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Bimal Kumar

Short Bio:

Bimal Kumar is a Professor of Information Technology in Design and Construction. He is a Member of the British Computer Society, the American Society of Civil Engineers and the Institution of Engineers of India. He is well known for his work on the application of artificial intelligence/knowledge-based systems to structural design - this has resulted in two books and numerous publications. He is also the founding Secretary/Treasurer of the European Group for Structural Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (EG-SEA-AI), now called European Group of Intelligent Computing in Engineering (EG-ICE). He sits on the Editorial Boards of two international journals – ‘Advanced Engineering Informatics’ and ‘Advances in Engineering Software’. Prof. Kumar has chaired numerous international conferences on IT and AI in Structural and Construction Engineering. He has regularly been invited to run courses and seminars on IT and AI in Engineering and Construction in various countries around the world including Portugal, GreeceMalta, Indonesia, Switzerland and India.  Prof. Kumar has been a Visiting faculty at Stanford University in the USA and Malta University.

Link to personal or departmental homepage:

http://www.caledonian.ac.uk/bne/index.html

Contact information :

B Kumar, BEng(Hons.), MSc, PhD, MBCS, CITP, MASCE
Professor of IT in Design and Construction
School of Built and Natural Environment
Glasgow Caledonian University
City Campus
Cowcaddens Road
Glasgow G4  0BA
Tel:0141 331 8522
Fax:0141 331 3696

Areas of specialization:

Main research interests are the development of systems and advanced IT tools to facilitate the integration of the design and construction processes, intelligent buildings, modelling building regulation and codes representation and processing and knowledge management and engineering.