
Dr. Rohan Majumder
Designation: Assistant Professor
Academic Area: Structural Engineering
Brief Profile:
Dr. Rohan Majumder holds a PhD in Civil (Structure) Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IITK), M.E. in Structural Engineering from the Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology (IIEST) Shibpur, Howrah, West Bengal and B.Tech in Civil Engineering from West Bengal University of Technology (WBUT). Prior to joining IIT Kanpur as a PhD research scholar, he served as an Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Civil Engineering at Sir Padampat Singhania University, Udaipur, Rajasthan. His research interest lies in the area of structural stability, mechanics, reliability and safety-based design and AI-ML based applications in structural analysis. Currently, he has 4 SCI (Q1) indexed peer reviewed journal papers and 5 Scopus indexed book chapters.
- PhD in Civil Engineering (Structure) from IIT Kanpur.
- M.E. in Civil (Structure) Engineering from IIEST Shibpur.
- B.Tech in Civil Engineering from West Bengal University of Technology.
- Currently associated as an Assistant Professor at Adani University (December 2024 – till date) in the Dept. of Civil and Infrastructure Engineering.
- Served as an Assistant Professor at Sir Padampat Singhania University Udaipur (July 2014 – July 2018) in the Dept. of Civil Engineering.
Membership of Professional Bodies
- Affiliate Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).
- Member of the Institution of Engineers (India), Civil Engineering Division, Membership ID: M1717213.
- Life Member of the Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE), Membership ID: LM121283.
- Member of The International Association of Engineers (IAENG), Membership Number: 204336.
- Associate Member of the Indian Association of Structural Engineers, Membership Number AM – 243.
- Member of The Council of Engineering and Technology, India (CETI), Membership No. 40102 of Civil Engg., Division.
- Associate Member of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE). Membership No: INAE/Ind M/034.
- Selected as a recipient of the Fellowship for Academic and Research Excellence (FARE) award by IIT Kanpur post PhD Thesis submission (October 2024).
- Qualified GATE in 2012. (AIR – 1474).
Stability of structures, Reliability/Safety based design of structures, post buckling behaviour of shells and plates, AI based applications in structural engineering with special focus on both conventional (data driven) as well as physics informed neural networks.
Peer-reviewed journals (SCI/SCIE)
- Majumder R., Mishra SK., 2024, Reliability Consistent Knockdown Factors for Truncated Conical Shells via Artificial Neural Network (ANN) based Prediction and Metamodeling, Thin-Walled Structures, 205, 112541. (Q1)
- Majumder R., Mishra SK., Chakraborty S., 2024, A Reliability-based design against post-buckling load drop in Spherical Shell Cap with Stochastic Imperfections, International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics, 165, 104794. (Q1)
- Majumder R., Mishra SK, 2024, Consistent meta-modelling approach for a less-conservative reliability-based design of shells against buckling, Applied Mathematical Modelling, 130, 327-345. (Q1)
- Majumder R., Chakraborty S., Mishra SK., 2023, Reliability Analysis and Design of Randomly Imperfect Thin Cylindrical Shells against Post-Critical Drops, Thin-Walled Structures, 185, 110576. (Q1).
Book Chapters (Scopus Indexed)
- Majumder R., Mishra SK., 2023, Reliability Based Design Optimization (RBDO) of Randomly Imperfect Thin Cylindrical Shells Against Post-Critical Drop, Chapter 5, Recent Developments in Structural Engineering, Vol. (1), Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, Vol. (52), Springer Nature.
- Dutta SC., Majumder R., 2019, Shape Memory Alloy (SMA) as a potential damper in structural vibration control, Advances in Manufacturing Engineering and Materials, Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering, Springer Switzerland, 485-492.
- Raut SN., Majumder R., Jain A., Mehta V., 2019, Analysis of the behaviour of high-rise structures with viscoelastic dampers installed at various locations. Innovations in Infrastructure, Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing book series (AISC, Vol. – 757), Springer Singapore, 183-194.
- Majumder R., Ghosh A., 2015, Performance Study of a SMA bracing system for Control of Vibration due to Underground Blast Induced Ground Motion, Advances in Structural Engineering, Vol (1), Springer India, 393-404.
National and International Conference Proceedings
- Majumder R., Mishra SK., Predicting Post-critical Load Drop in Conical Shells through Artificial Neural Network. Proceedings of 18th East Asia Pacific Conference on Structural Engineering and Construction (EASEC – 18), Chiang Mai, Thailand, November 13 – 15, 2024.
- Majumder R., Mishra SK., Reliability Based Design Optimization (RBDO) of Randomly Imperfect Thin Cylindrical Shells Against Post-Critical Drop, Proceedings of 13th Structural Engineering Convention (SEC), VNIT Nagpur, December 7 – 9, 2023.
- Mehta V., Majumder R., Jain A., A computational analysis of the behaviour of RC framed structures due to blast load, Proceedings of 16th Symposium of Earthquake Engineering (SEE), IIT Roorkee, December 18 – 21, 2018.
- Majumder R., Jain A., An optimality study on Non-Linear SMA-SDOF System, Proceedings of 13th International Conference on Vibration Problems (ICOVP), Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati and ISIK University, Turkey, November 29 – December 2, 2017.
- Majumder R., Ghosh A., Control of Structural Vibrations due to Underground Blast using SMA dampers, Proceedings of 58th Congress of Indian Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (ISTAM), Bengal Engineering and Science University, Shibpur, Howrah, India, December 19 – 21, 2013.
Vetting of Civil/Structural Design and Drawings.
FDPs
- Faculty Development Program on Pedagogy for Effective Education and Reflection (FDP-PEER) conducted by the Teaching Learning Centre, BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus (19th February 2025 – 22nd February 2025),
- AICTE approved Faculty Development Program (FDP 101x) on Foundation Program in ICT for Education conducted by Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (August 3, 2017 – September 7, 2017), under the aegis of Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya National Mission for Teachers and Teaching (PMMMNMTT), MHRD, GOI.
- AICTE approved Faculty Development Program (FDP 201x) on Pedagogy for Online and Blended Teaching-Learning Process conducted by Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (September 14, 2017 – November 20, 2017), under the aegis of Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya National Mission for Teachers and Teaching (PMMMNMTT), MHRD, GOI.
Served as a Teaching Assistant (TA) /Tutor in several UG/PG courses at IIT Kanpur from 2018 to 2023. Also served as a senior level Research Assistant (RA) on several R&D projects:
- Research Associate in the project titled “Study of Structural Integrity of Submerged Intake Structures with Variation in Tehri Reservoir Water Head with Particular Reference to the Construction and Lift Joints”, August 2023 – December 2023, IIT Kanpur, P.I. – Dr. Sudib Kumar Mishra, Professor, IIT Kanpur.
- Research Associate in the project titled “Miscellaneous”, January 2024 – May 2024, IIT Kanpur, P.I. – Dr. Sudib Kumar Mishra, Professor, IIT Kanpur.
- Research Associate in the project titled “LDA for Advanced Construction Materials Characterization Fund”, June 2024 – December 2024, P.I. – Dr. KV Harish, Associate Professor, IIT Kanpur.
- Tutor for Mechanics of Solids, 2021-22, II Semester, IIT Kanpur.