• Rail Track Geotechnology. Cyclic Behavior of Granular Media under High-Frequency Cyclic Loading. The Role of Geosynthetics in Improving the Rail Track Performance. Ground Improvement. Pavement Geotechnics

• Application of Optical-Fiber Bragg Grating sensing technology in ballasted rail tracks.

• Engineering Drawing. Engineering Mechanics Engineering Drawing (Lab) Geomatics Engineering Railway Engineering Geomatics Engineering Laboratory Transportation Engineering Transportation Engineering Laboratory Civil Engineering Design-II Civil Engineering Laboratory-I Infrastructure Engineering Laboratory-II Seminar-I Seminar-II

• Finalist-Early Career Researchers Competition, Collaborate-Innovate-2012, Organized by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) during the Annual Conference of Cooperative Research Centres Association (An Australian Government Initiative); May 15-17, 2012, Adelaide, Australia. Scholarship for PhD research, Cooperative Research Centre for Rail Innovation, University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia. DAAD scholarship (German Academic Exchange Program), to carry out Masters Dissertation at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany. Fellowship for Post-Graduate studies, Government of India during Master of Technology at Indian Institute of Technology-Madras, India. Won the surveying award in ADSOPHOS-2005, National level technical festival conducted by M J College of Engineering and Technology, Hyderabad, India. Pratibha scholarship and Gold medal, from the Government of Andhra Pradesh.

• A.M. American Society of Civil Engineers Member: Indian Geotechnical Society Member: International Geosynthetics Society

• • Naquib Alam and Syed Khaja Karimullah Hussaini. (2023). “Performance of Geogrid-Reinforced Rubber-Coated Ballast and Natural Ballast Mix Under Direct Shear Conditions”, Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering, ASCE (Accepted: in press).
   
  • Dinesh Gundavaram and Syed Khaja Karimullah Hussaini. (2022). “Elastomeric polyurethane treatment for the stability improvement of coal fouled railroad ballast”, Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering, ASCE. (Accepted: in press).
   
  • Dinesh Gundavaram and Syed Khaja Karimullah Hussaini. (2022). “Application of Elastomeric Polyurethane in Performance Improvement of Rail Ballast subjected to Cyclic Loading”, Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering, ASCE, 35(4), 04023019.
   
  • Syed Khaja Karimullah Hussaini and Dinesh Gundavaram. (2022). “Behaviour of Coal-fouled Elastomeric Polyurethane-stabilized Ballast under Cyclic Loading”, Proceedings of IMechE Part F: Journal of Rail and Rapid Transit, DOI:10.1177/09544097221144804.
   
  • Dinesh Gundavaram and Syed Khaja Karimullah Hussaini. (2022). “Closure to influence of Coal Fouling on the Shear Behavior of Elastan-Treated Railroad Ballast ”Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering, ASCE, 2022, 34(11), 07022011-1.
   
  • Dinesh Gundavaram and Syed Khaja Karimullah Hussaini. (2022).  “Effect of treatment zone on the performance of polyurethane-stabilized ballast under cyclic loading”, Transportation Geotechnics, 2022, 37, 100886.
   
  • K, Sweta., Syed Khaja Karimullah Hussaini (2022). “Role of particle breakage on damping, resiliency and service life of geogrid-reinforced ballasted tracks” Transportation Geotechnics, 2022, 37, 100828.
   
  • Prasad, K.V.S., Syed Khaja Karimullah Hussaini (2022) “Review of different stabilization techniques adapted in ballasted tracks”, Construction and Building Materials, 2022, 340, 127747.
   
  • Hussain, A., Syed Khaja Karimullah Hussaini (2022) "Use of steel slag as railway ballast: A review”,  Transportation Geotechnics, 2022, 35, 100779.
   
  • Dinesh Gundavaram and Syed Khaja Karimullah Hussaini. (2022). “Effect of polyurethane stabilization and coal fouling on drainage behaviour of railroad ballast”, Proceedings of the 2022 Joint Rail Conference, April 20-22, 2022 (https://doi.org/10.1115/JRC2022-77803).
   
  • Syed Khaja Karimullah Hussaini and Kumari Sweta (2021). “Investigation of deformation and degradation response of geogrid-reinforced ballast based on model track tests” Journal of Rail and Rapid Transit, 235 (4), 505-517.
   
  • Syed Khaja Karimullah Hussaini and Dinesh Gundavaram. (2022). “Shear strength and drainage characteristics of Elastomeric Polyurethane treated coal-fouled ballast”, Transportation Research Record, 2676(1), 704–717..
   
  • Dinesh Gundavaram and Syed K. K. Hussaini. (2021). “Stabilization of railroad ballast using polyurethane under various coal fouling conditions”, Proceedings of the 2021 Joint Rail Conference, JRC 2021, 2021, V001T01A003.
   
  • Dinesh Gundavaram and Syed K. K. Hussaini. (2021). “Influence of Coal Fouling on the Shear Behaviour of Elastan-treated Railroad Ballast”, Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering, ASCE, 33 (9), 04021239. (DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)MT.1943-5533.0003895).
   
  • Kumari Sweta and Syed K. K. Hussaini.(2020). “Effect of geogrid on deformation response and resilient modulus of railroad ballast under cyclic loading”, Construction and Building Materials, 264:120690. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2020.120690)
   
  • Syed K. K. Hussaini and Kumari Sweta. (2020). “Investigation of deformation and degradation response of geogrid-reinforced ballast based on model track tests”, IMechE Part F: Journal of Rail and Rapid Transit, 1-13 https://doi.org/10.1177/0954409720944687
   
  • Dinesh Gundavaram and Syed K. K. Hussaini. (2020). “Effect of coal fouling on railroad ballast under direct shear loading conditions”, Proceedings of the 2020 Joint Rail Conference, ASME, April 20-22, 2020, St. Louis, MO, USA. JRC2020-8010, pp.1-7.
   
  • Dinesh Gundavaram and Syed K. K. Hussaini. (2020). “Performance evaluation of polyurethane-stabilized railroad ballast under direct shear conditions”, Construction and Building Materials, 255:119304. (doi: 10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2020.119304).
   
  • Syed K. K. Hussaini and Kumari Sweta. (2020). “Application of geogrids in stabilizing rail track substructure”, Frontiers in Built Environment-Transportation and Transit System, 6(20), 1-20 (https://doi.org/10.3389/fbuil.2020.00020).
   
  • Syed K. K. Hussaini and Kumari Sweta. (2019). “Stabilization of Rail Track Substructure using Geogrids”, International Conference on Geotechnics for High Speed Corridors (GHC 2019), 24^th-27^th July 2019, Thiruvananthapuram, India (pp. 253-257).
   
  • Kumari Sweta and Syed K. K. Hussaini. (2019). “Performance of Geogrid-Reinforced Railroad Ballast in Direct Shear Mode”, Ground Improvement, (https://doi.org/10.1680/jgrim.18.00107).
   
  • Dinesh Gundavaram and Syed K. K. Hussaini. (2019). “Polyurethane-based stabilization of railroad ballast–a critical review”, International Journal of Rail Transportation, 7(3) 219-240, (doi: 10.1080/23248378.2019.1570477).
   
  • Kumari Sweta and Syed K. K. Hussaini. (2019). “Behavior evaluation of geogrid-reinforced ballast-subballast interface under shear condition”, Geotextiles and Geomembranes, 47(1), 23-31. (doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geotexmem.2018.09.002).
   
  • Kumari Sweta and Syed K. K. Hussaini. (2018). “Behavior of soil fouled ballast-geogrid interfaces at different rates of shearing ”, Indian Geotechnical Conference 2018, 13-15 December 2018, IISc-Bangalore, India, pp. 1-8.
   
  • Syed K. K. Hussaini., Buddhima Indraratna., and J. S. Vinod (2018). “A Critical Review of the Performance of Geosynthetic-Reinforced Railroad Ballast”, Geotechnical Engineering Journal of the SEAGS & AGSSEA, 49(4), 31-41.
   
  • Kumari Sweta and Syed K. K. Hussaini. (2018). “Shear behaviour of geosynthetic-reinforced ballast based on large-scale direct shear testing”, In J. Pombo, (Editor): “Fourth International Conference on Railway Technology: Research, Development and Maintenance”, A2.06,3-7 September 2018, Sitges, Barcelona, Spain.
   
  • Kumari Sweta and Syed K. K. Hussaini. (2018). “Performance evaluation of ballast-subballast interface stabilized with geogrids”, In: Wu W., Yu HS. (Eds.), “Proceedings of China-Europe Conference on Geotechnical Engineering”. Springer Series in Geomechanics and Geoengineering (pp. 1738-1741). Springer, Cham. (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97115-5_182).
   
  • Kumari Sweta and Syed K. K. Hussaini. (2018). “Effect of shearing rate on the behavior of geogrid-reinforced railroad ballast under direct shear conditions”, Geotextiles and Geomembranes, 46(3), 251-256. (doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geotexmem.2017.12.001).
   
  • Kumari Sweta and Syed K. K. Hussaini. (2017). “Behavior of Geogrid-Reinforced Railroad Ballast in Direct Shear Conditions”, Indian Geotechnical Conference 2017 GeoNEst, 14-16 December 2017, IIT Guwahati, India, pp. 1-4.
   
  • Syed K. K. Hussaini., Indraratna, B., Vinod, J.S. (2016). “A laboratory investigation to assess the functioning of railway ballast with and without geogrids”, Transportation Geotechnics, 6, 45-54. (doi:10.1016/j.trgeo.2016.02.001).
   
  • Syed K. K. Hussaini., Indraratna, B., and Vinod, Jayan S. (2015). “Application of Optical-Fiber Bragg Grating Sensors in Monitoring the Rail Track Deformations”, Geotechnical Testing Journal, ASTM, 38(4), pp.387-396. (doi: 10.1520/GTJ20140123. ISSN 0149-6115).
   
  • Syed K. K. Hussaini., Indraratna, B., Jayan S. Vinod. (2015). "Performance assessment of geogrid-reinforced railroad ballast during cyclic loading", Transportation Geotechnics, Volume 2, March 2015:99–107. (doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.trgeo.2014.11.002).
   
  • Syed K. K. Hussaini., Indraratna, B., J.S. Vinod. (2014). "An Experimental Investigation on the Deformation and Degradation Behaviour of Geogrid-Reinforced Ballast", In J. Pombo, (Editor): "Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Railway Technology: Research, Development and Maintenance", Civil-Comp Press, Stirlingshire, UK, Paper 125, 2014. doi:10.4203/ccp.104.125
   
  • Indraratna, B., Syed K. K. Hussaini., and Vinod, J. S. (2013). “The lateral displacement response of geogrid-reinforced ballast under cyclic loading”, Geotextiles and Geomembranes, 39, 20-29.
   
  • Syed K. K. Hussaini., Indraratna, B., and J. S. Vinod (2013). “Some aspects of the shear behaviour of unreinforced and geosynthetic-reinforced rail ballast”, International Conference on Ground Improvement and Ground Control: Transport Infrastructure Development and Natural Hazards Mitigation, (pp. 889-894). Singapore: Research Publishing.
   
  • Syed K. K. Hussaini., Indraratna, B., and J. S. Vinod (2012). “Performance of geosynthetically-reinforced ballast in direct shear conditions”, In G. A. Narsilio, A. Arulrajah & J. Kodikara (Eds.), 11th Australia-New Zealand Conference on Geomechanics: Ground engineering in a Changing World (pp. 1268-1273). Australia: Engineers Australia.
   
  • Indraratna, B., Syed K. K. Hussaini., and Vinod, J. S. (2012). “On the shear behaviour of ballast-geosynthetic interfaces”, Geotechnical Testing Journal, ASTM, 35 (2), 305-312.

• • 6^th November, 2018: “An Overview of Indian Railways: Challenges and Way Ahead”, Establishment Day Function of the Bihar State Disaster Management Authority, Government of Bihar, India.