Our Team Shines at AAKAAR’s 17th Edition at IIT Bombay.
We are proud to announce that our young and talented team achieved remarkable success at AAKAAR’s 17th edition, hosted by the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. The team secured the 1st runner-up position in the overall category.
Adding to this achievement, their paper titled "MVMD for Modal Identification and Damage Detection" was awarded the prestigious title of Best Paper in the Structures Category. Congratulations to the entire team for their outstanding performance and contribution to the field!
Mr. Mehulkumar and Ms. Anshu Sharma, published a preprint, titled "Investigating dimensionally-reduced highly-damped systems with multivariate variational mode decomposition: An experimental approach" on March 6, 2025, and can be accessed through the arXiv identifier 2503.11689.
Dr. Bhowmik recently delivered an Invited Talk on the Faculty Development Program, sharing his insights on Recent Advancements in Structural Health Monitoring. His session highlighted cutting-edge techniques and emerging trends shaping the future of SHM, sparking engaging discussions among the attendees.
Dr Bhowmik embraces an exciting new role as an Editor for Nature's Scientific Reports, stepping into fresh responsibilities and opportunities for learning in this prestigious position.
The OSCAR Lab proudly announces its recent acceptance of 2 papers at the 11th International Operational Modal Analysis Conference (IOMAC), which will be held from May 20th to 23rd, 2025, in Rennes, France.
The OSCAR Lab celebrates the new achievement of paper acceptance at the ASCE International Conference on Challenges and Innovations for Sustainable Smart Cities (CISSC-2025).
We proudly announce that our esteemed alumnus, Mr. Raj Singh, has impressively secured a Grade A officer position at Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL), Mumbai. Congratulations, Raj!
Mr. Raj Singh achieved a remarkable feat by securing an All India Rank of 81 in GATE 2024.
Ms. Anshu Sharma published a preprint, titled "WHEN FIRE ATTACKS: HOW DOES CONCRETE STAND UP TO HEAT?" on August 29, 2024, and can be accessed through arXiv identifier 2408.15756.
Ms. Anshu Sharma published her first preprint, titled "A Position Paper for Explainable Investigations on Thermal and Structural Behavior of Concrete Under Extreme Fire Loading" on August 12, 2024, and can be accessed through SSRN (ID: 4901385).
Dr. Bhowmik served on the National Advisory Committee of the Fourth International Conference on Sustainable Energy, Environment, and Green Technologies (ICSEEGT 2024). This event was organised by Poornima College of Engineering, Jaipur, from August 9-10, 2024, and supported by the ANRF.
Dr. Bhowmik delivered a Keynote Talk at the International Conference on Emerging Technologies. Find the Keynote presentation here on the topic "Revolutionizing Infrastructure Safety: How Can We Ensure the Health of Our Urban Infrastructures?". Media outlets covered the presentation and it was highlighted in the Navbharat Pune newspaper.
Mr. Raj Singh defended his Master's Thesis titled "Damage assessment of a bridge under varied loading conditions using a modal identification strategy" on May 31, 2024. Congratulations Raj - the first Master's candidate from the OSCAR Lab!
Ms. Anshu Sharma joined the OSCAR Lab as a Ph.D. candidate on December 27, 2023. Her work will mostly focus on real-time structural health monitoring of built infrastructures.
Dr. Bhowmik delivered an Invited Talk on "Real-time Structural Health Monitoring of BuiltInfrastructures: Contemporary Approaches and Learnings" at the International Conference on Condition Assessment, Rehabilitation & Retrofitting of Structures (CARRS 2023), hosted by IIT Hyderabad, from 11-13th December 2023.
Dr. Bhowmik delivered a Keynote Talk at the 3rd International Conference on Sustainable Energy, Environment and Green Technologies (ICSEEGT 2023), Poornima College of Engineering, Rajasthan, on June-27, 2023.
Dr. Bhowmik has organized the Minisymposium on Advances in bridge health monitoring at the ASCE-EMI conference in Georgia Tech from June 6-9, 2023.
Basuraj delivered an Invited Talk for the Training Program for Department Engineers and Officials of Tribal Affairs Department, Bhopal under CM Rise Yojana on 17th May 2023. Find the presentation here that was delivered at IIT(BHU), Department of Civil Engineering.
The OSCAR Lab welcomes the new batch of winter interns from reputed Indian institutes. Keep checking out this space for the exciting work our interns will be producing! Meet our interns here.
Dr. Bhowmik has been invited as a Keynote Speaker at the 2023 International Conference on Civil Engineering and Architectural Design (CEAD 2023) organized by the International Association of Applied Science and Applications (IAAST), from May 13-14, 2023.
Dr. Bhowmik has been invited as a Speaker for the 12th Structural Engineering Convention (SEC 2022) organized by MNIT Jaipur, India, from 19-22 Dec 2022.
Dr. Bhowmik delivered the Keynote at the 3rd International Conference on Sustainable Construction Technologies and Advancements in Civil Engineering (ScTACE) on the 15th of December, 2022.
Basuraj was invited as a Panelist at the Center For Sustainable Infrastructure and Systems, Mahindra University, Hyderabad, India, from 28-29 Oct 2022.
Dr. Bhowmik organized a Special Session at EWSHM 2022 (Palermo, Italy) with Profs. Vikram Pakrashi (University College Dublin, Ireland) and Eleni Chatzi (ETH Zurich) on Real-time monitoring of built infrastructure. Read more about it here.
Basuraj joined the Institute in June 2022.
Dr. Bhowmik received the Best Reviewer Award at CTCS 2022.