Earthquakes and Structures

Prof. Dr. T. G. Sitharam is the Chairman of 7th ICRAGEE, and President of Indian Society for Earthquake Technology. Presently, he is the Director of Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, Assam since July 2019. He is a Senior Professor at Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He is also the Director of Central Institute of Technology, Kokrajhar, Assam (additional charge) since May 2021. He holds Masters in Civil engineering from Indian Institute of Science and Phd from University of Waterloo, Canada and worked for his postdoctoral at University of Texas, USA. He has served as a visiting or honorary/visiting professor at several overseas universities. He has guided 40 Ph.D, more than 35 Masters Students, 20 postdoctoral students and several thousand industry professionals and teachers through continuing education workshops. Over the last 35 years, he has carried out research and development in the area of geotechnical and infrastructureengineering, seismic microzonation & soil dynamics and Geotechnical earthquake engineering leading to about 500 technical papers, 20 books and 5 patents. He has 2 start-up companies and many technological innovations to his credit. Prof Sitharam has recently delivered the IGS annual lecture in IGC 2020 and recipient of several National and International awards. In 2020, He was listed in the world's top 2% of scientists for the most-cited scientists (with more than 6700 citations with an H-index of 46) in various disciplines by Stanford University in 2020. He is the Fellow of American Society of Civil Engineering, Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers (UK), Diplomate of Geotechnical Engineering from Academy of Geoprofessionals, ASCE, USA, and holds many other fellowships to his credit.

Dr. Sreevalsa Kolathayar pursued his M.Tech. from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur, Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and served as International Research Staff at UPC BarcelonaTech Spain. He is presently Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, National Institute of Technology (NIT), Karnataka. Dr. Kolathayar has authored six books and over 75 research articles. He is Associate Editor of two International Journals. His broad research areas are geotechnical earthquake engineering, geosynthetics & geonaturals, and water geotechnics. He is currently the Secretary of the Indian chapter of International Association for Coastal Reservoir Research (IACRR), and Executive Committee Member of Indian Society of Earthquake Technology. In 2017, The New Indian Express honored Dr. Kolathayar with 40 under 40 - South India's Most Inspiring Young Teachers Award. He is the recipient of ISET DK Paul Research Award from Indian Society of Earthquake Technology, IIT Roorkee. He received "IEI Young Engineers Award" by The Institution of Engineers (India), in recognition of his contributions in the field of Civil Engineering. He was recently featured in Geostrata Magazine by American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). Dr Sreevalsa is the Organizing Secretary of 7th International Conference on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering.

Prof. Ravi Jakka is working as Associate Professor in the Department of Earthquake Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee. He is also currently serving as Secretary, Indian Society of Earthquake Technology(ISET). He has graduated in Civil Engineering from Andhra University Engineering College in the year 2001. He has obtained masters and doctorate degrees from IIT Delhi in the years 2003 and 2007 respectively. His areas of interest are Dynamic Site Characterization, Soil Liquefaction, Seismic Slope Stability of Dams, Landslides, Foundations & Seismic Hazard Assessment. He has published over 100 articles in reputed international journals and conferences. He has supervised over 35 Masters Dissertations and 6 Ph.D. thesis, while he is currently guiding 10 PhD Thesis. He has received prestigious DAAD and National Doctoral fellowships. He has obtained University Gold Medal from Andhra University. He also received 'Young Geotechnical Engineer Best Paper Award' from Indian Geotechnical Society. He was instrumental in the development of Earthquake Early Warning System for northern India, a prestigious national project. He is also the Organizing Secretary to 7th International Conference on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering. Recently, he took the responsibilities of the International Journal of Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering as an Editor.