INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY

CIVIL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT                                               STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING

• Organized (as Co-PI) IUSSTF-NSF Indo-US Workshop on 'Innovative Materials and Structural Systems for Resilient and Sustainable Built Infrastructure' jointly with Michigan State University at IIT   Bombay on 14-15 December, 2009.

• Member of the Local Organizing Committee, 3rd International Congress on Computational Mechanics and Simulation (ICCMS09) to be held at IIT-Bombay on 1-5 December 2009.

• Program committee member of the SPIE conference on Health Monitoring and Smart NDE of Structural and Biological Systems VI, San Diego, California 2008 & 2009.

• Organized and Co-chaired a mini-symposium on 'Mechanics in Structural Health Monitoring', 15th U.S. National Congress on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA, June 25-30, 2006

• Chaired a session on 'Guided Waves and Vibration Based SHM techniques' in the SPIE's 14th international symposium on Smart Structures/NDE, San Diego, California, March 18-23, 2007

•  Structural Health Monitoring

• Structural Control and Health Monitoring

•  Ultrasonics

• Research in Nondestructive Evaluation

•  Journal of Intelligent Materials Systems and Structures

•  International Journal of Solids and Structures

•  Mechanics of Materials

•  Modeling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering

• Composites Science and Technology

• MECCANICA

• Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems (JMEMS)

• Developed nondestructive testing (NDT) training modules for a full day training session for Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) course on 'Aircraft Structures for Inspectors', (course number 28451). The course was delivered along with hands-on NDT experiments for a week to 13 certified FAA inspectors at Saint Louis University, USA, July 9-13, 2007.

• Held lecture sessions of the Industry Technical Training for FLSmidth Engineers, conducted by Civil Engineering Department from April 17-July 17, 2010 (Coordinators: Prof. S. L. Dhingra and Prof. R. S. Jangid)

• Held lecture sessions of the CEP/QIP short term course on 'Finite Element Method and Applications in Civil Engineering' three times in 2009, 2010, 2011 (Coordinators Prof. Y.M.Desai and Prof. T. I. Eldho)

• Invited lecture: 'Ultrasonic Guided Waves for Large Area NDI of Metallic and Composite Structures – Modelling, Simulation and Signal Processing', Pre-Conference Tutorial on 'Signal Analysis, Simulation and Modeling', National NDE Seminar, NDE-2010, Kolkata, December 7, 2010

• Invited lecture: 'Finite Element Modeling of Wave Propagation and Vibration Problems with Applications to Structural Health Monitoring', Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute (VJTI), Matunga, Mumbai, January 21, 2011

• Invited lecture: 'Ultrasonic Guided Waves for Large Area NDI of Metallic and Composite Structures', ISRO Satellite Centre, Bangalore, February 2, 2011.

• American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) 2003-2008

• American Society of Nondestructive Testing (ASNT) 2005-2008

• Society of Experimental Mechanics (SEM) 2006-2008

• American Society of Engineering Education 2007-2008

• Strathmore's Who's Who 2004-2005

• Faculty Advisor for BTech Batch 2008-2012, IIT Bombay

• Department Undergraduate Committee, IIT Bombay, Jan 2011-present.

• Graduate Research Affairs Committee, Saint Louis University, Jan. 2007- June 2008.

• Research Peer Review Committee, Saint Louis University, Aug. 2006- June 2008.

• Undergraduate Academic Affairs Committee, Saint Louis University, Aug. 2006-Dec. 2007.

• Served on the judging committee of the Billiken BEST Robotics Competition, Saint Louis University, 2005, 2006 and 2007.