Sudhirkumar V Barai — Director of Engineering
Sudhirkumar Barai is a Director and Senior Professor of Civil Engineering at BITS Pilani-Pilani campus, Rajasthan. He is also a Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur 721 302, India availing lien for the current position . In 1995, he obtained Ph.D (Eng.) from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. He received the degrees of B.E.(Civil) and M.E.(Civil) with specialization in Structural Engineering in 1987 and 1989, respectively, from the Faculty of Engineering, MS University of Baroda, Baroda, India. He was Erskine Visiting Fellow at University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand during May-June 2008. He was also visiting scientist at National University of Singapore during May-July 2003. He was recipient of BOYSCAST fellowship and visited Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA during May-November, 2000. He was a post-doctoral fellow at Department of Solid Mechanics, Materials and Structures, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel during February, 1997-July, 1998. 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. Expertise: 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. Bio Sketch: https://www.bits-pilani.ac.in/uploads/Sudhirkumar%20Barai_Bio-sketch-September%202022.pdf
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Location: Kharagpur, West Bengal, India
Experience: 30 yrs 5 mos
Career Highlights
- Published over 240 research papers.
- Co-authored three books on structural engineering.
- Expert in green technology and recycled construction materials.
Work Experience
Springer Nature in India
Member, India Research Advisory Council (IRAC) (9 mos)
Vijaybhoomi University
Member, BOG (10 mos)
Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani
Chair, [BITS-UB / BITS-ISU: 2+2 International Collaborative Programmes] (11 mos)
Director - BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus and Senior Professor, Department of Civil Engineering (1 yr)
Chair/Co-Chair - BITS RMIT Higher Education Academy (3 yrs)
Ganpat University
Member - Academic Council (1 yr 2 mos)
Yeshwantrao Chavan College of Engineering - YCCE
Member, Academic Council (1 yr 9 mos)
BITS Pilani
Board of Director (BoD) SATHI Foundation (2 yrs 3 mos)
FICCI
Co-Chair, FICCI Committee on Innovation (2 yrs 3 mos)
The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda (MSUB), Vadodara
Expert Member- Board of Studies in Applied Mechanics (2 yrs 7 mos)
BITS-Technology Enabling Centre (BITS-TEC), BITS Pilani
Co-Chair, Program Advisory Group (2 yrs 10 mos)
BITS Law School, Mumbai
Member, Board of Governors (3 yrs 1 mo)
Shriram Institute For Industrial Research
Member Research Advisory Committee Material Sciences Division (3 yrs 7 mos)
NICMAR University
Member, Academic Council (3 yrs 6 mos)
Member, NICMAR Journal Editorial Advisory Board (5 yrs 6 mos)
SYMBIOSIS INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY
Member, Academic Council (2 yrs)
BITS BioCyTiH Foundation
Board of Director (BoD) (5 yrs 3 mos)
Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani
Director-in-Charge : International programmes and Collaboration (2 yrs 5 mos)
Director - BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus and Senior Professor, Department of Civil Engineering (5 yrs)
PIEDS : Pilani Innovation & Entrepreneurship Development Society, BITS Pilani
Vice President (6 yrs 2 mos)
Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar
Visitor's Nominee (3 yrs)
Indian Institute of Technology, Tirupati
Visitor's Nominee (3 yrs)
GMR Institute of Technology (GMRIT), GMR Nagar, Rajam, Srikakulam Dt.,-532127 (CC-34))
Member, BOS, Department of Civil Engineering (2 yrs 7 mos)
Indrashil University
Member, BOS on Civil Engineering (6 mos)
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
Dean (Undergraduate Studies) (3 yrs 4 mos)
Institute of Infrastructure Technology Research and Management (IITRAM)
Member, Academic Council (9 yrs 9 mos)
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
Chairman, Career Development Center (Formerly known as T&P Section) (1 yr 11 mos)
Professor-in-charge, Training and Placement (1 yr 8 mos)
Professor-in-charge, IPR & IR @ SRIC (2 yrs 2 mos)
Chairman (11 mos)
Vice Chairman (2 yrs 11 mos)
Visiting Faculty, Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Professor, Civil Engineering (27 yrs 7 mos)
Department of Science and Technology DST, Ministry of Science and Technology
Member, Programme Advisory Committee (PAC) on Development of Technology Systems (4 yrs 2 mos)
University of Canterbury
Erskine Visiting Fellow (1 mo)
National University of Singapore
Visiting Scientist (2 mos)
Carnegie Mellon University
BOYSCAST Fellow (6 mos)
EMRC Engineering Mechanics Research (India) Ltd.
Senior Research Analyst (2 yrs 9 mos)
Education
Post-Doctoral Fellow at Tel Aviv University
PhD (Engg) at Indian Institute of Science (IISc)
M.E. at The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda (MSUB), Vadodara
B.E. at The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda (MSUB), Vadodara
at Shri Pratap High School, Baroda
