Prof. Prabhakar V Varde

Guest-Professor, Lulea University of Technology, Sweden & Senior Professor, Homi Bhabha Nation Institute (Former)

Prof. Prabhakar V. Varde, Guest Professor, Lulea Technology University,Lulea Sweden,President, Society for Reliability and Safety, India; Former Outstanding Scientist, Senior Professor at Homi Bhabha National Institute (Former) & Associate Director, Reactor Group at BARC, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai. He also served for two terms as Professor of Practice at IIT Madras, and was awarded Raja Ramanna Fellow, during 2021 and 2024. at BARC and He is also a Visiting Professorat Center for Advanced Life Cycle Engineering, University of Maryland, MD, USA.

He has been actively involved in the area of reliability and probabilistic risk assessment for over 25 years. He has developed PRA model for the nuclear plants at BARC as also worked a vice chairman of the AERB committee for PSA for DAE facilities for over 15 years. He took classes for Reliability Engineering for four terms at BARC Training School and University of Maryland. He has set up four labs, viz, nuclear reactor simulator, Life Cycle Reliability Engineering, Prognostics and Health Management and Accelerated Life Testing labs, to support for advanced research in the area of risk and reliability engineering.

He is the lead founder of Society for Reliability and Safety in India and the lead Chief-Editor for SRESA’s Int. Journal Life Cycle Reliability and Safety Engineering. He organized four international (ICRESH) and 5 national conferences (NCRS) in last 17 years.

Based on his research he has over 250 publications at national and international level that includes peer reviewed journal. This also includes 17 edited- referred conference proceedings, authored books and Technical Volumes. His google scholar 1100 citations and H-Index is 11, I-Index-11. He is consultant to International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna and OECDs NEA-WGRISK, Paris in the area of Probabilistic Risk Assessment. He is a Ph.D. and M.Tech. guide and Ph.D. examiner at IIT Bombay, IIT Madras, IIT Kharagpur, IIIT-DMG, Jabalpur, Delhi University and in many national institutions and universities.

Presently he is also working as President, SRESA for spreading risk and reliability awareness not only in academic circles, but engineering students and developing means a method to develop tools and methods to support national programs. One of these initiatives is development of engineering codes and standards in the area of safety and reliability, working on setting up Indian Institute of Risk and Reliability (IIRR).

NOC: Risk-Conscious Operations Management (RCOM), Homi Bhabha National Institute