Prof. Swati Maitra

Dr. Swati Maitra is an Assistant Professor in Ranbir & Chitra Gupta School of Infrastructure Design and Management, IIT Kharagpur. She obtained her PhD from IIT Kharagpur and Masters’ from IIT Bombay in Civil Engineering. She is a recipient of awards like DAAD Fellowship by the German Academic Exchange Service and Bihar PWD Medal by the Indian Roads Congress. Dr. Maitra’s research area includes sustainable concrete and cementitious materials, retrofitting and rehabilitation, concrete pavement analysis, design and performance evaluation, concrete overlay or whitetopping. She has published nearly 35 technical papers in international and national journals, book chapters and proceedings of conferences, seminars and workshops. Dr. Swati Maitra teach the course Retrofitting and Rehabilitation of Infrastructure (ID60016) in IIT Kharagpur for the last 4 years.
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Prof. Sriman Kumar Bhattacharyya

Prof. Sriman Kumar Bhattacharyya is a Professor in Civil Engineering Department and presently the Deputy Director of IIT Kharagpur. He was a Former Director of CSIR-Central Building Research Institute (CBRI). Prof. Bhattacharyya’s research area includes sustainable building materials, fluid-structure interaction, structural health monitoring, FRP-concrete composite system, structural restoration, numerical modeling, and structural fire engineering. He has published about 250 technical papers in several international and national journals, book chapters, proceedings of international and national conferences, seminars, and workshops. He has developed web-based and video-based NPTEL courses titled ‘Finite element method in Engineering’ and ‘Strength of Materials’, which are currently running. He has several patents based on his research. Prof. Bhattacharyya has received several prestigious awards like ‘Distinguished Alumnus Award’ by IIEST (BESU Shibpur), ‘Concrete Technologist of the year’ by Indian Concrete Institute, ‘Telkom Best Lecturer Award’ for the best teacher in Civil Engineering at the University of Durban-Westville, South Africa and many others. Prof. S. K. Bhattacharyya teach the course Retrofitting and Rehabilitation of Infrastructure (ID60016) in IIT Kharagpur for the last 4 years.
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