obtained her B.Tech. from Mar Athanasius College of Engineering, Kothamangalam and M Tech. and Ph.D. from NIT Calicut. She started her career as lecturer in Civil Engineering in N S S College of Engineering, Palakkad in 1987 and retired as Professor and Head of the Department in 2020. She is a recipient of the Young Scientist award, Kerala Science Congress (1996) and Young Scientist Merit Award, Indian Science Congress (1997). She has undertaken many funded research projects and authored forty-five papers in technical journals and conference proceedings. She is a consultant to many governmental and non- governmental organizations. She is a member of the Institution of Engineers (India), Indian Roads Congress, and Indian Society for Technical Education.