Dams, Embankments, Retaining Structures and Case Studies

Dr. Ravi Sankar Jakka is working as a Professor of Soil Dynamics in the Dept. of Earthquake Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, and serving as Editor to ISET Journal of Earthquake Technology & the International Journal of Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering. He obtained master's and doctorate degrees from IIT Delhi in 2003 and 2007 respectively. His areas of interest are Site Characterization, Soil Liquefaction, Seismic Slope Stability of Dams, Foundations & Seismic Hazard Assessment. He has published over 150 articles in reputed international journals and conferences. He has supervised over 50 Masters Dissertations and 10 Ph.D. thesis, while he is currently guiding 9 PhD Thesis. Prof. Jakka has received several prestigious accolades, including the Prof. T.G. Sitharam Mid-career Research Award from the Indian Society of Earthquake Technology (ISET). He was instrumental in the development of Earthquake Early Warning System for northern India, a prestigious national project. He was the Organizing Secretary to the 7th International Conference on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and several other short-term courses/workshops/webinars including IGC2023. He also served as secretary of ISET for two terms.

Dr. Vishwas A Sawant graduated in Civil Engineering in the year 1990 from Mumbai University. Subsequently, he secured Master's and PhD Degrees from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay in the years 1993 and 1998. He worked in the Colleges affiliated to Mumbai University and an Offshore industry till 2003. He worked as a Lecturer at the University of Malaysia Sarawak from June 2003 to June 2006. He worked as a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Edith Cowan University, Perth Australia for six months in 2011. He joined the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee as an Assistant Professor in 2007. He was elevated to Professor in December 2019. He mainly works broadly in the Research Areas of Numerical Modeling in Geomechanics covering the area of Liquefaction mitigation, Piles in sloping ground, Dynamic Analysis of Pavements, Piled-raft Foundations and Granular Anchor Piles. He has completed Six Research Projects in this domain. He has received two Best Paper Awards for his publications in Indian Geotechnical Journal in the year 2000 and 2020. He was the Organizing Secretary to IGC2023 and also served as secretary to ISET.