Prof. Deepankar Choudhury
Present Designation:
Prof. T. Kant Chair Professor (HAG) and 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.
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Professional Experience
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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
https://www.civil.iitb.ac.in/~dc/INAE Section Affiliated
I: Civil Engineering
Year of Election to Fellowship
2023
Year of Birth
1974
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