Professor Shamsher Bahadur Singh is a Fellow of six prominent organizations such as  Fellow of  American Society of Civil Engineers (FASCE),  Fellow of Structural Engineering  Institute (F.SEI), Fellow of Institution of Civil Engineers (FICE), UK,Fellow of Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructures (FCDRI), Fellow of Institution of Engineers (FIE), Fellow of Indian Association of Structural Engineers (FIAStructE), Chartered Engineer (India) and holds a Professional Engineering (Civil) license from Michigan State, USA. He is a Recipient of several Fellowships, e.g., Post-doctorate Fellowship from Lawrence Technological University (LTU), USA, Quality Improvement Program (QIP) Fellowship at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur, Research Fellowship at Motilal Nehru Regional Engineering College, Allahabad, as well as National Merit Scholarship from Regional Engineering College (REC), Warangal, and Integrated scholarship at schools. He has more than 250 publications to his credit which include more than 200 research papers, 10 books, 14 research reports, and 25 book chapters, 2 theses, and 3 Patents. Professor Murty received B.Tech. (Civil Engineering) and M.Tech. (Civil Engineering with specialization in Structural Engineering) degrees from Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India, and Ph.D. degree with specialization in Earthquake Engineering from California Institute of Technology, USA. Currently, he P. S. Rao Institute Chair Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at IIT Madras. He teaches nonlinear structural analysis and ductile design of reinforced concrete and steel buildings and bridges. His primary R&D interest is nonlinear earthquake behavior of buildings and bridges towards developing displacement-based and energy-based earthquake-resistant designs.