Dr. Venkatesh Kodur
Professor and Director, SAFE-D Centre
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Michigan State University, USA

Prof. Kodur, Fellow of Canadian Academy of Engineering, is a Professor and Director of the Centre on Structural Fire Engineering and Diagnostics at Michigan State University. His research interests include: Evaluation of fire resistance of structural systems through large scale fire experiments and numerical modeling and Characterization of materials under high temperature. Prof. Kodur is a professional engineer, Fellow of American Society of Civil Engineers, Fellow of American Concrete Institute. He is a Foreign Fellow of Indian National Academy of Engineering, Chairman of ACI Fire Protection Committee, Chairman of ASCE-29 (Fire) Standards Committee and a member of UK-EPSRC College of Reviewers.

     

Dr. Anthony Abu
NZFS Commission Lecturer in Structural Fire Engineering
Civil & Natural Resources Engineering
University of Canterbury, New Zealand

Dr. Anthony Abu is the New Zealand Fire Service Commission Lecturer in Fire Engineering at the University of Canterbury. His PhD is in Structural Fire Engineering from the University of Sheffield, UK, on the behaviour of composite floor slabs in fire conditions. During his time at the University of Sheffield he was involved in a number of consultancy projects and the implementation of the structural fire engineering Eurocodes in the UK. He also worked with Buro Happold Engineers Ltd. on a number of structural and structural fire engineering projects that include a number of sports stadia, office complexes and airports. His areas of research include design of structures in fire conditions, fire severity of buildings, collapse mechanisms of slabs in fire conditions and design of fire exposed buildings post-earthquake. Many of his papers have been presented in national and international conferences, including PSSC 2013, 13th International Fire Science and Engineering Conference, 8th International Conference on Structures in Fire and many more.

     

Dr. Gaurav Srivastava
Assistant Professor
Civil Engineering
IIT Gandhinagar

Gaurav received his bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering from IT-BHU (now IIT-BHU), Varanasi in 2007 and his master's and doctoral degrees in Civil Engineering from the University of Minnesota in 2008 and 2011, respectively. Later, he joined the computational physics group at the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Notre Dame as a postdoctoral researcher and subsequently joined IIT Gandhinagar in 2013. His research interests include development of efficient analysis methods for large dynamical systems, multi-physics modeling of physical phenomena and study of behavior of structures subjected to fire.

     

Dr. Dhiman Basu
Assistant Professor
Civil Engineering
IIT Gandhinagar

Dr. Dhiman Basu is a faculty member in the discipline of civil engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar. His research interest includes rotational seismology, ground motion characterization, supplemental damping, irregular buildings and confined masonry and he is also involved in developing a network of early earthquake warning systems in India at Present. Dr. Basu received BE (civil Engg) from Jadavpur University (1995), MTech (structural engg) from IIT Kanpur (1998) and Phd (Structural Engg) from SUNY Buffalo (2012).