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Professor Biswajit Basu

Professor (Civil Struct & Env. Eng.)
CIVIL ENGINEERING BUILDING (NEW)

 basub@tcd.ie

 3531896 2389


Research Tags

  Nonlinear Dynamics and Systems   Random Vibrations and Stochastic Mechanics   Soil/Structure Interaction   Stochastic Processes   Structural Dynamics   System Identification   Systems Health Monitoring   Time Frequency and Wavelet Analysis   Traffic Engineering   Vibration Control   Wind Energy and Wind Turbines

Research Projects

 Industrial DoCtorate on Offshore WiNd and Wave ENergy (ICONN)
 Business Model Innovation for High Performance Buildings Supported by Whole Life Optimization (UMBRELLA)
 Indicator-based Interactive Decision Support and Information Exchange Platform for Smartcities
 Simulation Enhanced Integrated Systems for Model-based Intelligent Control(s)
 SYStem Identification, Condition & Health Monitoring for a New Generation of WIND Turbines (SYSWIND)

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Representations

Details Date
External examiner for PhD thesis: in Imperial College London (2 theses) DTU Copenhagen (2 theses) University of Parma, Italy Wollongong University, Australia Maynooth University DIT IIT Mumbai IIT Delhi IIT Kharagpur IIT Guwahati (2 theses) IIT Patna Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology (2 theses) National Institute of Technology Allahabad India Universiti Putra Malaysia 2004 -
Thapar University Academic Programme Review Committee and Teaching Consultancy on behalf of TCD 2015-2017
101 George St: Advice on vibration control of world"s tallest modular building 2019
Grant proposal reviewer for Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique FNRS, Belgium 2021 -
PI, Trinity Quantum Alliance 2022 - till date
Chair, Irish Systems and Control Committee 2014 - till date
European Association for Control of Structures 2009 - till date
European Association for Control of Structures 2009 - till date
Grant proposal reviewer for Center for Excellence, Ontario, Canada 2012
Grant proposal reviewer for NSERC Canada 2007
Grant proposal reviewer Swiss National Science Foundation 2012, 2020, 2022
Grant proposal reviewer for EPSRC UK 2006 -
Faculty Appointment Committee (Assistant Professor), College of Engineering and Architecture 2023
External member of the Senior Promotions Committee UCD 2007
External assessor for the appointment of Professor at University of Texas, Dallas USA 2022
External Member in the Panel for appointment of 'Full Professor of Computational Methods in Civil Engineering' Aarhus University 2017
Member-Bologna working group-National Academy of Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning(NAIRTL)(2 2007-2008
External member, Post-doc hiring committee UCD 2023
Grant proposal reviewer for Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique FNRS Belgium 2021 -
Editor-in-Chief, Wind Energy and Engineering Resaerch 2023
Editor, IEEE Trans Sustainable Energy 2014
Associate Editor, Smartcities 2015
Associate Editor, Energy Reports 2015
Associate Editor, Journal of Structural Enginering, ASCE 2012
Member of Editorial Board, Structural Control and Health Monitoring, Wiley 2009
Member of Editorial Board, Journal Of Multi-Body Dynamics, Institution Of Mechanical Engineers, UK 2008
Member, Faculty Board, Engineering & Architecture, University of Parma, Italy 2019-2022
Member of Editorial Board, International Journal Of Materials and Structural Integrity 2006

Memberships

Membership of Professional Institutions, Associations, Societies

Details Date From Date To
Member IEI 2002 till date
Member ASCE 2006 till date
Member ASME 2006 2010
Member IEEE 2007 till date
European Association for Control of Structures 2009 till date
Chair, Irish Systems and Control Committee 2014 till date
T. Konar, A. D. Ghosh and B. Basu, Tuned Liquid Column Dampers for Structural Vibration Control, 2024, Book, IN_PRESS
Igoe, A., Biswas, A. and Basu, B., A study on polarity distribution for network learning, 2nd Tiny paper track , International Conference on Learning Reinforcement, Vienna, 2024, pp209, 1-6. , Conference Paper, PUBLISHED
Mitchell, E., Basu, B. and Mitra, P., Performance analysis of a quantum-classical hybrid reinforcement learning approach, 2nd Tiny paper track, International Conference on Learning Reinforcement, Vienna, 2024, pp202, 1-6. , Conference Paper, PUBLISHED
Kalra, S.A., Mitra, P., Biswas, A. and Basu, B., Graph expansion in pruned recurrent neural network layers preserves performance, 2nd Tiny paper track, International Conference on Learning Reinfrcement, Vienna, 2024, pp189, 1-6. , Conference Paper, PUBLISHED
Biswas, A., Kalra, S.A., Mitra, P. and Basu, B., ) Sparse network initialization using deterministic Ramanujan graphs, Theoretical Foundations of Foundation Models,, International Conference on Machine Learning, Vienna, 2024, pp8, 1-8. , Conference Paper, PUBLISHED
Sudipta Lal Basu, Breiffni Fitzgerald, Biswajit Basu, Estimating the performance of wind turbines misaligned with respect to the wind direction using a simplified CFD based approach, The Science of Making Torque from Wind (TORQUE 2024), Florence, 2024, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI  URL
Konar, T., Ghosh, A. and Basu, B., Real-world installations of tuned liquid column dampers for wind-induced vibration control of buildings some important case studies, J. Structure and Infrastructure Engineering, 2024, Journal Article, ACCEPTED
Zhang, S., Gurusamy, S., James-Chakraborty, K. and Basu, B., Short-term office temperature forecasting through a data-driven approach integrated with bidirectional gated recurrent neural network, Energy and Buildings, 314, 2024, p114231-1, 114231-22 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Stephen, C., Basu, B. and McNabola, A., Detection of Cavitation in a Centrifugal Pump-as-Turbine Using Time-Domain-Based Analysis of Vibration Sign, Energies, 17, (11), 2024, p2598-1-18 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Paul, S., Ghosh, A. and Basu, B., A computationally efficient approach to estimate design wave force on seawalls under large amplitude irrotational waves, Ocean Engineering, 311, (1), 2024, p118745, 1-11 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED
  

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Basu, B., On the nonlinear three-dimensional models in equatorial ocean flows, Communications on Pure and Applied Analysis, 21, (7), 2022, p2271 - 2290, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Chen, L., Basu, B. and Martin, C.I., On rotational flows with discontinuous vorticity beneath steady water waves near stagnation, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 912, 2021, pA44, 1-23 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED
D. Geraghty and B. Basu, 'A method and apparatus for real time weigh in motion of heavy goods and other vehicles', IPO Ireland, PCT/IE2007/000032, 2007, 1 September 2024, Patent, SUBMITTED
V. Pakrashi, A. J. O'Connor, B. Basu, Reliability analysis of bridges retrofitted with tuned mass dampers, Proceedings of the BEI04 Second Symposium on Bridge Engineering in Ireland, Belfast, 2004, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED
N. A. Ní Nualláin, A. J. O'Connor, B. Basu, Reliability assessment of seismic retrofit options in highway bridge structures, Proceedings of the BEI04 Second Symposium on Bridge Engineering in Ireland, Belfast, 2004, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED

  

Awards and Honours

Award Date
1st Place in B Eng (Gold Medalist) 1992
Ist Place in Graduating Class in Master's 1994
Best conference paper award in the 6th International Conference on Condition monitoring, British Institute of Non-Destructive Testing, Dublin, Ireland June 2009
Best conference paper on Soil Dynamics in the 13th Asian Regional Conference on Geotechnical Engineering, International Society of Soil mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE), Calcutta, India Jan 2007
Best paper award in the Procedings of the Society of Earthquake and Civil Engineering Dynamics, SECED, Bath, UK 2005
Best conference paper in the 7th Railway Engineering Conference, London, UK 2004
Dr K.S.Krishnan Research Fellow Award 1994
Guest Professor, Aalborg University, Denmark July - Aug 2011
Visiting Scholar, Rice University 2004 & 2005
Phil Doak Award, J Sound & Vibration 2015
Ireland's Champion of EU Research Award from The President Michael D. Higgins 2012
Senior Marie Curie Fellow, Plaxis BV, The Netherlands 2012-2013
Kobori Award for Structural Control from the International Association of Structural Control and Monitoring 2014
High End Foreign Expert Award, China (Visiting Professor, Tongji University) 2015-2017
Global Initiative for Academic Network (GIAN) Award from Govt. of India (visited NIT Silchar) 2019

Research Interests

Description Of Research Interests

Pivoting on my expertise in stochastic structural dynamics and control, I have pioneered the area of structural control of wind energy systems. The transformational impact I had on the field is evidenced from the citations received for the high quality publications in the top journals, several invited talks/keynote addresses delivered in reputed venues, authored book on structural control (in press-Taylor and Francis), funding received from national agencies and EU (FP7, H2020, Horizon Europe) and appointment as the Editor-in-Chief of the Elsevier journal Wind Energy and Engineering Research. With the intention of solving open problems related to the science and engineering in the ocean and offshore domain, I undertook my second doctoral studies in Mathematical Physics allowing me address fundamental problems in nonlinear waves and hydrodynamics related to deep offshore floating wind turbines (yet to be fully realised in practise due to several scientific and technical hurdles) and solved challenging partial differential equations (PDEs) by advanced analytical and computational techniques. This recent endeavour of mine has led to three transformational developments in the ocean dynamics and offshore engineering: (1) Following my research on nonlinear water waves, I have achieved a major breakthrough establishing the importance of a new quantity `flowforce. The hydrodynamic analysis I have developed is changing the approach of nonlinear analysis in ocean engineering and of offshore structures. Also, based on multi-disciplinary approaches, I have been able to recreate geophysical fluid dynamics scenarios from historical records which is giving rise to a new field of `geohistorical fluid dynamics'. (2) I am also leading the new field of developing quantum computing algorithms for solving classical problems having a transformational influence on problems that are solved in ocean engineering and oceanography. Hinging on my expertise on dynamics and control, I have developed new algorithms for solving nonlinear PDEs and applied it for solving problems in ocean dynamics such as tephra flow due to submarine volcanoes. I have a H2020 grant (Q-GOS) on implementing my developed quantum algorithms on quantum hardware. (3) I am formulating novel graph theoretic models for ocean dynamics (using interoperable data coupled with socio-ecology) funded by one of my recently EU projects (ECOTWIN) which are revolutionizing the fundamental concept underpinning the digital twin for the ocean. I am leading the development of the European digital twin ocean and collaborating with 4 other EU projects (as requested by the EU Commission) on models and data, which will, for example, have a significant impact on the policy of deployment of offshore wind farm (reconciling with marine protected zones and fisheries). I have championed the development in the field of ocean modelling and ocean renewable (wind) energy by merging classical and emerging techniques (such as structural vibration control strategies, nonlinear hydrodynamics, graph theoretic approaches, quantum computing) to solve challenging and open problems using advanced analytical and computational methods. I am currently considered to be one of the top researchers in the field of offshore wind energy.