Arpan Singh, a third year MS by Research student in Civil Engineering, working under the supervision of Dr. Sunitha Palissery has been offered Ph.D admissions at the Department of Civil Engineering in the Meguro-Numada Laboratory at the University of Tokyo (UTokyo), beginning in the fall of 2023. He has been selected as one of the 8 international candidates for the MEXT scholarship of the Japanese government through a highly competitive screening process.