Ruchi Shrestha

Ruchi Shrestha is a Staff Geotechnical Engineer II at GeoEngineers Inc., based in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where she works on transportation, coastal, and industrial infrastructure projects. Her work involves detailed subsurface investigations, laboratory data interpretation, and geotechnical analyses that support safe and efficient design of foundations, embankments, and coastal systems.

At GeoEngineers, Ruchi coordinates drilling and testing operations, develops geotechnical design profiles, and performs analyses including slope stability, bearing capacity, settlement, pile design, and CPT interpretation. Through this work, she has developed a strong appreciation for how complex soil–structure interactions can be better understood through data-driven insights and modeling.

Ruchi completed her Master of Science in Civil Engineering (Geotechnical Engineering) at Boise State University, where her research focused on Microbial Induced Calcite Precipitation (MICP) as a sustainable soil stabilization technique. She also served as a Teaching Assistant, guiding students in courses such as Soil Mechanics, Construction Materials, and Computational Methods.

Before graduate school, she worked as a Civil Engineer at CE Construction Pvt. Ltd. in Kathmandu, Nepal, gaining field and design experience in residential and commercial projects.

Motivated by her professional and academic experiences, Ruchi now seeks to pursue doctoral research that explores the computational and data-driven aspects of geotechnical engineering—bridging physical understanding of soils with emerging analytical and modeling approaches to address modern infrastructure challenges.