Pant, R. S.

About

Prof. Rajkumar S. Pant has been a member of faculty of Aerospace Engineering Department at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay since December 1989. He has also worked for five years in Hindustan Aeronautics Limited in the Design & Engineering Department at Kanpur (3.5 years) and Nasik (1.5 years) Divisions. Prof. Pant is an alumnus of College of Aeronautics, Cranfield University, UK, where he earned his Ph.D. under Commonwealth Scholarship Scheme, and IIT Madras, where he did his Masters in Aeronautical Engineering.

He has published and presented > 270 scientific papers, of which > 200 are in international journals and conferences. He was a visiting faculty for a year each at Nanyang Technological University in 2016, and Virginia Tech in 2010-11. He has also carried out several short-term assignments at several top-ranking institutes and universities all over the world such as Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica, Brazil in 2012, Texas A&M University in 2011, Cambridge University in 2008, and Imperial College London in 2006. In 2102, he was appointed as a Special Visiting Researcher under the Science Without Borders program of the Brazilian Government for a three-year project.

Prof. Pant is a Fellow of the Aeronautical Society of India, and a member of Indian Society of Technical Education, American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics, USA, The Airship Association, UK, and The Naval Airship Association, USA.

Prof. Pant was honored with Lifetime Achievement Award for outstanding advancement of the Art & Science of Buoyant Flight by the Lighter-than-Air Technical Committee of American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics on 14 June 2023. He also won the Uttarakhand Science Pioneer Award at the 17th State Science Congress of Uttarakhand held in February 2023. He has won three awards for excellence in teaching at IIT Bombay, viz., Departmental Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2022, Hotchand and Jamunabai Lala Teaching Award in 2021, and D P Joshi Excellent Teacher Award in 2014. He received Special Recognition in Academic Excellence (Faculty-National category) award by Institution of Engineers (India) in January 2021. In 2019, he was felicitated by Institution of Engineers (India) as an Eminent Engineering personality in Aerospace Engineering.

Employment

• Indian Institute of Technology Bombay Professor
  2012 - Present
• Indian Institute of Technology Associate Professor
  2001 - 2012
• Indian Institute of Technology Assistant Professor
  1990 - 2001
• Indian Institute of Technology Lecturer
  1989 - 1990
• Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd Deputy Manager
  1988 - 1989
• Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd Aeronautical Engineer
  1984 - 1988
• Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd Design Trainee
  1983 - 1984

Education

• Cranfield University Ph.D. (Design Structures & Systems)
  1994 - 1997
• Indian Institute of Technology Madras M. Tech.
  1983 - 1986
• Panjab Engineering College B.Sc. (Engineering)
  1979 - 1983

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