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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.

Title of Talk:The Increasing Role of Surface-Wave Measurements in Site Characterization.

Prof. Charles W W NG

President of the ISSMGE

Professor Charles W. W. Ng is currently the Dean of HKUST Fok Ying Tung Graduate School, CLP Holdings Professor of Sustainability and Chair Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). He is the President of the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (2017-2021). Professor 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. Professor Ng was elected an Overseas Fellow by Churchill College, the University of Cambridge, a Fellow of Royal Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the Hong Kong Academy of Engineering Sciences, and a Changjiang Scholar (Chair Professorship in Geotechnical Engineering). He is also a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers (UK), the American Society of Civil Engineers, and the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers. Currently, he is an Associate Editor of the Canadian Geotechnical Journal.

Title of Talk: Three-Dimensional Centrifuge and Numerical Modelling of Underground Structures Subjected to Normal Faulting.

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 JorjOsterberg Award from the Deep Foundations Institute in 2014.

Title of Talk:Liquefaction-Induced Pile Downdrag from Full-Scale Testing.

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.

Title of Talk: Nonlinear Soil-Structure-Interaction and Applications for Bridge Systems in Liquefiable Ground.

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:

Title of Talk: Liquefaction Mitigation Measures: A Historical Review.

Prof. Amir M. Kaynia

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.

Title of Talk: High Speed Trains with Different Tracks on Layered Ground and Measures to Increase Critical Speed

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 SwarupBhatnagar Prize, one of the highest Indian Science Awards in 2002

Title of Talk: Regional-Local Hybrid Seismic Hazard and Disaster Modeling of the Five Tectonic Province Ensemble consisting of Westcentral Himalaya to Northeast India

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.

Title of Talk: Single-Frequency Method for Computing Seismic Earth Pressures

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).

Title of Talk: Recent Advances in Modelling of Soil-Structure Interaction Problems

Dr. I.D. Gupta

Ex-Director Central Water And Power Research Station

Dr. Gupta was a former Director, CWPRS. He is an internationally recognized expert in the areas of Earthquake Engineering and Engineering seismology with over 40 years of professional and research experience. Dr. Gupta Obtained M.Sc. in Physics from University of Delhi in 1977, M.S. in Earthquake Engineering from University of Southern California, in 1985, and Ph.D. from University of Pune in 1987 on his thesis ‘Risk Based Seismic Response Analysis of Structures – A Stochastic Approach’. His major areas of expertise includes strong motion seismology, probabilistic seismic hazard analysis, dynamic response analysis of gravity dams, seismic surveillance of river valley projects, and reservoir triggered seismicity. He has published over 140 research papers, guided 9 Ph.D. dissertations, and prepared more than 150 project specific study reports in the areas of expertise. He is member of National Committee on Seismic Design Parameters (NCSDP) and Earthquake Engineering Sectional Committee CED-39 of BIS, Expert Groups setup by AERB Mumba.


Title of Talk: Empirical Predictions of Fourier Amplitude and Phase Spectra Including Local Site Effects for Simulation of Design Accelerograms in Western Himalayan Region

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.

Title of Talk: Seismic Hazard Analyses for Critical Facilities

SoAP LECTURES


Prof. Ronald D. Andrus

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

Title of Talk: Assessing the Effect of Aging on Soil Liquefaction Resistance

Prof. Hemanta Hazarika

Kyushu University

Hemanta Hazarika is currently a professor in the Graduate School of Engineering and Department of Interdisciplinary Science and Innovation, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan. He obtained his Bachelor of Technology (B. Tech) degree in Civil Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras, India in 1990. He obtained his master degree in Geotechnical Engineering in 1993 from Nagoya University, Japan and Ph. D. from the same university in 1996. Currently he is also adjunct professor of IIT Madras, India.
Professor Hazarika’s research activities include disaster prevention and mitigation, soil-structure interaction, stability of soil-structures during earthquakes and tsunami, ground improvement, application of recycled waste and lightweight materials in constructions, stability of cut slopes, and landslides and their protection.


Title of Talk: Forensic Evaluation of long-distance flow in gently sloped ground during the 2018 Sulawesi Earthquake, Indonesia

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).

Title of Talk: Uncertainties in Small-Strain Damping Ratio Evaluation and Their Influence on Seismic Ground Response Analyses

Prof. Subhamoy Bhattacharya

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).

Title of Talk: Challenges in the design and construction of offshore wind turbine foundations in seismic areas

Prof. Gang Wang

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Prof. Gang Wang is 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 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 70 research papers in reputable SCI journals, and currently serves as Associate Editor of Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, 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.

Title of Talk: Large Deformation Analysis of Coseismic Landslide using Material Point Method

Prof. Brady R. Cox

Utah State University

Prof. Cox is a Professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at Utah State University (USU). Prior to joining USU, he served on the faculty of The University of Texas for eight years and The University of Arkansas for six years. Dr. Cox specializes in geotechnical engineering, with emphasis on issues related to seismic design and in-situ site characterization for major construction projects. His research efforts combine experimental field testing with computational analyses and high-performance computing for subsurface imaging purposes. He has led teams deployed to collect seismic site characterization data at ground motion recording stations, soil liquefaction sites, and structural failures following significant earthquakes in the U.S. and around the world (e.g., Ecuador, Haiti, Japan, New Zealand, Peru, Turkey). He has also participated in numerous dynamic site characterization projects for the seismic design of critical facilities (e.g., nuclear power plants, U.S. DOE laboratory sites, bridges, tunnels) in the U.S. and abroad. Dr. Cox is a recipient of the prestigious Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award from the U.S. National Science Foundation and the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientist and Engineers (PECASE), which he received in a ceremony at the White House from President Barack Obama. He has authored over 100 peer-reviewed publications and has taught eight different courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels at three different universities. He grew up the son of a tough and hard-working coal miner in Helper, Utah. His personal life is influenced by five important women (his wife and four daughters). He loves all outdoor activities, and currently spends quite a bit of time training for endurance sports, having recently completed an Ironman Triathlon and 50-mile ultra-marathon.

Title of Talk: An H/V Geostatistical Approach to Account for Spatial Variability in 1D Seismic Site Response

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.

Title of Talk: Cyclic Resistance and Large Deformation Characteristics of Sands Under Sloping Ground Conditions: Insights from Large-Strain Torsional Simple Shear Tests

Prof. Gian Paolo Cimellaro

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. www.cimellaro.org.

Title of Talk:Civil Engineering Approach to Alleviate and Manage Resilience against Natural Disasters in Developing Countries

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.



Title of Talk:Numerical Simulation of Coir Geotextile Reinforced Soil under Cyclic Loading

Dr. Md. Mizanur Rahman

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).

Title of Talk: State-of-the-art development of equivalent state theory for liquefaction assessment of silty sand

INDIAN SoAP SPEAKERS


Prof. K.S. Rao

Emeritus Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi



Title of Talk: Seismic Aspects/hazard-assessment for Tunneling

Prof. G.L. Sivakumar Babu

Indian Institute of Science Bangalore



Title of Talk: Framework for Multi-hazard assessment in landslides

Dr. O.P. Mishra

Head, Seismological Division, Ministry of Earth Sciences



Title of Talk:Seismic Microzonation of cities in India: A way forward for Earthquake Risk resilient structures

Dr. K.G. Bhatia

CEO,Development Center forAppliedDynamics(D-CAD) Technologies

Dr. K. G. Bhatia, after obtaining Bachelors Degree in Civil Engineering from IIT-BHU, completed Masters in Structural Dynamics with specialization in Earthquake Engineering from IIT-Roorkee and thereafter joined International Institute of Seismology & Earthquake Engineering (IISEE), Tokyo, Japan under UNESCO for advanced research. The research work was further extended for award of PhD from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. He switched over to industry in 1971 and after serving Engineers India Ltd (EIL), a pioneering Consultancy Organization, he moved to power giant Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) where he was Head of Structural Dynamics for many years. He has about three decades of rich experience in design, testing and failure analysis of Machine Foundations, Seismic Qualification of Power Plant Equipment as well as Stress & Vibration Analysis of Structures and Equipment. He has been engaged in design, testing and review of machine foundations for various industrial projects viz. Petrochemicals, Refineries, Power plants etc. for over three decades. He has been associated with Failure Analysis Studies on various types of machines for over two decades and has conducted extensive tests on machine foundation models as well as on prototypes.He has authored a book "Foundations for Industrial Machines - Handbook for Practising Engineers".

Title of Talk: Capacity Upgradation of Industrial Machines on existing Foundations – a State of the Art

Prof. A. Boominathan

Indian Institute of Technology Madras

Dr. A. Boominathan is currently working as a Professor in the Geotechnical division of the Civil Engineering Department, IIT Madras. He has received his Doctorate from Moscow Civil Engineering Institute, Moscow. Prior to that, he did his Pre-doctorate and M.Sc. (Engg.) at Russian University, Moscow. He has more than 30 years of experience in research and teaching. His publications include 59 papers in International/National Journals, 117 conference proceedings in International and National Conferences, and 14 book chapters. He is a member of the International Society of Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering (ISSMFE), International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics (IACMAG), and Deep Foundation Institute (DFI) India. He is a Fellow in the Indian Geotechnical Society and an Associate Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). He is also a Life Member of the Indian Society of Earthquake Technology and Indian Society of Rock Mechanics and Tunneling Technology.

Title of Talk: Numerical Modelling of Basin Effects on Earthquake Ground Motion in the Kutch Basin

Prof. G.V. Ramana

Indian Institute of Technology Delhi



Title of Talk:Ground Improvement Against Liquefaction below a Large ECRF Dam

Prof. Gali Madhavi Latha

Indian Institute of Science

MadhaviLatha 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.MadhaviLatha is the primary geotechnical consultant for the world's 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.

Title of Talk: Geosynthetics in Retaining Walls Subjected to Seismic Shaking

Prof. Deepankar Choudhury

Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

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.

Title of Talk: Controlled ground-borne vibrations for design of substructural systems - theory and practice

Dr. BK Rastogi



Title of Talk:Geotechnical, Geological and Geophysical Investigations for Seismic Microzonation and Site-Specific Earthquake Hazard Analysis in Gujarat

Prof. B.V.S. Viswanadham

Indian Institute of Technology Bombay



Title of Talk: Studies on Modelling of Dynamic Compaction in a Geocentrifuge

Prof.Chandan Gosh

National Institute of Disaster Management



Title of Talk: Reconstitution of liquefaction susceptibility in soils

Prof. Bal Krishna Maheshwari

Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee



Title of Talk:A State of Art: Seismic Soil-Structure Interaction for Nuclear Power Plants

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. <

Title of Talk:Deformation Modulus Characteristics of Cyclically Loaded Granular Earth Bed for High Speed Trains

Dr. B.K. Bansal

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



Title of Talk:Mitigation of Seismic hazard through Science and Technology Interventions: The Indian scenario

Prof. G.R. Dodagoudar

Indian Institute of Technology Madras

Dr. G.R. Dodagoudaris a professor at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai since 2002. He obtained M.Tech. degree in Geotechnical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai in 1995 and Doctoral degree also from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai with specialization in Geotechnical Engineering in 2001. He has one year of experience in the industry and eighteen years of experience in Research and Teaching. He has guided 17 Ph.D. Students, 7 M.S students and 20 M.Tech students so far and is presently guiding 9 Ph.D. students and one M.S student. He has published 59 papers in international journals and 42 papers in national journals and has presented more than 120 papers in proceedings of conferences. He has written one 'book' and two monographs. He is very active in continuing education programs, and delivers lectures and motivating talks to students, academicians, and working professionals across the country.

Title of Talk:Seismic performance analysis of bridge pier on rocking shallow foundation using RSM

Prof. Nihar Ranjan Patra

Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur



Title of Talk:Response Analysis of Pond Ash Embankments Located in SeismicZone II, III and IV, India: A Comparative Study

Prof. Amit Prashant

Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar



Title of Talk:Computing Seismic Displacements of Cantilever Retaining Wall using Double Wedge Model

Dr. A. Murali Krishna

Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati

Prof. A. Murali Krishna is a 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. Prof.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.



Title of Talk:Seismic Analysis of Pile Foundations Using an Integrated Approach

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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

Title of Talk: Seismic Stability of Slopes Reinforced with Micropiles - A Numerical Study

Dr. K. Muthukkumaran

National Institute of Technology 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 modelling, ground improvement, forensic geotechnical engineering and Lunar Soil Simulant and Moonquake.



Title of Talk:Dynamic Characterization of Lunar Soil Simulant (LSS-ISAC-1) for Moonquake Analysis

Prof. Vishwas A. Sawant

Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee





Title of Talk:Numerical Modelling of Liquefaction

Dr. P. Anbazhagan

Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

Prof.AnbazhaganPanjamani 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).

Title of Talk: Region Specific Consideration for GMPE Development and Selection for Representative Seismic Hazard Estimation

Prof. R. Ayothiraman

Indian Institute of Technology Delhi



Title of Talk: Tunnel-Foundation Interaction in Urban Areas under Earthquake Load

Prof. Prishati Ray Chowdhury

Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

Dr.Prishati Ray Chowdhury 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 RajyaVidyutUtpadan 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.

Title of Talk: Dynamic Analysis of Railway Track Systems

Prof.Neelima Satyam

Indian Institute of Technology Indore



Title of Talk: Forecasting Rainfall Induced Landslides using Empirical Relations: Case Studies from Western Ghats

Prof. Ashish Juneja

Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

Prof. Ashish Juneja is a Professor in the department of civil engineering at IIT Bombay and I teach and research in the area of geotechnical engineering. Although I am experimentalist at heart, I do have special liking for numerical methods to solve complex problems. Of lately, my research group has started the use of DEM tools for the study of fractured rock and granular material behaviour. Please visit my students' page under Research Guidance to give you a glimpse of the areas I work. I am a nominated member of TC104 (Physical modelling in geotechnics) and TC204 (Underground construction) and have organised a few training programmes and workshops at the institute. I have served as a consultant to agencies such as Indian Railways, NHSRCL, NPCIL, Mumbai Metro and Nagpur Metro, BMC, Samsung Engineering, Jan De Nul and John Deer. The project for Konkan Railways resulted in me being awarded the 2014 IIT Bombay Industrial Impact Award. I have been teaching core subjects in geotechnical engineering at undergraduate level, and on constitutive models and ground improvement at postgraduate level. Some of my courses have been transmitted live through ISRO's satellite to remote centres and other engineering colleges across the country. I have twice received the Excellence in Teaching award, the first time in 2012 and the second time in 2016, besides best paper awards by IGS and other geotechnical agencies.

Title of Talk: Disturbance in Soil Structure Due to Post-Cyclic Recompression

Prof. Sireesh Saride

Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad



Title of Talk:Resilient Behaviour of Stabilized Reclaimed Bases

Prof. C.N.V. Satyanarayana Reddy

Andhra University



Title of Talk:Effect of Shape of Footing on Coefficient of Elastic Uniform Compression of Foundation Materials

Dr. Pijush Samui

National Institute of Technology Patna

PijushSamui 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 SardarResham 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).

Title of Talk: Application of Soft Computing in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering

Dr. Sumanta Haldar

Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar

Dr.SumantaHaldar 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.

Title of Talk: Dynamic Response of Monopile Supported Offshore Wind Turbine on Liquefied Soil

Dr. Arindam Dey

Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati

Dr.ArindamDey 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.

Title of Talk: Nonlinear Ground Response Analysis: A Case Study of Amingaon, North Guwahati, Assam

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.

Title of Talk: Seismic Response of Concrete Gravity Dam-Foundation System for Rock Foundation with Shear Zone

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.

Title of Talk: Importance of Site-Specific Observations at Various Stages of Seismic Microzonation Practises

Prof. Kodi Rangaswamy

National Institute of Technology Calicut



Title of Talk: Influence of Bio and Nano Materials on Dynamic Characterisation of Soils