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My research interests are in the broad areas of
structural dynamics, structural system identification, structural
reliability analysis, random vibrations and earthquake engineering. I am
currently working on application of nonlinear dynamic state estimation
methods to problems of structural system identification and reliability
model updating, hybrid simulation methods in earthquake engineering using
shake table and reaction wall based systems, multi-variate extreme value
theory, and Monte Carlo simulation based reliability analysis of dynamical
systems using variance reduction schemes. I received ME (Civil, 1984) and
PhD (1989) from the Indian Institute of Science. I worked as a scientist at
the Structural Engineering Research Centre, Madras (1990-91) and as a Research
Assistant at the Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, UK (1991-93). I joined the Department
of Civil Engineering, IISc in 1993 as an Assistant Professor and I have
been in this Department since then. Presently, I hold the position of
Professor in this Department and I am also serving as the Department
Chairman. I served as the Chairman of the Centre for Earth Sciences at IISc
during 2007-2010 after the Centre was established during July 2007. I have
held visiting positions at the University of Delaware (May 2003), and at the Johns Hopkins University (June-July 2003), USA. I have received research funding
from various agencies within India including, DAE, DST, CSIR, ISRO,
Indian Railways, BHEL, Delphi Automotive Systems and DRDO. A
collaborative research project, in the area of fire following earthquakes
and structures under fire, with University of Edinburgh (UK) and IIT
Roorkee, is currently underway with support from UKIERI.
Curriculum vitae
Created on 30th
December 2010
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