Sumeet Kumar Sinha

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Sumeet Kumar Sinha

Sumeet Kumar Sinha

Assistant Professor, Dept of Civil and Env Engg | IIT Delhi
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Biography

Sumeet Kumar Sinha is an Assistant Professor in the Civil Engineering Department of IIT Delhi specializing in geotechnical engineering. He obtained his BTech (Civil Engg) from IIT Delhi, PhD from University of California Davis, and postdoc from University of California, Berkeley. He has been honoured with numerous prestigious awards, including the ASCE Norman Medal 2025, recognizing his exceptional contributions to civil engineering. His research interests include understanding the complete response of geosystems (such as pile foundation, soil-anchor systems, geothermal energy, and geohazards) and making improvements in their design to make them more feasible, economical, resilient, and sustainable. A significant aspect of his work involves close collaboration with industry professionals, ensuring that academic research is effectively put into practice. He is actively involved in translating research outcomes into industry-ready products and solutions of practical problems through software, applications, patents, prototype development, outreach, and demonstrations. Along these lines, he has recently co-founded a startup, “BrahmaSens”, whose focus is on the development of distributed fiber optic sensing systems for measuring strain, temperature, and vibration for the health monitoring of civil infrastructures.

Research Topics

Pile Foundation Sensing Technologies Earthquake Engineering Energy Geotechnics Centrifuge Testing Liquefaction

Education

  • Ph.D. University of California Davis, USA, 2022
  • M.Sc. University of California Davis, USA, 2017
  • B.Tech. Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India, 2014

Appointments

  • Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India (2023 – present)
  • Postdoctoral Scholar, University of California, Berkeley, USA (2022 – 2023)
  • Research Assistant, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (2014 – 2015)

Awards and honors

  • Norman Medal, ASCE (2025)
  • Zuhair A. Munir Award for Best Dissertation in Engineering, UC Davis (2024)
  • Young Faculty Fellowship, IIT Delhi (2023)
  • DesignSafe Dataset Award, Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure (2022)
  • Michael L. Condon Civil Engineering Scholarship, Deep Foundation Institute (2021)
  • CPT Inc./Conetec Graduate Student Award, UC Davis (2021)
  • Fugro West Graduate Fellowship, UC Davis (2020)
  • GGSS Annual Round Table Best Poster Award, UC Davis (2019, 2021)
  • UC Davis Leadership Shadow Program Fellow, UC Davis (2019)
  • Jawahar Gajri Bai Scholarship, IIT Delhi (2014)
  • MHRD Merit-Cum-Means Scholarship, IIT Delhi (2010-2014)
  • Avanti Fellowship, IIT Delhi (2011-2013)
  • Semester Merit Award (top 7% institute-wise), IIT Delhi (2010-2014)
  • Undergraduate Teaching Assistantship Award, IIT Delhi (2013-2014)
  • Hindustan Pratibha Samman, Hindustan Newspaper (2010)