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Dr Bhasker Vijaykumar Bhatt, born in the year 1979, is serving as Chief Operations Officer at Facile Maven Pvt. Ltd after serving academics for 11 years as an Associate Professor at SMAID, CVM University, Vallabh Vidyanagar, Anand and APIED, Vallabh Vidyanagar and as assistant Professor SCET, Surat. He is a third-generation civil engineer in his family. He has received a Diploma in Civil Engineering from TEB, Gujarat from VBT Polytechnic, Umrakh. Later, he did a B. E. (Civil Engineering) & Master of Town & Regional Planning from SVNIT-Surat, with meritorious medals and honour. He also obtained MBA (Project Management) from Sikkim Manipal University (Distance mode in 2013). He had a special experience in teaching at PG Urban Planning level and extensive research expedition through dissertations.
He acquired urban planning experience on various assignments across the Gujarat state from 2007 to 2011. He has worked with and for UNDP-India for a national project on Disaster Management for the area of Vadodara City; The World Bank and organizations of the Central Government of India. He has been actively associated through extension to his volunteering with professional organizations such as The Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE), The Institute of Urban Transport India (IUT), The Institute of Civil Engineers and Architects (ICEA), Surat and The Institution of Engineers-India (South Gujarat Local Centre) and so on. He is awarded on several occasions for the best contributions to these professional organizations.
He is serving as Hon. Secretary cum Treasurer at ISTE Gujarat Section and Hon. Treasurer at IUT (India) SVNIT Regional Chapter (Gujarat-Rajasthan). Being a proud donor, recognized internationally as Multiple PHF by Rotary International, he is the President of the Rotary Club of Vallabh Vidyanagar for Rotary Year 2020-21 and 2021-22.
Having H-Index as 7, he has so far published 85+ research articles in journals and conferences and technical volumes (available for reference on the ResearchGate website). He is serving as an Editor as well as paper referee in SCOPUS/SCI journals such as ICE Urban Planning-UK, Journal of Water and Climate, Current Science, GRD Journals, IJER and so on. He also extends his volunteer services to conference organizers as a paper reviewer. He has been honoured with Four Best Paper Awards at International Conferences in India and abroad so far and one award at National Convention. He has authored two chapters in an international collaborative-based books publication by Springer-Nature. He has guided 36 PG Urban Planning Dissertation research and 13 undergraduate civil engineering project groups. He has delivered more than 50 invited talks at several events. He has been declared as a WINNER (national level position among top-50) in MAPATHON-2020 organized jointly by IITB-ISRO-AICTE. He served the Gujarat Technological University as Master Trainer for Design Engineering and contributed through conducting a number of Faculty Development Program sessions at the Gujarat Technological University and also assisted in developing the coursework and curriculum of creative and enlightening course of the Design Engineering. He has been providing opportunities of learning Geospatial technologies the course-works offered for GNSS-Remote Sensing-GIS-Statistical Package for further exploration by aspirants for research activities and professional practices.
In the year 2021, He received doctoral award as PhD in Civil Engineering by exploring the relationship among local climate parameters and urban land-use planning at the Gujarat Technological University under the guidance of Dr Neerajkumar D. Sharma. He has been contributing Open Educational Resources through self-managed learning portal – www.bvbhatt.com.
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