CONFERENCE HONOREES
Dr. S. K. Ghosh
Dr. S. K. Ghosh heads the consulting practice, S. K. Ghosh Associates LLC, Palatine, Illinois, now a subsidiary of the International Code Council. Dr. Ghosh is active on many national technical committees, is an Honorary Member of ACI, and is a Fellow of ASCE, SEI, and PCI. He is a member of ACI Committee 318, Standard Building Code, and the ASCE 7 Standard Committee (Minimum Design Loads for Buildings and Other Structures). He is a former member of the Boards of Direction of ACI, the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, and the Building Seismic Safety Council. He is a member of the Board of Governors of ASCE’s Structural Engineering Institute.
Dr. Ghosh has influenced seismic design provisions in the United States for many years. In addition to authoring many publications in the area of structural design, Dr. Ghosh has investigated and reported on structural performance in the most recent earthquakes. He is currently leading a World Bank project on building code enforcement in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Prof. Abhijit Mukherjee
Prof. Abhijit Mukherjee is a Civil Engineer, researcher and educator. Prof. Mukherjee is a Dean at Curtin University, Australia. He has taught structural mechanics, structural design, structural stability, and finite element analysis courses. His industrial consultations are on structural assessment, structural rehabilitation, and new structural materials.
He loves to work on the rehabilitation of heritage structures. His research is on sustainable engineering practices. He approaches sustainable practices from three directions - the development of new sustainable materials, monitoring the health of existing infrastructure and extending the life of infrastructure through rehabilitation and retrofitting.