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Prof. Sudhirkumar Barai

Senior Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Director, BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus
Education
Bachelor of Engineering 1987 Civil Engineering MS University, Baroda, India Master of Engineering 1989 Civil Engineering MS University, Baroda, India Ph.D. 1995 Civil Engineering Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
Pilani Campus

Professional Activity

Designation                                Department                         University/Institute                                      Duration

Director/Senior Professor          Teaching, Research               BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus             Jan 2020-Till date

Professor                                   Teaching, Research               IIT, Kharagpur, India                       June 10- Till date

Associate Professor                  Teaching, Research               IIT, Kharagpur, India                      Aug 04- June 10

Erskine Visiting Fellow              Teaching, Research             University of Canterbury, NZ           May 08-June 08

Assistant Professor                  Teaching, Research              IIT, Kharagpur, India                       May 99- Aug 04

Visiting Scientist                       Research                             NUS, Singapore                              May 03- July 03

BOYSCAST Fellow                 Research                              CMU, Pittsburgh, USA                    May 00- Nov 00

Visiting Faculty                       Teaching, Research               IIT, Kharagpur, India                      Sept 98-May 99

Post-doctoral Fellow               Research                             Tel Aviv Uni., Tel Aviv, Israel           Feb 97-July 98

Senior Research Analyst        R&D, Consultancy               EMRC, Bangalore, India                May 94-Feb 97

Research Scholar                  Research                             IISc, Bangalore, India                     Feb 89- May94

Research Areas

  • Structural Health Monitoring
  • Recycled Construction Materials
  • Fracture in Concrete
  • Data analytics and Soft Computing Applications

Specialties

  • Engineering Fields: Green Technology, Recycled Construction Materials, Computational Techniques, Fracture Mechanics, Sensitivity Analysis, Damage Assessment Methodologies, MEMS applications
  • Interdisciplinary Fields: Computer Aided Engineering, Artificial Intelligence; Knowledge Based Expert Systems, Fuzzy Logic and Neural Networks, Internet based applications in Engineering Problems.

Positions of Responsibility

  • Director, BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus (January 2020 – Present)
  • Director-in-charge, International Programmes and Collaboration Division (IPCD) (July 2020-December 2022)
  • Vice President, PIEDS: Pilani Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development Society, (Feb 2020-Present)
  • Board of Director, BITS BioCyTIH Foundation (Jan 2021-Present)
  • Dean, Undergraduate Studies, IIT Kharagpur (August 2016- January 2020)
  • Chairman, Career Development Centre, IIT Kharagpur (January 2014 –December 2015)
  • Prof-in-charge, Training and Placement office (April 2012 – January 2014)
  • Prof-in-charge, Intellectual Property Rights and Industrial Relations (August 2011 – October 2013)
  • Chairman, GATE 2011 – 1 year
  • Vice Chairman, GATE 2008 (Organizing Institute: JMET 2008), GATE 2009, GATE 2010 – 3 years
  • Chairman, Kshitij 2010, 2012 and Co-chairman, Kshitij 2007 - Techno-management Festival

Professional Society Memberships

  • Fellow, IEI (India)
  • Fellow, Association of Consulting Civil Engineers (India)
  • Senior Member: RILEM
  • Professional Member: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
  • Member: International Association for Life-Cycle Civil Engineering (IALCCE)
  • Life Member: Institute of Smart Structures and Systems (ISSS)
  • Member: International Association of Engineers (IAENG)
  • Life Member: Indian Concrete Institute (ICI), Chennai
  • Member: International Association for Bridge Maintenance and Safety (IABMS)
  • Member: Young Researchers Committee, World Federation for Soft Computing (WFSC)
  • Life Member: The Indian Science Congress Association (ISCA)
  • Associate Member: The International Society of Structure and Multidisciplinary Optimization (ISSMO)
  • Life Member: Indian Roads Congress (IRC)
  • Life Member: Indian Association for Structural Engineering (IASE)
  • Life Member: Indian Association for Computational Mechanics (IACM)
  • Life Member: The Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE)
  • Life Member: American Society for Civil Engineers India Section (ASCE IS)
  • Life Member: Indian Society for Construction Material and Structures (ISCMS)
  • Member - Integrating Advanced Structural Analysis with Structural Reliability Analysis (ASRANet) - EPSRC Fund Network
  • Member - Working Group of Soft Computing in Image Processing (SCIP)
  • Corresponding member, Bridge Maintenance and Rehabilitation (B-9), Committee, Indians Roads Congress 2003-2005
  • Member: EURO Working Group on Stochastic Modelling, http://www.math.vu.nl/euro/index.php
  • Member - Technical Committee RAC - Structural behaviour and innovation of recycled aggregate concrete, RILEM (2015)
  • Member - Technical Committee TDK - Testing methods for determination of double-K criterion for crack propagation in concrete, RILEM (2011)

Publications

He has published more than 240+ papers in leading international journals and conferences in his research fields. He has co‐authored three books‐ (1) Concrete Fracture Models and Applications (2) Shear Strengthening of T‐beam with GFRP: A Systematic Approach and (3) Systematic Approach of Characterisation and Behaviour of Recycled Aggregate Concrete, which have been published by Springer. He has also co-edited two books – (1) Advances in Sustainable Construction Materials and Geotechnical Engineering (2) Stability and Failure of High Performance Composite Structures, published by Springer.