Prof. Kenneth H. Stokoe II

University of Texas at Austin

Prof. Kenneth H. Stokoe II has been working in the areas of field seismic measurements, dynamic laboratory measurements, and dynamic soil-structure interaction for more than 40 years. He has been instrumental in developing several small-strain field methods for in-situ shear wave velocity measurements. He has also developed two types of resonant column systems that are used to evaluate dynamic soil and rock properties in the laboratory. Over the last 14 years, Prof. Stokoe has led the development of large-scale mobile field equipment for dynamic loading of geotechnical systems, foundations and structures, an activity that has been funded by the National Science Foundation in the NEES (Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation) program. The equipment has already led to the development of new testing methods to evaluate soil nonlinearity and liquefaction directly in the field. Prof. Stokoe has received several honors and awards, including election to the National Academy of Engineering, the Harold Mooney Award from the Society of Exploration Geophysicists, the C.A. Hogentogler Award from the American Society for Testing and Materials, and the H. Bolton Seed Medal and the Karl Terzaghi Distinguished Lecturer from the American Society of Civil Engineers.

Prof. I. M. Idriss

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Davis

Prof. I.M. Idriss, a UC Davis professor emeritus of geotechnical engineering has been involved with the follow-up analysis of many major earthquakes since the 1964 Alaska quake, including those at San Fernando, Mexico City, Northridge and Kobe; he has been part of the team of engineers that descends on a region in the aftermath of a major quake, to analyze damage and determine causes of structural collapse. His research on soil mechanics and foundation engineering has influenced the construction of dams, nuclear power plants, seaports, office buildings, residences, hospitals, railways and bridges around the world. In 1982 Prof. Idriss as a co-author produced monograph entitled Ground Motions and Soil Liquefaction During Earthquakes, which acted as a classical text and was used around the world. In 2008, Prof. Idriss and Prof. Boulanger produced another EERI monograph on soil liquefaction, entitled Soil Liquefaction during Earthquakes, which is rapidly becoming the de facto state of the art manual for the assessment of liquefaction potential. In 1999, Prof. Idriss received a UC Davis Distinguished Public Service Award, an honor that recognizes faculty members who have made public service contributions to the community, state, nation and world throughout their professional careers. This followed his 1989 election to the National Academy of Engineering, and the many high honors he has received from the American Society of Civil Engineers.

Prof. Kyle M. Rollins

Brigham Young University

Prof. Kyle Rollins received his BS degree from Brigham Young University and his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley. After working as a geotechnical consultant, he joined the Civil Engineering faculty at BYU in 1987 following after his father who was previously a geotechnical professor. His research has involved geotechnical earthquake engineering, deep foundation behavior, bridge abutment behavior, collapsible soils and soil improvement techniques. ASCE has recognized his work with the Huber research award, the Wellington prize, and the Wallace Hayward Baker award. In 2009, he was the Cross-Canada Geotechnical lecturer for the Canadian Geotechnical Society. He received the Jorj Osterberg Award from the Deep Foundations Institute in 2014.

Prof. Charles W W NG

President of the ISSMGE

Prof. Charles W.W. Ng is currently the CLP Holdings Professor of Sustainability, Chair Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Associate Vice-President for Research and Development at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). He is the President of International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (2017-2021). Prof. Ng earned his PhD degree from the University of Bristol, UK in 1993. After carrying out a period of post-doctoral research at the University of Cambridge between 1993 and 1995, he returned to Hong Kong and joined HKUST as Assistant Professor in 1995 and rose through the ranks to become Chair Professor in 2011. Prof. Ng was elected an Overseas Fellow from Churchill College, Cambridge University, in 2005 and was also elected as a Changjiang Scholar (Chair Professor in Geotechnical Engineering) by the Ministry of Education in China in 2010. He is Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers, the American Society of Civil Engineers, the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers and the Hong Kong Academy of Engineering Sciences. Currently, he is an Associate Editor of the Canadian Geotechnical Journal.

Prof. Ahmed Elgamal

University of California, San Diego

Ahmed Elgamal is a Professor of Geotechnical Engineering at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). Currently, he is serving as the School of Engineering Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs. Earlier, he chaired the Department of Structural Engineering (2003-2007). He received his PhD in 1985 from Princeton University. In 1997, he joined UCSD after a Post-doctoral appointment at the California Institute of Technology (CalTech), and Faculty positions at RPI and Columbia University in New York. His areas of research interest include liquefaction and effects on the built environment, large-scale soil-structure experimental and computational simulation, sustainability in Geomechanics, Information Technology (IT) applications, and system-identification procedures. He is author and co-author of over 300 Technical Publications, and currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering. Over the years, he has consulted and provided professional services in the general areas of Geomechanics and Geotechnical Engineering for a number of national and international organizations.

Prof. Ikuo Towhata

Professor Emeritus, University of Tokyo

Prof. Ikuo Towhata is Professor emeritus, University of Tokyo and was distinguished Visiting Professor at IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India, till December 2016, JICA Expert, IIT Hyderabad, India, till March 2017, President of Japanese Geotechnical Society 2014-2016, Vice President for Asia, ISSMGE 2013-2017. His major fields of interests are (1) Deformation characteristics of cohesionless soils, (2) Dynamic analysis of earth structures during earthquakes (3) Permanent displacement of ground caused by seismic liquefaction (4) Soil improvement by densification and grouting (5) Microscopic Observation of Granular Behavior of Sand Subjected to Shear (6) Dynamics of landslide and debris flow etc. Recently Prof. Ikuo Towhata worked on Recovery and retrofitting for future of infrastructures (residential islands, river levees and Fukushima No.1 Nuclear Power Plant) that were damaged by the 2011 Tohoku gigantic earthquake; liquefaction and nuclear disaster. Prof. Ikuo Towhata has got more than 400 English papers in international journals and conferences, including a comprehensive book on geotechnical earthquake engineering.

Prof. Scott J. Brandenberg

University of California, Los Angeles

Prof. Scott J. Brandenberg earned his doctorate degree from the University of California, Davis. His research interests are geotechnical earthquake engineering, geophysical imaging, data acquisition and signal processing, and numerical analysis. Prof. Scott J. Brandenberg has received several honors and awards: 2015 Walter L. Huber Award, 2013 Shamsher Prakash Research Award, 2012 ASCE Student Chapter Outstanding Professor Award, 2010 Arthur Casagrande Professional Development Award, 2004 UC Davis Prize for Excellence in Geotechnical Engineering and many more. Prof. Scott J. Brandenberg is currently handling many research projects being sponsored by Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center, National Science Foundation through NEESR program, and National Science Foundation through NEESR program.

Prof. Adrian Rodriguez-Marek

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Prof. Adrian Rodriguez-Marek obtained his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley in Civil Engineering in 2000. He then joined the faculty at Washington State University and since 2010 is a faculty member in the Civil and Environmental Engineering department at Virginia Tech. Prof. Rodriguez-Marek research and teaching is in the area of geotechnical earthquake engineering with a focus on site response and seismic hazard analysis. His major research contributions are in the areas of ground motion characterization and on the treatment of uncertainty in seismic hazard analysis. In particular, Prof. Rodriguez-Marek has contributed to the development of the concept of non-ergodic seismic hazard analysis, which implies a more rigorous treatment of uncertainty in ground motions in hazard analysis applications. Prof. Rodriguez-Marek’s work on the characterization of single-station standard deviation has been used in various hazard assessment projects for nuclear power plants. Prof. Rodriguez-Marek has also participated in various seismic hazard assessment projects for Nuclear Power plants across the globe, including projects in South Africa, Spain and the United States.

Prof. V.K. Puri

Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Southern Illinois University

Prof. Youssef Hashash

Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Prof. Eun Chul Shin

Vice President-Asia, ISSMGE

He was born in Korea and graduated from Chungbuk National University in Korea. He obtained his M.S. degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder, USA in 1987 and a Ph.D degree from the Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, USA in 1994. Since graduation, he has been teaching geotechnical engineering at the Incheon National University, Korea, where he obtained a full professorship in 2005 and has served as dean of the Urban Science Collage until 2016. He is a Director of Creative Educational Program for Future City Design which is supported by the Ministry of Education in Korea. Now, he is a Vice President of ISSMGE for Asia(2017-2021). He has published 5 books on the geotechnical, geo-environmental and civil engineering related subjects as well as more than 100 journal papers and 150 conference papers. He participated in several geotechnical and geosynthetics touring lectures organized by the ISSMGE and the International Geosynthetic Society in many countries.

Prof. Gopal Madabhushi

Cambridge University

Prof. Gopal Madabhushi is a Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Cambridge, UK and the Director of the Schofield Centre. He is also the Head of the Geotechnical and Geo-Environmental Group at Cambridge. He has over 25 years of experience in the area of Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering. His expertise extends from dynamic centrifuge modelling to the time domain finite element analyses of earthquake engineering problems. He has an active interest in the areas of soil liquefaction, soil-structure interaction and liquefaction resistant measures and their performances. He has an active interest in the biomechanics of hip replacement surgeries. He served as the Chairman of Earthquake Engineering Field Investigation Team (EEFIT) that runs under the auspicious of Institute of Structural Engineers, London. He served on the BGA Executive Committee from 2014-16. He was awarded the TK Hsieh award in 2005, 2010 and 2013 by the Institution of Civil Engineers, UK, the BGA medal in 2010 given by British Geotechnical Association, the Shamsher Prakash Research Award in 2006, Medical Innovations Award in 2007 the IGS-AIMIL Biennial award in 2008 and the Bill Curtin Medal in October 2009 by the Institution of Civil Engineers, UK, IGS-ONGC Biennial Award in 2013, IGS-Prof Shamsher Prakash Biennial Award in 2016 for his contributions in the area of Soil Dynamics, Tsunami’s and Earthquake Engineering. He has 150+ Journal Publications and 275+ papers in International conferences and workshops to date. He has authored a very successful book on the Design of Pile Foundations in Liquefiable Soils (Imperial College Press) and Geotechnical Chapters in the book on Designing to Eurocode 8, 2nd Edition (Taylor & Francis).

Prof. Krishna Reddy

University of Illinois, Chicago

Dr. Krishna Reddy is Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, the Director of Sustainable Engineering Research Laboratory, and also the Director of the Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering Laboratory at the University of Illinois, Chicago, USA. Dr. Reddy’s research expertise includes: (1) environmental remediation of soils, sediments, groundwater, and stormwater; (2) solid and hazardous waste management and landfill engineering; (3) engineering applications of waste/recycled materials; (4) life cycle assessment and sustainable engineering; and (5) geotechnical engineering. He has published 4 books, 219 journal papers, and 222 conference papers, and has given 192 invited presentations in the USA and 19 other countries. Dr. Reddy is on Editorial Boards of over 10 different journals. He has been an active member of various professional societies, including the ASCE. Dr. Reddy has received several awards, including the ASCE Wesley W. Horner Award, the ASTM Hogentogler Award, the University Distinguished Researcher Award, the University of Illinois Scholar Award, and the University of Illinois Award for Excellence in Teaching. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers, a Board Certified Environmental Engineer, and a Diplomate of Geotechnical Engineering. He is a registered Professional Civil Engineer and an Envision Sustainability Professional.

Prof. Amir M. Kaynia

Professor, Department of Structural Engineering
Norwegian University of science and technology

Prof. Amir M. Kaynia is Technical Expert in Vibration and Earthquake Engineering at NGI, and Adjunct Professor at Dept. of Structural Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). He has received his MSc and PhD degrees in Structural Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His areas of research and practice include Earthquake Engineering, Soil Dynamics and Soil-Structure Interaction. He has published more than 170 papers in peer reviewed journals and international conference proceedings and has held numerous keynote lectures worldwide. He has participated in many research projects funded by the European Commission and has coordinated three major projects funded by the European Commission, the Norwegian Research Council, and Joint Industry initiatives. In addition, he has led many national and international offshore and on-shore industrial projects. He is member of the Project Team for revision of Eurocode 8, Part 5 on geotechnical aspects of earthquake resistant design. He is also chairman of the Norwegian Earthquake Committee for national standards.

Prof. Sebastiano Foti

Politecnico di Torino

Prof. Sebastiano Foti is professor in Geotechnical Engineering and Vice-Rector for Education at Politecnico di Torino, where he also received his PhD degree. He has been chair for the Civil Engineering program from 2015 to 2018. He is a member of the Technical Committees TC 203: Earthquakes and a past core member of TC 102: In situ tests of ISSMGE. He is part of the Project Team for drafting the new version of Eurocode 7 - Geotechnical design - Part 2: Ground investigation and testing. His research activity is mainly devoted to geophysical methods for geotechnical characterization, with particular reference to surface wave testing, seismic waves in porous media and the use of geophysical techniques in the lab. His other research interests include seismic site response, soil-structure interaction, structural dynamic tests for the assessment of existing foundation systems. He has published over 180 papers in scientific journals and technical conferences, three books and six book chapters. He served in the editorial board of Soils and Foundations from 2015 to 2017. He was awarded the Geotechnical Research Medal (Bishop Medal) 2003 by the Institution of Civil Engineers (UK) for the best paper on geotechnical engineering and an Honorable Mention in the Best Paper category in the Geophysics journal in 2011 by the Society of Exploration Geophysics (USA).

Prof. Ronald D. Andrus

Professor, Glenn Department of Civil Engineering Clemson University

Prof. Ronald D. Andrus is a Professor in the Glenn Department of Civil Engineering at Clemson University. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Brigham Young University and his Ph.D. from The University of Texas at Austin. After serving nearly five years as a research civil engineer for the U.S. Department of Commerce at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, Maryland, he joined the Faculty at Clemson University in 1999. He has had the privilege and honor to served two terms as Interim Department Chair. His areas of research interest include liquefaction in aged soil deposits, geotechnical site characterization, dynamic soil properties, and seismic hazard analysis.

Prof. A. S. Papageorgiou

Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Patras, Greece

Prof. Apostolos S. Papageorgiou has completed his B.Sc. (1976) Civil Engineering (Structural Engineering) from M.I.T and M.Sc. (1978) Civil Engineering (Structural Engineering) and Mechanical Engineering (Engineering Mechanics) from M.I.T, and Ph.D. Civil Engineering (Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Seismology) from M.I.T. in 1981. He is presently working as Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Division of Structural Engineering, University of Patras, since June 2004. Earlier he worked as Professor, Department of Civil, Structural, and Environmental Engineering, University at Buffalo, from January 1999 – May 2004. He has taught at the Seoul National University (2011-2012), Seoul, Korea, and at the ROSE School, University of Pavia, Italy. He has also been a visiting scientist at Princeton University and at the U.S. Geological Survey, Pasadena, CA. He has received The Richard Lee Russel Award of 1976, of the Dept. of Civil Engineering, M.I.T. in recognition of distinguished academic achievements. He is a reviewer of the research conducted by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) on the Seismic Hazard Characterization of the Eastern United States. Review requested by the Panel of Seismic Hazard Analysis of the Committee on Seismology, National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences. He is a member, for three consecutive years, of a review panel for research awards granted by U.S. Geological Survey for the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP), Seismic Effects Committee of the Structures Division of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and the Dynamics Committee of the Engineering Mechanics Division of ASCE.

Prof. Brady R. Cox

Professor, Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering University of Texas, Austin

Prof. Brady R. Cox is currently Professor in the Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering at the University of Texas, Austin. In 2011, Dr. Cox received the prestigious Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award from the National Science Foundation for his work on quantifying uncertainty in surface wave methods used for non-intrusive geotechnical site investigations. In 2012, he received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientist and Engineers (PECASE) from President Barack Obama, which is the highest honor bestowed by the United States government for science and engineering professionals in the early stages of the independent research careers. His Ph.D. graduate research centered around the development of a new in-situ test method for directly measuring the dynamic pore pressure response and nonlinear shear modulus behavior of liquefiable soil deposits. For this research, he was selected as the 2004-2005 FEMA Graduate Fellow in Earthquake Hazard Reduction by the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI).

Prof. Fraser Bransby

Fugro Chair in Geotechnics - Centre for Offshore Foundation Systems

Fraser is the Fugro Chair in Geotechnics and the University of Western Australia, a position that involves interacting with Fugro and the University to direct and filter research for use by the offshore industry. After graduating from Cambridge University with a degree and PhD in 1995, Fraser spent 15 years at the Universities of Cambridge, Western Australia and Dundee researching and teaching geotechnical engineering topics including offshore, earthquake and biologically-linked geotechnical engineering. In 2010, Fraser joined Advanced Geomechanics (now Fugro) where he led geotechnical support to many projects worldwide, particularly related to pipelines/flowlines and subsea structures. Since moving back to UWA in 2018, he continues to offer part-time technical support to Fugro projects whilst leading research at UWA in a wide range of offshore topics. Title of Talk: Seismic design of offshore foundations on carbonate sediments.

Prof. Gian Paolo Cimellaro

Associate Professor, Department of Structural, Building & Geotechnical Engineering Politecnico di Torino

Gian Paolo Cimellaro is currently Associate Professor at the Politecnico di Torino. He has been recently Visiting Professor at the University of California, Berkeley (2014-2016). He obtained his M.S. (2005) and Ph.D. (2008) from the University at Buffalo (SUNY) in USA. Graduated cum laude in Civil Engineering, University of Rome La Sapienza, 2001. He is the Chair of the SHMII Committee on Resilient Structures and Infrastructure (CORSI) of the International Society for structural Health Monitoring of Intelligent Infrastructures. He is also SHMII Council member of the Governing body of the International Society for structural Health Monitoring of Intelligent Infrastructures. He has been invited to 10 Keynote lectures and 30+ seminars worldwide. He has authored 73 journal papers, 192 conference papers, 17 book chapters and 5 books. Research interests: community disaster resilience and sustainability to natural disasters. He has been awarded with a grant of 1.3 M € by the European Research Council for the project "IDEAL RESCUE - ERC-2014-StG. He is Editorial Board member of several ISI-journals. Selected awards: Fib Achievement Award for Young Engineers (2011); Seed Grant Award from the Siebel Energy Institute of UC Berkeley (2015), Best Presentation Award (2017) at SHMII8, Brisbane.

Dr. Amod Mani Dixit

Executive Director, National Society for Earthquake Technology, Nepal

General Secretary, National Society for Earthquake Technology Nepal (NSET) Dr. Dixit holds a Doctor of Engineering from Ehime University, Japan. His 46 years of professional experience covers stints with the Government of Nepal, private engineering consultancy, and also as a visiting professorship with Tribhuvan and Kathmandu universities of Nepal and Ehime University of Japan. Currently, he is the Chairperson of the Asian Disaster Reduction and Response Network (ADRRN) of 50 civil Society Organizations (CSOs) working in Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and Disaster Preparedness (DP) in 20 countries of Asia and the Pacific. He is a member of the Disaster Working Group of the Digital Belt and Road Initiative (DBAR-Disaster), and the Director of the International Centre of Excellence of Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR/ ICOE). He founded the National Society for Earthquake Technology Nepal (NSET) and serves as its General Secretary. He has worked extensively in Nepal and many Asian countries for disaster risk reduction and earthquake response. Mr. Dixit sat as a Member of the Scientific Board, and later as a Member of the Governing Board of the Global Earthquake Model (GEM). Dr. Dixit has received several national and international awards and recognitions including the prestigious Disaster Mitigation Award from the Government of India in 2009 for his work in DRR. He has published more than 100 scientific reports, book chapters, and papers.

Prof. Subhamoy Bhattacharya

Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of Surrey

Professor Bhattacharya is a Chartered Civil Engineer (CEng) and Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers (FICE). He currently holds the Chair in Geomechanics at the University of Surrey (UK) and directs SAGE (Surrey Advanced Geotechnical Engineering) laboratory, a specialized soil mechanics/geotechnical engineering laboratory for research and industrial testing. He is also the Programme Director for the specialized MSc course on Advanced Geotechnical Engineering, Adjunct professor at Zhejiang University (China), Guest Professor at Qingdao Technological University (China), Visiting Fellow at the University of Bristol (UK). Previously, Professor Bhattacharya held academic posts at: University of Bristol (Senior Lecturer in Dynamics), University of Oxford (Departmental Lecturer), Junior Research Fellow (Somerville College, Oxford), 21st Century Centre of Excellence Fellow (Tokyo Institute of Technology). Professor Bhattacharya obtained his PhD from University of Cambridge (UK).His research interests are in dynamic soil-structure interaction (both in earthquake and offshore), earthquake geotechnical engineering and advanced soil element testing. He has more than 20 years’ professional and research experience in the behaviour and design of foundations in extreme environments. He wrote one text book: Foundation design for offshore wind turbines (Wiley) and co-authored two text books: Fundamental of Engineering Mathematics (ICE-Thomas Telford Publishing) and Seismic design of foundations: Concepts and Applications (ICE-Thomas Telford Publishing).

Prof. Hemanta Hazarika

Kyushu University

Dr. Gang Wang

Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Prof. Gang Wang is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He obtained his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley in 2005. His areas of research interest include strong motion characterization, physics-based earthquake simulation, nonlinear numerical modeling of soil-structure interaction, soil liquefaction and landslide hazard, micromechanics of particulate media. He is presently Vice President of Hong Kong Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, member of ISSMGE TC203 Technical Committee for Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering, Past President of ASCE Hong Kong Section. He published more than 50 research papers in reputable SCI journals, and currently serves as Associate Editor of Advances in Structural Engineering, CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, and Journal of Micromechanics and Molecular Physics. He was awarded Li Foundation Heritage Prize, Outstanding Oversees Scholar Award from National Natural Science Foundation of China, HKUST School of Engineering Distinguished Teaching Award, and Mao Yisheng Youth Award from Chinese Institution of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering.

Dr. Gabriele Chiaro

University of Canterbury

Gabriele is a Senior Lecturer in Geotechnical Engineering at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand. His research focuses mainly on Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering and related problems; Geo-disaster investigation and mitigation; Development of advanced laboratory and field testing devices; Geo-environmental Engineering; Ground improvement techniques for granular soils; Constitutive and numerical modelling of problematic soil behaviour. Gabriele holds a BScCE degree (2004) and an MScCE degree (2007) from the University of Cassino and Southern Lazio, Italy, and a PhD degree in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering (2010) from the University of Tokyo, Japan. Before joining the University of Canterbury in June 2015, Gabriele was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Tokyo (2010-2011; 2014-2015), Japan, and at the University of Wollongong, Australia (2011-2014). To date, Gabriele has authored over 100 scientific publications, mostly in the field of Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering. He was awarded the prestigious JSPS Research Fellowship in 2014. Gabriele was the Team Leader of the 2016 NZSEE “Learning form Earthquake” Mission in Kumamoto, Japan, and Team Co-leader of the 2015 JGS/JSCE “Learning form Earthquake” Mission in Gorkha, Nepal. Currently, he is the Science Leader of a NZ$ 1M Research Project funded by the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment of NZ (MBIE Smart Ideas Grant, 2018), Co-Editor of the NZ Geomechanics News of the NZ Geotechnical Society, and an Associate Editor for the International Journal of Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering.

Dr. Md. Mizanur Rahman

Associate Professor in Geotechnical Engineering, School of Natural and Built Environments University of South Australia

Prof. Mizanur Rahman is Associate Professor in Geotechnical Engineering and leading a geotechnical research group of 3 academics, 2 research associates and about 10 PhD students. He has strong track record of translating his fundamental theoretical research into industry-funded engineering applications for liquefaction assessment, pavement engineering, recycling materials for circular economy, soil reactivity and buried lifeline. His research fund is over $2.3M since 2012. He has published about 130 peer-reviewed articles and known internationally for the excellence of his multidisciplinary research. He was awarded the University Gold Madel for his outstanding academic record. He obtained his PhD in Civil Engineering from the University of New South Wales (UNSW, Canberra) in 2009. In December 2010, he joined at UniSA as lecturer and promoted to senior lecturer and associate professor in 2014 and 2018 respectively. Prof. Rahman is leading many research projects university wide and providing extensive mentoring support to early career researcher. He is one of the four research strand leaders of Natural and built environments research center (NBERC)AsPr Rahman is leading many research projects university wide and providing extensive mentoring support to early career researcher. He is one of the four research strand leaders of Natural and built environments research center (NBERC).

Dr. J. S. Vinod

University of Wollongong

Prof. J. S. Vinod is an Associate Professor at the University of Wollongong (UOW). He received his doctoral degree in geotechnical engineering from Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore. He has worked as a research fellow at IISc and UOW before joining as a lecturer at UOW. His research focussed on numerical modelling of granular materials and soil dynamics, earthquake engineering and ground improvement techniques for rails and mines. He is an associate editor for the Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering (ASCE) and Co-Editor of International Journal of geotechnical earthquake engineering (IGI- Global: USA). He is actively involved in the Australian Research Council (ARC) and Cooperative Research Centres (CRC) projects on ground improvement techniques, railway geotechnics, and mine tailings. He has published over 85 peer-reviewed research papers in reputed international journals and conferences.

Prof. Sankar Kumar Nath

Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur

Professor Sankar Kumar Nath (born 1960), is an Indian Geophysicist, Seismologist and a Senior Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. He is known for his Geotomographical studies and is an elected Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering, Indian Geophysical Union, National Academy of Sciences, India and West Bengal Academy of Science & Technology. He has amply been successful in making an excellent blend of Exploration and Solid-Earth Geophysics and Earthquake Hazard Science and Engineering with front ranking contributions in the near-surface Imaging, source, path, site and ground response characterization, Landslide and Liquefaction susceptibility zoning, Seismic Hazard, Vulnerability and Risk Microzonation so vitally needed for our Globe. His studies have been documented in several peer-reviewed articles; online repositories of scientific articles have listed 250+ of them. He is the author of the Seismic Microzonation Manual and Seismic Microzonation Handbook published by the Ministry of Earth Sciences and Edited the Training Handbook for the Faculty of the State Resource Institutions, a reference manual for capacity building in earthquake risk management published by the Ministry of Home Affairs. Nath, is also credited with the establishment of a strong motion network of 16 earthquake monitoring stations in the Darjeeling-Sikkim Himalaya and one National Broadband Seismological Observatory at the Kharagpur campus of IIT Kharagpur. Nath received the National Mineral Award of the Ministry of Mines in 1999 and The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, one of the highest Indian Science Awards in 2002.

Prof. K.S. Rao

Department of Civil Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi

Prof. G.L. Sivakumar Babu

President, IGS & Professor in Civil Engineering,Indian Institute of Science

Prof. A. Boominathan

Department of Civil Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Madras

Prof. Deepankar Choudhury

Institute Chair Professor IIT Bombay, Mumbai

Prof. Deepankar Choudhury is Institute Chair Professor of Civil Engineering department at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, Mumbai, India and Adjunct Professor of Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR) of CSIR laboratories (connected to CSIR-CBRI Roorkee) of India. Prof. Choudhury has pursued B.E from Jadavpur University Kolkata, India in 1997, ME Civil Geotechnical Engg. and PhD in Civil Geotechnical Earthquake Engg. from IISc Bangalore, India in 2002, Prof. Choudhury also worked as a Visiting Fellow/Faculty at NUS Singapore, UoW Australia, UC Berkeley USA,etc. Prof. Choudhury is an elected Fellow (FNASc) of the oldest Science Academy of India, viz. The National Academy of Sciences, India. He is an Associate Editor of ASCE-International Journal of Geomechanics, Indian Geotechnical Journal (Springer), Journal of Civil Engineering of Institution of Engineers India (Springer), INAE Letters (Springer). He serves as Editorial Board Member for Soils and Foundations (Elsevier), Canadian Geotechnical Journal, Geotechnical and Geological Engineering (Springer), Geomechanics and Engineering (Techno-Press). Prof. Choudhury’s major research areas are Civil Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering, Computational Geomechanics, Foundation Engineering, Soil Dynamics. Prof. Choudhury authored over 250 technical publications including about 140 peer reviewed journal papers which are highly cited all over the world. He is the current Secretary of technical committee TC-207 (Soil-Structure Interactions and Retaining Walls) of International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE) and former Secretary of TC-212 (Deep Foundations) of ISSMGE, in addition to present and former member of TC-203 and Editorial Board of ISSMGE Bulletin.

Prof. B.V.S. Viswanadham

Institute Chair Professor Department of Civil Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

Prof. Gali Madhavi Latha

Department of Civil Engineering Indian Institute of Science

Madhavi Latha is a Professor at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. She obtained her Ph.D. degree from Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India. Prior to joining Indian Institute of Science in 2003, she was an Assistant Professor at Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati for a year. Her areas of specializations include geocell reinforcement, soil-geosynthetic interactions, image-based characterizations. seismic response of reinforced soil structures and rock engineering. She has so far supervised 15 Ph.D. students. She has published more than 150 technical papers in international and national journals and conferences. Prof. Madhavi Latha is the primary geotechnical consultant for the worlds highest railway bridge being constructed in Jammu, India. She received ‘Teacher Extraordinaire’ award from the Builders Association of India and several national and international best paper awards. She is a member of ISSMGE Technical Committees on “soil structure interaction and retaining walls”, “Geo-mechanics from micro to macro” and IGS Technical Committee on “Soil reinforcement”. She is currently the Editor-in-chief of Indian Geotechnical Journal published by Springer and an Associate editor of Geotextiles and Geomembranes published by Elsevier.

Prof. G.V. Ramana

Department of Civil Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Delhi

Prof. Bal Krishna Maheshwari

Department of Earthquake Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee

Dr. B.K. Bansal

Programme Head, (Seismology and Earthquake Precursors) Ministry of Earth Sciences, Government of India

Dr. I.D. Gupta

Ex-Director Central Water And Power Research Station

Prof. G.R. Dodagoudar

Department of Civil Enginering Indian Institute of Technology Madras

Prof. Satyendra Mittal

Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee

Dr. Satyendra Mittal obtained his B.E. (Civil) degree from MNR Engg. College, Allahabad and Masters and Ph.D. degrees from I.I.T. Roorkee. Presently, He is Coordinator (Head) of Geotechnical Engineering Group of Civil Engineering Deptt., IIT Roorkee. He is author of over 90 technical papers published in national and international journals and conferences. Dr. Mittal’s research activities include “Ground Improvement Techniques”, “Soil Dynamics” and basic geotechnical engineering. His field work on Ground Improvement Techniques has been selected for seeking patent rights. He also prepared a technical film on “Reinforced Earth Technology”. He is also member of reviewers’ panel of American Society of Civil Engineering., Canadian journal, IGS journal and Koreans journals on Civil Engg. Dr. Mittal has guided nearly 50 Master’s thesis and 7 Ph.D. thesis in I.I.T. Roorkee. Currently he is guiding 5 Ph.D. thesis. Currently he is also member of Technology Mission of Indian Railways, and designing the rail track for bullet trains. He is also Editor of ISET (Indian Society of Earthquake Technology) journal. Dr. Mittal is member of several professional bodies like Indian Geotechnical Society, Indian Roads Congress, Indian Water Resources Society, Indian Society of Earthquake Technology etc. He has organized 15 short term courses, 6 national level conferences and three international courses successfully with a wide participation from India and abroad.

Prof. Nihar Ranjan Patra

Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

Prof. Priyanka Ghosh

Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

Dr. Priyanka Ghosh is a Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Kanpur. After completion of PhD from IISc, Bangalore in 2005, he served as faculty member at BITS, Pilani, IIT Kharagpur and IIT Kanpur. His primary research focus is in Computational and Experimental Geomechanics and in particular, analysis of foundations, ground anchors, retaining structures, stability of slopes, vibration isolation and geopolymers. He is the recipient of several awards like “IEI Young Engineers Award” by The Institute of Engineers (India), “Outstanding Young Investigator Award” by International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics (IACMAG), USA, “Scholarship for Young.

Prof. Amit Prashant

Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar

Prof. Ashish Juneja

Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

Dr. P. Anbazhagan

Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

Prof. Dr. Anbazhagan Panjamani is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. Prof P. Anbazhagan works in the major research area of Engineering Seismology, Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering and Applied Geophysics for Geotechnical engineering problems. His works on seismic microzonation of Indian cities is a significant contribution towards improving seismic zonation map of the India. He received the prestigious Endeavor Fellowship Award from Australian Government in 2009 and worked on Railway Ballast in the University of Wollongong, NSW Australia. He received the IEI Young Engineers Award 2010-2011 from The Institution of Engineers (India) and the ISES Order of Merit 2015 Award for Outstanding Work in Earthquake Science, Young Scientist category, Indian Society of Earthquake Science. He received Indian Geotechnical Society Reviewer of the Year 2016 Award for the outstanding contribution to the Indian Geotechnical Journal. Now he is serving as a Research Advisor for Nan Yang Academy of Sciences, Singapore. Prof. P. Anbazhagan is also serving as a visiting professor for the third time in King Saud University (KSU), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He has published about 83 Journal papers; 100 conference papers, 1 book& 3 chapters. As of now, Prof Anbazhagan received about 72.3 million (723 lakhs) Indian Rupees funding so far, and he is an active consultant in his area of research. He is also serving as an expert member on the committees for arriving nuclear power plant design parameters, Department of Atomic Energy. He is also involved in national mission on Dam Rehabilitation and Improvement Project (DRIP).

Prof. Vishwas A. Sawant

Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee

Dr. K. Muthukkumaran

NIT Trichy

Dr. K. Muthukkumaran has obtained Ph.D. in Marine Geotechnical Engineering from IIT Madras in 2005. He worked as a Senior Geotechnical Engineer at OEO, Saudi Arabia (Saudi Aramco Projects) prior to NIT Trichy from 2005 to 2006. In 2006, he joint as lecturer in NIT Trichy and presently he is Professor at NIT Trichy. He has published more than 100 papers in international and national journals and conferences. He has guided 10 Ph.D., 4 MS and 35 Postgraduate theses. He received DST Young Scientist Award and IGS- Smt. Indra Joshi Biennial award by IGS. He has completed 5 R & D (including ISRO - Chandrayaan- 2 Mission project) and 50 major consultancy projects. He is the Founder Chairman of Indian Geotechnical Society (IGS-Trichy) Trichy Chapter. He is a member of ISSMGE (International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering) TC-301 on "Preservation of Historic Sites". He has been elected as member of IGS-Delhi Executive Committee for 2017-18. His area of research is in geotechnical engineering, which includes pile foundation, soil-structure interaction, marine geotechnics & foundations, field instrumentation, geotechnical physical modeling, ground improvement, forensic geotechnical engineering and Lunar Soil Simulant and Moonquake.

Dr. A. Murali Krishna

Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati

Dr. A. Murali Krishna is an Associate Professor of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Tirupati. Before joining IITTP in May 2019, he was a faculty member in Department of Civil Engineering at IIT Guwahati, since 2008. Dr. Murali Krishna obtained doctoral degree from Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, M.Tech degree from IIT Kanpur and B.Tech degree from Sri Venkateswara University College of Engineering, Tirupati. His research interests include: Earthquake Geotechnics, Geosynthetics and Ground Improvement, Site characterization and Numerical and Physical modelling of geotechnical structures. He was a recipient of BRNS Young Scientist Research award, BOYSCAST fellowship and HERTAGE fellowship. He was a visiting fellow at Bristol University(UK), Surrey University (UK) and University de Torino (Italy). He supervised 7 Doctoral students and 24 Masters students; co-authored nearly 180 publications of technical papers in international/national Journals and conference/seminar proceedings, including book chapters. Dr. Murali Krishna is an executive member and life fellow of ISET; Life fellow of Indian Geotechnical Society. He is also a Member of TC 203 of ISSMGE, since 2011.

Prof. Prishati Ray Chowdhury

Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

Dr. Prishati Raychowdhury is an associate professor at the Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. Her primary research area is geotechnical earthquake engineering, soil dynamics, and seismic soil-structure interaction. Her research group consists of a team of enthusiastic and motivated MTech and PhD students. Two of her PhD students and 20 of her MTech students have been graduated under her supervision. She has published more than 50 articles in reputed journals and conference proceedings. She is involved in a number of sponsored research and consultancy projects funded by organizations such as Department of Science and Technology, Department of Atomic Energy, Eastern Railway of India, Archeological Survey of India, Uttar Pradesh Rajya Vidyut Utpadan Nigam Ltd etc. She is the recipient of Sir M. Visvesaraya Research Fellowship, Young Scientist Research Award from DAE, and Young Scientist Fast-track grant from DST.

Prof. R. Ayothiraman

Indian Institute of Technology Delhi

Prof. Sireesh Saride

Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad

Dr. Subhadeep Banerjee

Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

Subhadeep Banerjee is currently serving as the Associate Professor of the Department of Civil Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India. He received his PhD in Civil Engineering from National University of Singapore in 2010. His research interests include seismic soil-foundation interactions, cyclic behaviour of geomaterials and finite element analysis of complex dynamic problems. Besides he is also an expert in constitutive modelling of soils special emphasis to the transient dynamic behaviour. At IIT Madras, he has formed three research groups to study the following attributes, (i) Cyclic characterization of various types natural soils, improved ground, landfills etc., (ii) Development of constitutive models of soils emphasizing on their performance under seismic loadings, and (iii) Application of fundamentals of dynamics to various complex soil structure problems such as, tunneling, base isolation techniques, plate anchors, retaining walls etc.

Dr. Bappaditya Manna

Indian Institute of Technology Delhi

Dr. Bappaditya Manna obtained M.Tech. degree from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur in 2005 and Ph.D. degree from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur in 2009. He is presently working as Associate Professor in Geotechnical Engineering Section at Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India. He has been involved in geotechnical research, consulting and education for more than 10 years. He is the author or co-author of more than 25 scientific papers in reputed journals and 70 papers in conferences. He already guided 05 Nos Ph.D. students and 36 M.Tech. students. He is a member of American Society of Civil Engineers, Deep Foundation Institute, Indian Geotechnical Society and ISSMGE. His research interests are in the area of piles under machine induced vibrations, dynamic response of block foundations, seismic response of unreinforced and reinforced slopes, shallow and deep foundations.

Dr. V.B. Maji

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras

Dr. V.B. Maji, presently working as Associate Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras. He has received his PhD degree from Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore. His teaching and research interest includes Rock mechanics and Geotechnical engineering, numerical modelling. He has more than 12 years of experience in research/teaching and has published more than 50 papers in various international/national journals and conferences. Prior to joining IIT Madras, he worked as Consultant in Advanced Technologies and Engineering Services (ATES), a consultancy division of AIMIL Ltd. New Delhi, India, where he was mainly involved in Geotechnical investigation, analysis and design.

Dr. Pijush Samui

NIT Patna

Pijush Samui is working as an Associate Professor in Civil Engineering Department at NIT Patna, India. He graduated in 2000, with a B.Tech. in Civil Engineering from Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, India. He received his M.Sc. in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India (2004). He holds a Ph.D. in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering (2008) from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. He was a postdoctoral fellow at University of Pittsburgh (USA) (2008-2009) and Tampere University of Technology (Finland) (2009- 2010). In 2010, Dr. Pijush joined in the Center for Disaster Mitigation and Management at VIT University as an Associate Professor. He was promoted to full Professor in 2012. Dr. Pijush is the recipient of the prestigious CIMO fellowship (2009) from Finland, for his integrated research on the design of railway embankment. He was awarded Shamsher Prakash Research Award (2011) by IIT Roorkee for his innovative research on the application of Artificial Intelligence in designing civil engineering structure. He was selected as the recipient of IGS Sardar Resham Singh Memorial Award – 2013 for his innovative research on infrastructure project. He was elected Fellow of International Congress of Disaster Management in 2010. He served as a guest in disaster advance journal. He also serves as an editorial board member in several international journals. He has been selected as an adjunct professor at Ton Duc Thang University (Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam). He has been Visiting Professor at Far East Federal University (Russia).

Dr. Sumanta Haldar

Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar

Dr. Sumanta Haldar is currently Associate Professor in Civil Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar. He obtained his Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He has over 10 years of academic experience in the field of soil mechanics and foundation engineering. He is also having extensive experience in industry. The focus of his research is on offshore geotechnics, soil-structure interaction, geotechnical earthquake engineering and probabilistic geomechanics. He was also visiting professor at Lassonde School of Engineering, York University in 2014. He is the recipient of Prof. Leonard’s best Ph.D. thesis award from the Indian Geotechnical Society, excellent paper award from IACMAG, and IGS–ONGC Biennial Award. He is member of Technical Committee TC-209 on "Offshore Geotechnics" of the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE). He has more than 60 publications in peer reviewed journals, conference papers and book chapters. He is also handling various consultancy and sponsored research projects.

Dr Abhishek Kumar

Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati

Dr Abhishek Kumar is an Associate Professor at the Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati. His research areas include seismic source characterization, forward & inverse ground response analyses, seismic hazard assessment and development of regional ground motion prediction equation. He has published more than 30 Journal papers, 26 conference papers and has guided several students at PhD, Mtechs and Btech levels. Dr Kumar is working with agencies like Department of Science & Technology (DST), Ministry of Earth Sciences and Nuclear Power Corporation of India and is a recipient INSPIRE fellowship from DST, Young Engineer Award 2015 from Indian National Academy of Engineering and Institute of Engineers, India.

Dr. Arindam Dey

Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati

Dr. Arindam Dey is currently an Associate Professor in the Geotechnical Engineering Division, Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati. His research interests include geotechnical earthquake engineering, reinforced soil structures, slope stability and landslides, and geophysical investigation. His current research group includes 8 PhD students and 3 MTech students, and has already supervised 5 PhDs and 20 Mtech students. His research group has published more than 240 technical papers of international and national repute. He is a member of several professional bodies including ISSMGE TC-208 Committee on slope stability and landslides, IGS, TRG, IEI, and FOSET.

Dr. Suresh R Dash

Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar

Dr Dash has over 15 years of research experience (since 2004) in the field of earthquake dynamics and soil-structure interaction. He is presently working as an Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering at IIT Bhubaneswar. He has over 8 years of teaching experience with UG and PG level courses and laboratory classes. Dr. Dash has done his B.Tech in Civil engineering from NIT Rourkela (2003) and Master’s degree from IIT Kanpur in structural engineering (2005). After his master’s study he has worked briefly at IIT Kanpur before joining his PhD at the University of Oxford (2007-2010), with UKIERI scholarship. Major research areas in which Dr. Dash works include seismic analysis, design and retrofitting of buildings and bridges, soil dynamics, pile-soil interaction in liquefiable soils and seismic analysis and design of buried pipelines.

Prof. C.N.V. Satyanarayana Reddy

Organising Chairman – IGC 2020

Prof. Kodi Rangaswamy

NIT Calicut