Sudhir Kumar Jain, referred to as Sudhir K. Jain (born 1959) is the ''incumbent'' and 28th

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. He is a civil engineer by education and has formerly served three terms as the founding director of the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar. He has carried out intensive research and development in the fields of s eismic design codes, dynamic of buildings, and post-earthquake studies. Beside these, Jain has actively participated in teaching, research activities and development in

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focused on developing countries. He is an elected fellow of

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. He was also elected a member of U.S.

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(2021) for leadership in earthquake engineering in developing countries. He has served as the president of International Association of Earthquake Engineering (IAEE) from 2014 to 2018. He also served on the engineering and computer science jury for the

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from 2019.

Education

Jain earned Bachelor of Civil Engineering from the

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(now IIT Roorkee) in 1979, and masters, and doctoral degrees from the

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in 1980 and 1983 respectively.

Awards and honors

*Thomson Memorial Gold Medal (1979) *Robert A Millikan Fellowship (1982) *

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for Science & Engineering (8 November 2021) *

Distinguished Alumni Award (2022) *

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Distinguished Alumnus Award-2018

Selected bibliography

Books

*Earthquake rebuilding in Gujarat, India: an EERI recovery reconnaissance report *Engineering Response to Hazards of Terrorism

Articles

*Earthquake safety in India: achievements, challenges and opportunities *Simplified seismic analysis of soil–well–pier system for bridges *Code Approaches to Seismic Design of Masonry-Infilled Reinforced Concrete Frames: A State-of-the-Art Review *Analysis of earth dams affected by the 2001 Bhuj Earthquake *Seismic torsional vibration in elevated tanks Sudhir K Jain Cropped Padma Shree Award

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