TEAM MEMBERS

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Dr. Basuraj Bhowmik

Basuraj is a Lecturer in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Strathclyde, UK. Earlier, he was serving as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology - Banaras Hindu University (IIT-BHU). He received his Ph.D. in Structural Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati and graduated from the National Institute of Technology Agartala with a B.Tech in Civil Engineering. Dr. Bhowmik was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at University College Dublin, Ireland. He worked with Siemens Power and Gas as a Senior Executive in the area of vibration-based condition monitoring of gas turbines.

Basuraj actively works in the area of renewable energy system downtime detection, with a special emphasis on wind turbines. His Scholar profile can be accessed here. He is involved in developing computationally effective real-time algorithms for structural health monitoring and exploring new methodologies for data assimilation of complex systems – ranging across civil, mechanical, and aerospace systems – with a focus on sparse sensor data analytics, machine-learning algorithms, and online modal identification. His awards include the Best Reviewer Award at CTCS 2022 and the prestigious MILCA Award for Academics by the Confederation of Indian Industries. He is also an international award recipient of the coveted Research Excellence Award at the Annual MaREI Symposium, in Ireland.

Basuraj is open to collaborations and participation in funding calls.

OSCAR doctoral candidates

Ms. Anshu Sharma: October 01, 2025 - Present.

Anshu has completed her postgraduation from the MBM University, Jodhpur, India, with excellent grades. She will be working in Structural Health Monitoring with PINNs. She is a student member of the Institute of Civil Engineers (ICE), Glasgow & West of Scotland Branch.

OSCAR POSTGRADS

Innocent Okot: MSc Civil Engineering, 2025 - 2026.

Innocent is an international undergraduate student, working in Structural health monitoring of built infrastructures.

OSCAR UNDERGRADS

Zihan Zhang: BSc Civil Engineering, 2025 - 2026.

Living outside the comfort zone

Zihan Zhang is an international undergraduate student,he study in yunnan university for 3 years,and come to university of Strathclyde at the last year to get the dual degree. He says, "Dr Raj is a good teacher who teach me coding,writing and spoken english,Hope that every thing goes well for him."

OSCAR INTERNS

Aparna Kar, OUTR Bhubaneshwar

(SRFP-IAS Intern ) (June-2023 to Aug-2023)

Shankarsan Karna, NIT Rourkela

(June-2023 to Aug-2023)

Dipesh Anand Singh, NIT Silchar

(Dec-2022 to Jan-2023)

Amarendra Maurya, Shiv Nadar IOE

(Dec-2022 to Jan-2023)

It gives me immense pleasure in welcoming exceptionally bright and motivated candidates for a winter internship in the OSCAR Lab. Students from diverse academic backgrounds pursuing engineering from premier institutes will be provided with exposure to coding, experimentation, and practical case studies. Let's welcome the new team members here: