Dr. Nikhil Bugalia

Nikhil Bugalia is currently an Assistant Professor at the Building Technology, Construction Materials, and Management (BTCM) Group, Department of Civil Engineering at IIT Madras. His research focuses on finding solutions to challenges related to Occupational Health and Safety and Sustainability in the Construction Industry. His research group works at the intersection of applying technical tools such as Text-Mining, Computer Vision (CV), and Virtual Reality (VR), and System-thinking-based qualitative and quantitative methodologies, such as system-dynamics modeling and case studies, to identify risks and develop and implement solutions for the construction sector. He is also serving as the advisor to Global Safety Evidence Center to Llyod’s Research Foundation and is also a member of the CIB working groups on Safety, Health, and Wellbeing in Construction (W099) and People in Construction (W123). He has extensive experience working on Skill Development, Capacity Building, and Training projects at the organizational and policy levels in association with the Asian Development Bank Institute, Tokyo, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and East Japan Railway Company. He also holds the secretary position to the special interest group on High-Speed Rail: Policy, Investments, and Impacts for the World Conference on Transport Research Society. He holds a PhD in Civil Engineering from the University of Tokyo and graduated in Civil Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, in 2013.