Dr. Tarun Naskar
BSB - 111A, Department of Civil Engineering,
Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, Tamilnadu 600036, India
Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, Tamilnadu 600036, India
Email ID :tarunnaskar@iitm.ac.in
+91 44 2257 4322
Alternative Email ID :tarunnaskar@civil.iitm.ac.in
Dr. Tarun Naskar is an assistant professor in the Geotechnical Engineering Division of the Department of Civil Engineering at IIT Madras and the Principal Investigator for Wave Propagation lab IITM. He earned his B.E in Civil Engineering from Bengal Engineering & Science University (now Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology), Shibpur in 2008. He obtained his M.E (Topper – Geotech division) and Ph.D. (Geotechnical) in Civil Engineering from the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India in 2018.
Dr. Tarun’s research interests are wave propagation in an elastic medium, SASW/MASW, bender element test, ground response analysis, geotechnical earthquake engineering, and artificial intelligence. His research is majorly focused on developing an efficient inversion tool for practicing engineers to obtain a fast and reliable shear wave velocity profile by incorporating deep learning in the area of geophysical data analysis. He co-authored several articles in peer-reviewed journals such as Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, Canadian Geotechnical Journal, Journal of Geophysics & Engineering, and Geophysics.
He teaches undergraduate and postgraduate level courses such as advanced soil mechanics and computer methods in civil engineering at IITM. He is involved in various projects across India, focusing on the determination of accurate shear wave velocity profile of irregularly dispersive subsurface using MASW.
Apart from academics, Dr. Tarun actively participates in trekking, writing poems and reading books. He trekked to the mighty Himalayas, and his most recent one was Kalindi Pass (~6000m)
Earned Degrees
Ph.D. in Civil Engineering (Geotechnical), 2018
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, CV Raman Rd, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560012, India
M.E. in Civil Engineering (Geotechnical), 2010
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, CV Raman Rd, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560012, India
B.E. in Civil Engineering, 2008
Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, P.O. - Botanic Garden, Howrah, West Bengal 711103, India
Research Areas
| Wave Propagation in Elastic Media |
| SASW/MASW |
| Bender Element Test |
| Site Response Analysis |
| Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering |
| Artificial Intelligence |
Professional Experiences
| 2018 – present | : | Assistant Professor, Dept. Civil Engineering, IIT Madras, Chennai, India |
| 2017 – 2018 | : | Research Associate, Dept. Civil Engineering, IISc, Bangalore , Bengaluru, India |
| 2012 – 2017 | : | Teaching Assistant, Dept. Civil Engineering, IISc, Bangalore , Bengaluru, India |
| Jan, 2012 – Jul,2012 | : | Assistant Professor, Dept. Civil Engineering, BITM, Santiniketan, |
| 2010 – 2011 | : | Senior Lecturer, Dept. Civil Engineering, ICFAI University, Tripura, India |