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Dr. Kumar Molugaram obtained Bachelor's degree from Osmania University, Hyderabad, Master's Degree from J.N.T. University, Hyderabad, and Ph.D. degree from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. His area of specialization is Transportation Engineering, Statistical applications to Transportation Engineering and Optimisation Techniques.  He is a Professor & Head of Civil Engineering and Director of Infrastructure, Osmania University, Hyderabad, Telangana State.  He published over 55 research papers in various international and National journals and conferences. He has Guided 30 B. E Projects, 42 M. E. Projects and two Ph. Ds.  Presently he is supervising Eight Research (Ph. D) Students. He is a member of Departmental Research committee and Departmental Committee. He is a member of National level committee, constituted Govt. of India and member in several committees of Govt. of AP. He worked as Additional Controller of Examinations, OU, Chairman, Board of Studies in Civil Engineering.  He is a consultant for HMDA, SCCL and GHMC works. He is a Co-ordinator (STA), PMGSY, Govt. of India. He is a life member of several research and technical organizations like FIE, IRC, IUT, ASCE, IIBE, and SRS. He visited the Countries/International Cities like London, Sydney, Melbourne, Singapore, San-Francisco, Chicago, Washington D.C, Newyork in USA, Rome, Capri,  Bangkok, Hong-kong, Toronto, Beijing and Shanghai  to present research papers in international conferences. He visited 16 states in the country. He organized one national conference on “Civil Engineering Systems - 2006”, five workshops and one Training programmes till date. He delivered more than 145 expert lectures in the area of Transportation Engineering, optimization Techniques and engineering research methodology on various national platforms in India. Prof. Kumar has over 18 years of Teaching, Research and Consultancy experience.