Dr. Subrata Chakraborty is a Professor and former Head of Civil Engineering at the Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur. He is a fellow of the Indian National Academy Engineering and the Institution of Engineers (India). Prof. Chakraborty did his Bachelor in Civil Engineering from Bengal Engineering College in 1991, Shibpur, M. Tech. and PhD from IIT Kharagpur in 1993, and 1997, respectively. He was a postdoctoral researcher at University of Cambridge, UK and University of Arizona, USA and Technical University of Aachen, Germany.

In general, Prof. Chakraborty’s research interest lies in the field of computational mechanics under uncertainty, structural health monitoring, stochastic vibration control, fibre reinforced composites etc. As an independent researcher, he has completed a number of research projects funded by various agencies (e.g. the DST, UGC, CSIR etc.) and is also active in international collaborative research. He has supervised nine doctoral and sixty master theses besides guiding several projects at undergraduate level. Prof. Chakraborty published more than 90 technical articles in international peer reviewed journals, also authored textbook and book chapters. He regularly reviewed research articles for various journals of ASCE, John Wiley, Elsevier Science, Springer, SAGE, Taylor and Francis, Techno Press etc. Prof. Chakraborty was the Managing Editor of International Journal of Engineering under Uncertainty: Hazards, Assessment, and Mitigation and was an associate editor of the Journal of Science and Technology, associate editor of J of Institution of Engineers Series A, Springer. He is one of the section editor of INAE Letters and editorial member of International Journal of Control Engineering and Technology (IJCET), Journal of Structural Engg and Management. He has been nominated as the alternate member of design code of steel structures, IS 800, 2007 CED:7.

Besides being an outstanding researcher and a devoted teacher, he is also active in important industrial consultancy e.g. quality control assurance services of thermal power plant, checking structural integrity of one of the tallest residential buildings of Kolkata, RCC Jetty, underground reservoir, pumping station, hydroelectric power station, railway bridges, ropeways, health monitoring of Vidysagar Setu, Water Transmission Project from Hooghly River to New Town, Rajarhat etc.

While his inspiring teaching coupled with innate urge for intensive research has already established him as a distinguished academician at the national level, several awards and laurels have come his way. The Humboldt Fellowship for Experienced Researchers, the V. H. Joshi Award for Significant Contributions in Structural Dynamics, the INAE Young Engineer Award, the BOYSCAST Fellowship award, and the Young Faculty Research Award deserve special mention.