Prof. Deepankar Choudhury
Present Designation:
Prof. T. Kant Chair Professor (HAG) and former Head, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT BombayAreas of Interest:
1. Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering (Applied to retaining wall, reinforced soil-wall, waterfront structures, slope, foundation, pile, anchor, characterization of waste materials, design of MSW landfills, site characterization, liquefaction, GIS-GPS based hazard map, combined pile-raft foundation etc.).
2. Foundation Engineering, Dynamic Soil-Structure Interaction problems (foundations under blast load, cyclic load, rail load etc.), Computational Geomechanics, Soil Dynamics.
3. Numerical & analytical modeling with innovative sustainable design for retaining wall, anchor, slope, shallow foundations and deep (pile) foundations, combined-pile raft foundation (CPRF).
4. Disaster management, seismic hazard, risk analysis.
5. Railway Geotechnics, Swell-shrink behaviour of expansive soil.
Specialisation:
Civil Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering, Foundation Engineering, Computational Geomechanics, Soil Dynamics, Soil-Structure Interaction, Disaster Management, Railway Geotechnics.
Major Professional Contributions:
Consultancy Areas:
Civil Geotechnical Engineering,
Earthquake Engineering,
Foundation Engineering,
Computational Geomechanics,
Soil Dynamics,
Soil-Structure Interaction,
Disaster Management,
Railway Geotechnics.
Sector Associated With:
Sectors Interested to Offer Service:
Professional Experience
Prof. Tarun Kant Chair Professor (HAG), IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India (March 2021 - till date).
National Nodal Coordinator for Board-01 (Civil Engg.) of Prime Minister Research Fellowship (PMRF) PhD program, MoE, India (April 2023 - till date).
Chairman of Technical Committee TAC on Disaster Resilience & Capacity Building and Member SDMA, Government of Maharashtra, India (Jan 2023 - till date).
Head, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India (March 2021 - June 2024).
National Organising Chairperson of GATE 2021, India (June 2020 - May 2021).
Zonal Chairperson of GATE 2020 and JAM 2020, India (June 2019 - May 2020).
Institute Chair Professor, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India (Oct 2017 - Oct 2020).
Professor, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India (June 2012 - till date).
Adjunct Professor, AcSIR, with CSIR-CBRI Roorkee, India (Jan 2013 - Jan 2020).
Visiting Professor, Incheon National University, South Korea (May - June, 2017).
National Organising Vice-Chairman of IIT - JEE(Advanced) 2015, India (August 2014 - Sept 2015). Founding Member of JoSAA-2015.
Visiting (Guest) Professor, TU Darmstadt, Germany (June - July 2013, May - July 2014).
Humboldt Fellow (Senior category), TU Darmstadt, Germany (2010 - 2012).
JSPS Fellow, Kagoshima University, Japan (May-July, 2009).
BOYSCAST Fellow, UC Berkeley, CA, USA (April-Oct, 2006).
Visiting Fellow, University of Wollongong, Australia (May-June, 2005).
Visiting Scientist, NUS, Singapore (May-July, 2004).
Associate Professor, IIT Gandhinagar, India (January-April, 2009).
Assistant Professor, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India (July 2003-Mar 2007).
Lecturer, IIT Kanpur, India (Nov 2002-June 2003).
Design Engineer, DCL, Kolkata, India (July 1997-July 1998).
Keywords
Education
Ph.D., Civil Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India, 2002
M.E., Civil Geotechnical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India, 2000
B.E., Civil Engineering, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India, 1997
Awards and Recognitions
(1) Fellow (FASc) of IASc, Bangalore; Fellow (FNAE) of INAE, New Delhi; Fellow (FANSc) of NASI, Prayagraj; Fellow (F.ASCE) of ASCE, USA; Fellow (FIE) of IEI, India; Fellow (FAScT) of WAST, India.
(2) ISCA Young Scientist Award-2005; INSA Young Scientist Award-2005; INAE Young Engineer Award-2006; NASI Platinum Jubilee Young Scientist Award-2007; IEI Young Engineer Award-2008.
(3) Prof. S. P. Sukhatme Excellence in Teaching Award-2017 of IIT Bombay; Best Geotechnical Engineering Teacher Award-2023 of Indian Geotechnical Society (IGS), New Delhi.
(4) Gopal Ranjan Technology Award-2022 and Shamsher Prakash Research Award-2008 of IIT Roorkee.
(5) Humboldt Fellow (experienced category) of Germany; JSPS Fellow of Japan; BOYSCAST Fellow of DST, India; TWAS-VS Fellow of Italy.
Link to Website
Official website: https://www.civil.iitb.ac.in/~dc/ Lab website: https://geelabiitb.wixsite.com/geelINAE Section Affiliated
I: Civil Engineering
Year of Election to Fellowship
2023
Year of Birth
1974
Disclaimer
(i) INAE is not responsible for any activity/interactions that results from the contact with the Expert.
(ii) Information in individual Expert page has been provided by the Expert himself/herself and INAE is not responsible for the information provided
