Education

Ph.D. Civil Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan 2020

M.Eng. Civil Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan 2017

B.Tech. - M.Tech. Integrated Dual Degree in Civil and Structural Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi, India 2015

Internships

3-month internship at Takenaka Corporation (Design Dept), Takenaka Corporation Tokyo Main Office, Japan, Aug - Oct 2018.

Summer Internship Program, Dept of Computer Science and Automation, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India, May - July 2013.

Awards

02-2020 SOFTech Travel Grant [conference postponed]

10-2017 MEXT Scholarship (文部科学省奨学金) for Doctoral degree (3 years)

10-2015 MEXT Scholarship (文部科学省奨学金) for Master’s degree (2 years)

04-2015 INSA-CSIR-DAE/BRNS-CICS Travel Fellowship

09-2014 National Award for Students of Civil/Structural Engineering by Institute for Steel Development and Growth (INSDAG)

04-2014 All India Council for Technical Education GATE Scholarship for Master’s degree

10-2013 Student Achievement Award by IIT(BHU), Varanasi Global Alumni Association

Theses

Thusoo S. (2020) Flexural and shear performance of steel-encased precast spun concrete piles. Ph.D. dissertation, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan.

Thusoo S. (2017) Study on flexural performance of precast and cast-in-situ steel-encased concrete piles. M.Eng. thesis, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan.

Thusoo S. (2015) Dynamic Analysis of High Rise RCC Frame Structures with Soil-Structure Interaction. M.Tech thesis, Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), India.

Peer-reviewed Journal Publications

Subedi N., THUSOO S., Obara T., Kono S., Kaneko O., Hayakawa T., Watanabe H., Mukai T., (2021) Flexural Performance of Cast-in-place Concrete-filled Steel Tube Piles under Varying Axial Load, Thin-Walled Structures, Submitted (SCI, 4.442)

* THUSOO S., Obara T., Kono S., Miyahara K. (2021); Design models for steel-encased high-strength precast concrete piles under axial-flexural loads. Engineering Structures. Feb 2021, Volume 228, 111465. (SCI 4.471)

* THUSOO S., Kono S., Hamada J. and Asai Y. (2020); Performance of precast hollow steel-encased high-strength concrete piles. Engineering Structures, Vol: 204, 109995. (SCI 4.471)

Non Peer-reviewed Journal Publications

THUSOO S., Modi K., Jha A.K., Kumar R., (2016); Dynamic Soil Structure Interaction in Buildings. International Journal of Civil, Environmental, Structural, Construction and Architectural Engineering, Vol. 10, Issue 05, 2016, pp. 602-607.

THUSOO S., Modi K., Kumar R., Madahar H. (2015); Response of Buildings with Soil-Structure Interaction with Varying Soil Types. International Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Vol: 9, No: 4, 414-418.

Modi K., * THUSOO S., Kumar R., Madahar H. (2014); Structural Response of Buildings Due To Dynamic Soil-Structure Interaction, i-Manager's Journal on Structural Engineering, Vol: 3, No: 4, 20-24.

Bhatnagar S., and Thusoo S. (2014); Optimal dynamic allocation of servers to tasks using Simultaneous Perturbation Stochastic Algorithm. i-manager’s Journal on Structural Engineering, Vol:2, No:4, 10-16.

* THUSOO S., Maithi P.R. and Rai A. (2013); Foam concrete - A better replacement to the traditional heavy concrete. i-manager’s Journal on Civil Engineering, Vol:4, No:1, 1-5.

Full Papers Presented in Conferences

THUSOO S., Kono S., Hamada J., Asai Y., Mukai D., (2020); Experimental investigation of hollow precast steel-encased concrete piles. 17^th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering (17WCEE), 13-18 Sept, Sendai, Japan, paper no. C000666.

THUSOO S., Tanaka H., Otaki T., Kono S., Watanabe H., Hayakawa T., Hirade T., Mukai D., Mukai T. (2018); Analysis of bending behavior of hollow and precast steel encased concrete piles using fiber based models. 11^th US National Conference on Earthquake Engineering (11NCEE), 25-29 June, Los Angeles, California, ID 394.

THUSOO S., Tanaka H., Otaki T., Kono S., Watanabe H., Hayakawa T., Hirade T., Mukai D., and Mukai T. (2017); Numerical study on seismic structural performance of steel encased concrete piles. 19^th Taiwan-Japan-Korea Joint Seminar on Earthquake Engineering for Building Structures (19SEEBUS), 08-09 Sept., Korea, 167p.

THUSOO S., Modi K., Jha A.K., Kumar R., (2016); Dynamic Soil Structure Interaction in Buildings. XVIII International Conference on Earthquake and Geological Engineering (ICEGE), 26-27 May, Tokyo, Japan.

THUSOO S., Modi K., Kumar R., Madahar H. (2015); Response of Buildings with Soil-Structure Interaction with Varying Soil Types. XIII International Conference on Structural Engineering, Construction and Management (ICSECM), 8-9 April, Dubai, UAE.

Reports

Obara T., Thusoo S., Kono S., (2020); Chapter 7 SC piles: Moment capacity of steel encased concrete piles. in Report for the precast concrete pile committee of AIJ (Draft).

Abstracts Presented in Conferences

THUSOO S., Kono S., Obara T., Mukai D. (2020); Verification of strength of steel-encased high-strength concrete piles under combined axial and flexure forces using different design codes. Architectural Institute of Japan Annual Convention, 8-10 Sept., Chiba, Japan.

Kasumi F., Kono S., Obara T., Miyahara K., THUSOO S., Mukai D. (2020); Axial compression test on SC piles. Architectural Institute of Japan Annual Convention, 8-10 Sept., Chiba, Japan.

Obara T., Subedi N., Sayaka A., THUSOO S., Kono S., Hirao K., Imai Y., Mukai D. (2020); Experimental study on ultimate shear capacity of steel encased concrete piles (Part 1: Research background and outline of experiment). Architectural Institute of Japan Annual Convention, 8-10 Sept., Chiba, Japan.

THUSOO S., Kono S. (2020); Development of numerical models for the steel-encased high-strength concrete piles. SOFTech Workshop for Young Researchers, 13 Feb., Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan.

THUSOO S., Kono S., Obara T., Asai Y., Hamada J., Kobayashi K. (2019); Performance evaluation of earthquake-resistant steel-encased concrete piles based on prestressed concrete member design criteria. Architectural Institute of Japan Annual Convention, 3-6 Sept., Ishikawa, Japan, p. 213-214.

Egawa M., THUSOO S., Obara T., Kono S., Hirao K., Kobayashi K., Mukai D. (2019); Study on shear capacity of steel encased precast concrete piles (Part 1: Results of specimen SC1). Architectural Institute of Japan Annual Convention, 3-6 Sept., Ishikawa, Japan, p. 227-228.

THUSOO S., Sinha A., and Kumar R., (2019); Soil-Structure Interaction under Earthquake Excitation. International Conference on Modern Trend in Civil Engineering-Towards Sustainable Development Goals (ICMTCE), 2-3 March, Shri Ramswaroop Memorial University, Lucknow, U.P., India

Oktiovan Y.P., THUSOO S., Kono S., Mukai D. (2018); Analysis of bending behavior of precast concrete piles using fiber based model (Part 1: Description of fiber model), Architectural Institute of Japan Annual Convention, 4-6 Sept., Sendai, Japan, p. 609-610.

THUSOO S., Oktiovan Y.P., Kono S., Mukai D. (2018); Analysis of bending behavior of precast concrete piles using fiber based model (Part 2: Results and Discussion), Architectural Institute of Japan Annual Convention, 4-6 Sept., Sendai, Japan, p. 611-612.

Hayakawa T., Tomoshisa M., Watanabe H., Tosauchi Y., Tanaka M., Mizukami D., Fukuda T., THUSOO S., Kishida S. (2018); Study on structural performance evaluation for concrete pile system with post-earthquake functional use (Part 19: Section analysis on cast-in-place steel encased concrete piles subjected to varying axial load), Architectural Institute of Japan Annual Convention, 4-6 Sept., Sendai, Japan, p. 583-584.

THUSOO S., Tanaka H., Watanabe H., Kono S., Hirade T., Mukai D., Mukai T., Mizukami D. (2017); Study on structural performance evaluation for concrete pile system with post-earthquake functional use (Part 7: numerical analysis of SC piles), Architectural Institute of Japan Annual Convention, 31-3 Sept., Hiroshima, Japan, p. 587-588.

Workshops Attended

EERI 2nd Learning from Earthquakes Travel Study Program, New Zealand, May 5-12, 2019.

Workshop on Bending Active Structure with Kangaroo2/K2, Takenaka Tokyo Main Office, Tokyo, Japan, Dec 18, 2018.

Natural Hazards Reconnaissance Facility Workshop: An overview of the NHERI RAPID Facility, Los Angeles, CA, USA, June 25, 2018.

2nd New Zealand-Japan workshop on Evaluation of Seismic Performance of Reinforced Concrete Wall Buildings, Nikko, Japan, Nov 20-22, 2017.

4th Joint Workshop on Building / Civil Engineering between Tongji & Tokyo Tech, Tongji University, Shanghai, China, June 22-24, 2017.

2017 Taiwan-Japan Joint Symposium on the Advancement of Urban Earthquake Hazard Mitigation Technology, National Central University, Taoyuan, Taiwan, September 4-5, 2017.

Misc

Thusoo S. (2018); Numerical study on steel-encased concrete section of earthquake resistant piles. Oral presentation at 9th ISAJ Symposium on Interdisciplinary science and technology for safety and quality of life, 7th Dec. 2018, Tsukuba, Japan.

Thusoo S., Tanaka H., Otaki T., and Kono S., Watanabe H., Hayakawa T., Hirade T., Mukai D., Mukai T. (2017); Numerical study on seismic structural performance of steel-encased concrete piles. Poster presentation at 8th ISAJ Symposium on bridging nature and technology, 6th Dec. 2017, Tokyo, Japan.

Thusoo, S., Wijeyewickrema, A. C. (2016). “Effects of interface material on decay of dynamic response of free and controlled rocking systems”, Poster presentation at 7th ISAJ Symposium on Science and Technology for Sustainability, 15th Dec. 2016, Tokyo, Japan.

Co-organized Workshops and Conferences

Tokyo Institute of Technology - Indian Institute of Technology Collaboration Meeting, Tokyo, Japan, 4 Dec. 2017.

Executive body, Pan IIT India-Japan Convention 2017 “Progressing On Sustainable Partnership”, Japan, 1 Dec. 2017.

Co-organizer, Indian Scientists Association in Japan (ISAJ) Symposium, University of Tokyo, Japan, 2017

Positions of responsibility

Core member 2017-2018, International Student Council (India representative), Tokyo Tech International Student Association (TISA)

Founder and President 2016-2018, Indian Student Association at Tokyo Institute of Technology

Panel Member 2012-2013, Cultural Wing, IIT-BHU

Joint Secretary 2011-2012, Indian Music Club, IIT-BHU