Vijay Prasad Dimri

Vijay Prasad Dimri is an Indian geophysical scientist, known for his contributions in opening up a new research area in Earth sciences by establishing a parallelism between deconvolution and inversion, the two vital geophysical signal processing tools deployed in minerals and oil and gas exploration. In 2010, the Government of India awarded him with the Padma Shri, India's fourth highest civilian award, for his contributions to the fields of science and technology.

Biography

Dimri was born in 1948 at a small hamlet called Dimmar in Chamoli district. His post graduate and doctoral studies were at the Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad. He is also an honorary Professor at Andhra University and holds the position of adjunct professor at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur and the Osmania University, Hyderabad. and sits on the Scientific Planning and Review committee of the International Council for Science (ICSU). Thus, he was successful in establishing a parallelism between deconvolution and inversion, two vital signal processing tools. brought out by publishers such as Elsevier, Springer and Balkema He also holds three patents

Positions Vijay Prasad Dimri is the president of Andhra Pradesh Academy of Sciences from 2010 and the National Academy of Sciences. He delivered the presidential address at the ISCA in 2008 and IGU convention in 2009 Indian National Science Academy (INSA), New Delhi, National Academy of Sciences, Allahabad, Indian Society of Applied Geochemists and AP Akademy of Sciences, Andhra Pradesh. He has been recognised as the CSIR-Distinguished Scientist by the CSIR-National Geophysical Research Institute, Hyderabad.