Structural Dynamics (M.Tech IYear-1Sem)

Professor Pradipta Banerji is a Professor of Structural Engineering at IIT Bombay, where he has been since 1988. He graduated with a B.Tech. degree from IIT Delhi in 1981, securing the Director's Silver Medal as the top-ranked graduating student in Civil Engineering. He has been the recipient of the exclusive National Science Talent Scholarship in India. He then completed an M.S. and a Ph.D. in Structural Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, USA, with a specialization in Earthquake Engineering. During this period at Berkeley, he was awarded the UC Regents' Fellowship twice, the prestigious Popert Research Fellowship, and a Distinguished Teaching Award.

He is a member of several professional societies and is a member of the executive council of the International Society for Health Monitoring of Intelligent Infrastructure. Furthermore, he is a member of the Committee for Capacity Building of the World Federation of Engineering Organizations under UNESCO, and a member of the African Science Committee under the Nelson Mandela Foundation. He has spent short periods of a few months each as a Visiting Research Professor at the University of Manitoba, Canada and the University of Stuttgart, Germany.