 2022
    5. Member of Academic Audit Committee @ AJIET Mangalore, 2022
    6. Member of Technical Commmittee @ AJIET, 2019
    7. Member of Publicity Commmittee @ AJIET, 2019
    8. Member of Girls hostel Commmittee @ AJIET, 2019
    9. Coordinator for NBA accreditation process criteria @ AJIET, 2019
    10. Coordinator for Exam Commmittee @ AJIET, 2019
    11. Coordinator for NBA accreditation process criteria @ NITK, Surathkal, 2016-2017

  • Linkdin: - https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-suman-kundapura-a12b8118/
  • ORCID: - https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0481-4223
  • Web of Science: - AAJ-7188-2020
  • SCOPUS: - https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=57195287105

    • PROFESSIONAL MEMBER
    1. Life Time Membership of Indian Society for Technical Education (MISTE-LH47652)
    2. Indian Society for Hydraulics (ISH-1198)