Organizing Committee Member
Achintya Haldar
Professor
University of Arizona, Tucson
U.S.A.
Biography
Professor Achintya Haldar completed his PhD from University of Illinois. He worked for Bechtel Power Corporation after graduation. After returning to academic career, he taught at Illinois Institute of Technology, Georgia Tech, and now at the University of Arizona. He is a Distinguished member of ASCE and a Fellow of SEI. He received Presidential award from President Reagan and NSF. Recently, he proposed a novel technique to design more damage-tolerant structures excited by dynamic loadings (earthquake, wind, wave, thermo-mechanical loading in electronic packaging used in computer chips, etc.) by conducting multiple deterministic analyses. Earlier, he developed the Stochastic Finite Element Method and many reliability evaluation concepts applicable to many engineering disciplines. He received numerous research and teaching awards listed at haldar.faculty.arizona.edu. He authored over 600 technical articles including several well accepted books.
Research Area
His most recent research is on structural health assessment. He proposed several Kalman filter-based concepts.