Shamsher Bahadur Singh

Dr. Shamsher Bahadur Singh is Fellow of American Society of Civil Engineers (F.ASCE), Chartered Engineer (INDIA), and Fellow of Institution of Engineers (F.IE), and also holds a Professional Engineering (Civil) license from Michigan State, USA. Prof. Singh is recipient of several fellowships, e.g., Post-doctorate Fellowship from Lawrence Technological University USA, Quality Improvement Program (QIP) Fellowship at Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Research fellowship at Motilal Nehru Regional Engineering College Allahabad, as well as National Merit Scholarship from Regional Engineering College Warangal, and Integrated scholarship at schools. He has 235 publications to his credit which include more than 192 research papers, 6 books [two text books, one online book, and two edited books], 13 research reports and 19 book chapters, and 02 theses, and 3 Patents. Prof. Singh has executed 40 research and consultancy projects funded by various government and non-government organizations. He won a prestigious collaborative project in collaboration with IIT Delhi and sponsored by Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO) for development of blast resistant containers. He also won US-2020 partnership award from US Department of State with collaborations from MSU, USA and IIT Delhi; was awarded a project from US-India Education Foundation, Fulbright Specialist Program to host US Specialist, at BITS Pilani, for academic year 2022; received the Best Academician of the Year -2020 award by the honourable Governor of Rajasthan, India; was selected as a member of Construction Industry Development Council Academy of Construction Engineering; was awarded Bharat Shiksha Gaurav Puraskar and Certificate of Excellence from KTK Outstanding Achievers and Education Foundation, New Delhi; won the Best Paper Awards from The Indian Concrete Journal in 2020 and ACEE2015, Penang Malaysia, in 2015 and was appointed as associate member of ACI 440 and ACI 423 committees. Prof. Singh has had an opportunity to teach in some of the best universities in India and USA such as MNNIT Allahabad, NIT Warangal, BITS Pilani, and Lawrence Technological University (LTU), Southfield, Michigan, USA. Currently, Prof. Singh is working as Senior Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani, Rajasthan, India. Other achievements, awards, and recognitions from across the globe of Prof. Singh can be seen on his personal website linked to BITS Pilani.