Biographical note

Prof. T.G. Sitharam is currently the Director of Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India. He is also a KSIIDC Chair Professor in the area of Energy and Mechanical Sciences and Senior Professor at the Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru (IISc). He was the founder Chairman of the Center for Infrastructure, Sustainable Transport and Urban Planning (CiSTUP) at IISc, and is presently the Chairman of the AICTE South Western Zonal Committee, Regional office at Bengaluru and President of the Indian Society for Earthquake Technology (ISET). Prof Sitharam is the founder President of the International Association for Coastal Reservoir Research (IACRR). He has been a  Visiting Professor at Yamaguchi University, Japan; University of Waterloo, Canada; University of Dolhousie, Halifax, Canada;  and ISM Dhanbad, Jharkhand, and was a Research Scientist  at the Center for Earth Sciences and Engineering, University of Texas at Austin,Texas, USA until 1994.
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.
Dr. L. Govindraju is currently Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering (UVCE), Bangalore University, Bangalore. He obtained his Bachelor’s in Civil Engineering from Mysore University, India (1986), Master’s in Geotechnical Engineering from National Institute of Technology Karnataka (NITK), India (1994) and Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from Indian Institute of Science (IISc), India (2005). He was awarded fellowship from National Programme on Earthquake Engineering Education (NPEEE) instituted by the Ministry of Human Resources & Development, Government of India topursue post doctoral research in the area of earthquake engineering at the Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford (UK) from March 2007 to August 2007. He is the member of many professional bodies including IGS, ISTE and ISET. He has published more than 150 technical papers and two books.