Prof. Amit Shaw

Prof. Amit Shaw is presently an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Kharagpur. He obtained his Bachelors degree in Civil Engineering from IIEST Shibur (formerly Bengal Engineering College Shibpur) in 2000, MTech in Structures from IIT Roorkee in 2003 and PhD in Computational Mechanics from IISc Bangalore in 2007. Prior to joining IIT Kharagpur, Professor Shaw spent two years as Research Fellow in University of Aberdeen, UK. He also worked for some time in industries like Gammon India Limited and L&T ECC. Professor Shaw’s research area is in the field of Computational Mechanics and Impact Dynamics.

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Prof. Biswanath Banerjee

Prof. Biswanath Banerjee is presently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Kharagpur. He obtained his Bachelors degree in Construction Engineering from Jadavpur University in 2000, MTech in Structures from IIT Kharagpur in 2004 and PhD in Computational Mechanics from IISc Bangalore in 2009. Prior to joining IIT Kharagpur, Professor Banerjee spent two years as Post-doctoral Research Fellow in Cornell University, USA. He has also spent for some time in industries like Gammon India Limited, TRF Limited (A Tata enterprise) and Research labs in SERC Chennai (A CSIR Unit) as a Scientist.Professor Banerjees research area is in the field of Computational Mechanics and Reverse Engineering Problems.