Gyanendra Nath Pande


Gyanendra Nath Pande or Gyan N Pande was a British civil engineer of Indian descent associated with developments in computational engineering. He was Emeritus Professor at the Centre for Civil and Computational Engineering at Swansea University and founder president of the International Centre for Computational Engineering.

Education and career

Pande grew up in India and obtained Bachelor of Technology in civil engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur in 1959. He worked in the field of geomechanics, gaining more than ten years experience as a project engineer in tunnelling and hydroelectric installations in the Himalayas. From 1973 he studied at University of Wales from where he received a PhD in 1976.
He joined the Department of Civil Engineering of the University of Wales in 1975 as lecturer, and was awarded a 'Personal Chair' in 1994.
In 1985 he was the founding editor of the computational geomechanics journal, Computers & Geotechnics. He was the founder president of the International Centre for Computational Engineering, an organisation instrumental in setting up research and collaborations between universities and industry.
He was Emeritus Professor at Swansea University and a Fellow of Institution of Civil Engineers.
He died on 20 January 2020.

Professional appointments

Pande wrote over 50 books and numerous papers.

Personal and family life

Pande was a founding member and trustee of the Tridev Meditation and Spiritual Awareness Society at Swansea.
Pande's younger brother Jitendra Nath Pande was professor and head of medicine, AIIMS, New Delhi, India. He is currently senior consultant at the Sitaram Bhartia Institute of Science and Research, New Delhi.