Ajaya K. Gupta
Ajaya Kumar Gupta is Center’s Founding Director and a Professor Emeritus of Structural Engineering and Mechanics, and a former faculty at NC State University (NCSU) since 1980. Earlier, he was on the faculty at Illinois Institute of Technology, 1976-80, and manager of a specialists’ group at Sargent & Lundy, 1971-76.
Professor Gupta authored ‘Response Spectrum Method’ (Blackwell/CRC 1990), and authored or coauthored numerous scholarly papers and reports. The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) honored him in 1996 with the Bechtel Energy Award for leadership in developing safe and economical nuclear energy through teaching and research, and in 1982, with a Huber Research Prize for young engineers in recognition of his contribution to the profession through research and professional activities. Ajaya Gupta was one of two nominees for Commissioner of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission in 1999 submitted to President Clinton by the White House Office of Personnel.
Ajaya Gupta is Chairman of the Nuclear Plants Current Issues Symposiums (NPCIS), the latest of which, NPCIS 10, was held in Charlotte in December 2016. He instituted the Current Issues series at NCSU in 1986 that later led to establishment of the Center. Dr. Gupta is a member of the Advisory Board of the International Association for Structural Mechanics in Reactor Technology (IASMiRT) since 2005. He was President of the Association and held other offices on its Board of Directors, 1997-2005. He was Chairman of SMiRT 16 held in Washington DC, 2001, an editor of ‘Nuclear Engineering and Design’, 2001-04, and Chairman of the ASCE Energy Division Executive Committee, on which, he served in various capacities, 1988-95.