{"id":230,"date":"2020-12-08T18:47:59","date_gmt":"2020-12-08T18:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/kanvinde\/?page_id=230"},"modified":"2025-08-15T09:07:02","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T16:07:02","slug":"biography","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/kanvinde\/biography\/","title":{"rendered":"Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><\/h2>\n<h3>Education<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Ph.D. (2004), MS (2000), Stanford University<\/li>\n<li>B.Tech (1999) Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Academic Appointments<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Jul 2023 &#8211; present: Associate Dean for Academic Personnel and Planning, College of Engineering, University of California, Davis, CA<\/li>\n<li>Jul 2015 \u2013 present: Professor, University of California, Davis, CA<\/li>\n<li>Jul 2015 \u2013 Jun 2020: Professor and Chair, Dept of Civil and Env Engineering, University of California, Davis, CA<\/li>\n<li>Jul 2009 \u2013 Jun 2015: Associate Professor, University of California, Davis, CA<\/li>\n<li>Jul 2012 \u2013 Jun 2015: Vice Chair, Dept of Civil and Env Engineering, University of California, Davis, CA<\/li>\n<li>Jan 2004 \u2013 June 2009: Assistant Professor, University of California, Davis, CA<\/li>\n<li>Sept 1999 \u2013 Dec 2003: Graduate Research Assistant, Stanford University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Honors and Awards<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/vajra-india.in\/\">VAJRA<\/a> Faculty Fellowship Recipient, Government of India, 2024 (hosted as Adjunct Professor at Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.asce.org\/career-growth\/awards-and-honors\/raymond-c-reese-research-prize\">Raymond Reese Research Prize<\/a>, American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ascelibrary.org\/jsendh\/best_paper_awards\">Best Paper Award in Analysis and Computation<\/a>, Journal of Structural Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers, 2023<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aisc.org\/pressreleases\/press-releases\/connections-researcher-amit-kanvinde-wins-2022-higgins-lectureship-award\/\">T.R. Higgins Lectureship Award<\/a>, American Institute of Steel Construction, 2022<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.asce.org\/career-growth\/awards-and-honors\/asce-state-of-the-art-of-civil-engineering-award\">State of the Art of Civil Engineering Award<\/a>, American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aisc.org\/pressreleases\/press-releases\/aisc-to-award-12-top-professionals-at-nascc-the-steel-conference\/\">Special Achievement Award<\/a>, American Institute of Steel Construction, 2017<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.naefrontiers.org\/Media\/PressReleases16984\/184748.aspx\">US Frontiers of Engineering Symposium<\/a>, National Academy of Engineering, 2017<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Walter_L._Huber_Civil_Engineering_Research_Prize\">Walter Huber Research Prize<\/a>, American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Norman_Medal\">Norman Medal<\/a>, American Society of Civil Engineers, 2008<\/li>\n<li>Best Graduate Student Paper Award, Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, 2003<\/li>\n<li>John A Blume Fellowship at Stanford University, 1999-2000<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Full CV available on request<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Education Ph.D. (2004), MS (2000), Stanford University B.Tech (1999) Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay Academic Appointments Jul 2023 &#8211; present: Associate Dean for Academic Personnel and Planning, College of Engineering, University of California, Davis, CA Jul 2015 \u2013 present: Professor, University of California, Davis, CA Jul 2015 \u2013 Jun 2020: Professor and Chair, Dept of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-230","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/kanvinde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/kanvinde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/kanvinde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/kanvinde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/kanvinde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/kanvinde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":856,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/kanvinde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/230\/revisions\/856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/kanvinde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}