Prof. Sudhir K Jain
Director, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (IITGN), Ahmedabad and Professor, IIT Kanpur
Prof. Sudhir K Jain is currently serving his third term as director of the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, which he joined as founder director in June 2009. He was on the faculty of IIT Kanpur for 35 years from 1984-2019. Dr Jain is an internationally reputed scholar of earthquake engineering and a passionate academic administrator. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering from the University of Roorkee, and Masters and Doctoral degrees from the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena. He served as President of the International Association for Earthquake Engineering from 2014-18. He was elected Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering in 2003, and International Member of the US National Academy of Engineering in 2021. He was conferred the Padma Shri by the Government of India in 2020.