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Professor Suresh Chandra Pradhan

Aerospace Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

Education:
B. Tech (Aeronautical Engineering, Madras Institute of Technology Anna University
M. E. (Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore)
Ph.D. (Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur)

Experience:
1. Associate Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India. August 2010 -- till date
2. Assistant Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India. July 2004 -- August 2010
3. Senior Research Engineer, Institute of High Performance Computing (IHPC), Agency for Science Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore. January 1998 - June 2004.
4. Research Engineer, Centre of Computational Mechanics, Department of Mechanical and Production Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore. August 1997 -- December 1997.
5. Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Mechanical and Production Engineering, National University of Singapore, sponsored by National Science and Technology Board (NSTB) Singapore. January 1996 -- July 1997.
6. Scientist C, Structural Science Division, National Aerospace Laboratories, Bangalore - 560 017 (India). May 1995 -- January 1996.
7. Research Engineer, Transoft International Pvt Limited, 124, 24th Main, 6th Phase, J.P. Nagar, Bangalore - 560 078 (India). November 1994 -- May 1995.

Research Areas:
Aerospace structures, Nonlocal elasticity, FEM, FGM, Smart Structures, composite materials and nano-composites, Optimization

Awards and Honors:
Excellent Service Award presented by Republic of Singapore (2003)
Australian Research Council Research Associate Adelaide University Australia, 2010 (2010)
Top Ten Indian author in CNT publication along with Prof C N R Rao (2011)
Best paper published in IE(I) journal Gold Medal ()
President of India Gold Medal for best IE(I) paper (2010)

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