Prof. M. C. Deo
Director, VJTI, Mumbai

Prof. M C Deo joined VJTI as its Director on June 12, 2011 retaining lien at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay where he served in the faculty of Civil Engineering since 1983. He obtained his Ph D in 1983 and thereafter joined the faculty at IIT Bombay engaging himself in teaching, research, consultancy and administration. During 1986 and 1989 he had two brief stints as post-doc at University of Liverpool U K.

 His main interest is ocean engineering in general and applications of statistical, stochastic, artificial intelligence and other computing techniques to analyze met-ocean data in particular.  He has guided 11 Ph D and 50 Masters Students so far and has published around than 130 papers in Journals and conference proceedings.  Currently four Ph D and two M Tech students work with him at IIT Bombay.  He has obtained considerable external funding from ONGC, ISRO, NRB, NIOT, DST, DOD to carry out his research activities.

 Prof. Deo contributed to the growth of hydraulic engineering of India at the national level by acting as President of Indian Society for Hydraulics for four years. He helped in knowledge dissemination in ocean and hydrological engineering by organizing over 17 conferences, workshops, short term courses and seminars.  He set up a new lab at IIT Bombay called Artificial Intelligence Lab by inviting funds from DST.

 He has given the benefit of his knowledge to organizations such as Konkan Railways, ONGC, National Water Academy, and Indian National Committee for Hydraulics, by serving in capacities such as non-official Director / advisory board member. He also has been on advisory boards, review committees, and selection committees of a large number of other national level organizations.  Prof. Deo has offered professional help on commercial basis to companies like ONGC, NPCL, NTPC, MMRDA, TCE, and HCC. 

Prof. Deo has led research efforts nationally and internationally by acting as (a) Editor of ‘International Journal of Ocean and Climate Systems’, Multi-Science Publishing Co., U. K., (b) Associate Editor of ASCE Journal of Computing in Civil Engg., (c) Chair, Editorial Board of ISH Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, (d) Member, Editorial Boards of International Journal of Ships and Offshore Structures, Open Ocean Engineering Journal, Journal of Advances in Civil Engineering, past Civil-Comp conferences, U. K

Prof. Deo has received Prof. H H Mathur award, outstanding Associate Editor Award of ASCE, IRCC research award of IIT Bombay and ISH Jalavigyan Puraskar for his distinguished works.

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