Conferences/ Seminars/Symposiums/Workshops/Courses Organized
1. Member of IGS Finance Sub Committee, Indian Geotechnical Society Main Body, 2020 – till now. 2. Co-Chairman and Treasurer, Indian Geotechnical Society Delhi Chapter, Organized more than 50 technical events on geotechnical engineering, 2014 to till date. 3. Organizing Member, Demonstration Session and Workshop on Environmental Subsurface Investigations, Geoenvironment 2020, 17- 21 Feb 2020, IIT Delhi. 4. Member of Organizing Committee of the “International Symposium on Geotechnics of Transportation Infrastructure (ISGTI 2018)” at IIT Delhi, New Delhi on April 07-08, 2018. 5. Co-ordinator of the NHPC Sponsored CEP Short term course on “Seismic Aspects of Dam Design”, jointly with Prof. J. T. Shahu, January 17-19, 2020. 6. Co-ordinator of the NHPC Sponsored CEP Short Term Course on “Slope Stability and Stabilization Techniques for HE Projects” jointly with Prof. J. T. Shahu, November 21-23, 2016. 7. Member of Organizing Committee of the “Geotechnology 2030: Future Vision Conference”, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, March, 2015. 8. Member of Organizing Committee (Registration and Delegate Interaction) of the Conference on “Deep Foundation Technologies for Infrastructure Development in India, DFI 2014”, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, September 18 - 20, 2014. 9. Member of Organizing Committee (Registration Committee) of the “Structural Engineering Convention 2014”, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, December 22 – 24, 2014. 10. Member of Organizing Committee (Registration/Delegate Interaction Committee) of the “Indian Geotechnical Conference 2012, (IGC 2012)”, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, December 13 - 15, 2012. 11. One week QIP-CEP (Quality Improvement Programme-Continuing Education Programme) short-term course on “Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering- Principles and Practices”, Coordinators: Dr. Bappaditya Manna and Dr. Tanusree Chakraborty, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India, May 21 - 25, 2012. 12. Member of Organizing Committee, “Third Indian Young Geotechnical Engineers Conference (3IYGEC)”, CSIR-Central Road Research Institute (CRRI), New Delhi, March 25 – 26, 2011. 13. Organised a one day Workshop on “Machine Foundations” by Dr. K. G. Bhatia, Civil Engineering Society (CES), Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, January 08, 2011. 14. Member of Organizing Committee, “National Conference on Advances in Environmental Engineering (AEE–09)”, National Institute of Technology Rourkela, November 14 - 15, 2009. 15. Member of Training Program, “National Programme for Capacity Building of Engineers in Earthquake Risk Management (NPCBEERM)” sponsored by National Institute of Disaster Management, New Delhi, Orissa State Disaster Management Authority, Bhubaneswar, Department of Civil Engineering, NIT Rourkela, 17 – 26 August, 2009. 16. Participated in the Four Week Course on the “Training of Faculty Members of State Resource Institutes under the National Program for Capacity Building of Engineers in Earthquake Risk Management (NPCBEERM)”, A Ministry of Home Affairs (Disaster Management), Govt. of India Initiative, Offered by Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, June 08 – July 05, 2009.
Lectures Delivered In Conferences/Seminars/Workshops/Courses
1. Deliver online invited lecture on “Design of Concrete Gravity Dam on Rock Foundation System - Geotechnical Challenges”, for the course CE648: Applied Soil Mechanics, Course Coordinator: Dr. Arindam Dey, at Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati on 13-08-2021. 2. Deliver online special lecture on “Seismic Performance Evaluation of Concrete Gravity Dam on Rock Foundation System with Shear Zone”, The 7th International Conference on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics (ICRAGEE), Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India, 12 – 15 July, 2021. 3. Deliver online lecture on “Analysis and Design of Pile Foundations: A Geotechnical Perspective”, Developments in Structural Dynamics & Soil-Structure Interaction (DSD&SSI-2020), Sponsored by TEQIP – III, In Association with IIC, NIT Silchar, September 11-15, 2020. 4. Deliver lecture on “Stability Analysis of Unreinforced and Geosynthetic Reinforced Soil Slopes”, Second ASCE India Conference on “Challenges of Resilient and Sustainable Infrastructure Development in Emerging Economies” (CRSIDE2020), 2-4 March, 2020, Kolkata. 5. Deliver keynote lecture on "Dynamic Response of Pile Foundations under Machine induced Vibrations", 7th Indian Young Geotechnical Engineers Conference 2019, March 15-16, 2019, NIT Silchar. 6. Deliver lecture on “Prediction of Ground Vibration Due to Railway Traffic in MRTS Underground Cut and Cover Tunnels”, 7th International Conference on Computational Methods in Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering (COMPDYN 2019), June 24-26, 2019, Crete, Greece. 7. Deliver guest lecture on "Geotechnical Engineering- Case Study and Applications" on 04 April 2019, at Department of Civil Engineering, Bennett university, Noida. 8. Deliver lecture on “Finite Element Modelling of Piled Raft in Sand under Earthquake Load”, 7th Indian Young Geotechnical Engineers Conference 2019, March 15-16, 2019, NIT Silchar. 9. Presentation on “Response of Single Batter Pile under Vertical Vibrations”, 7th International Conference on Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering (7ICEGE 2019), June 17-20, 2019, Roma, Italy. 10. Deliver lecture on “Dynamic Response of Embedded Block Foundation under Vertical Vibration”, China - Europe Conference on Geotechnical Engineering, August 13-16, 2018, Vienna, Austria. 11. Deliver lecture on “Pile Foundations in Engineering Practice”, QIP Short Term Course, organized by Department of Civil Engineering, Delhi Technological University, 2016. 12. Deliver keynote lecture on “Response of Pile Foundations under Machine Induced Vibrations”, National Conference on Advances in Geotechnical Engineering (AGE-2016) April 08-09, 2016, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh. 13. Deliver lecture on “Dynamic Nonlinear Response of Full-Scale Single Pile under Rotating Machine Induced Vibrations”, Deep Foundation Technologies for Infrastructure Development of India 2014, Deep Foundations Institute (DFI), September 19 - 20, 2014, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. 14. Session Chair and deliver lecture on “Dynamic Response of Block Foundation Resting on Soil-Rock and Rock-Rock System under Coupled Vibration”, Structural Engineering Convention 2014, December 22 – 24, 2014, IIT Delhi, India. 15. Lecture on “Three Dimensional Finite Element Nonlinear Dynamic Analysis of Full-Scale Piles under Vertical Excitations”, 18th International Conference for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Paris, France, September 2-5, 2013. 16. Deliver lecture on “The Effect of Soil-Pile Separation and Boundary Zone Parameters on the Nonlinear Dynamic Response of Pile Foundations”, Institut für Geotechnik, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany, June 2012. 17. Deliver lecture on “Nonlinear Response of Pile Foundations under Horizontal Excitation Acting at Different Location of Pile Cap-Loading System”, 3rd Indian Young Geotechnical Engineers Conference (3IYGEC), March 25-27, 2011, New Delhi. 18. Deliver lecture on “Prediction of the Soil-Pile Separation under Coupled Vibration”, Indian Geotechnical Conference 2011, Geochallenges, Kochi, Kerala, Dec 15-17, 2011. 19. Deliver lecture on “Foundations for Industrial Machines” for the National Programme for Capacity Building of Engineers in Earthquake Risk Management (NPCBEERM) sponsored by National Institute of Disaster Management, New Delhi, Orissa State Disaster Management Authority, Bhubaneswar, Department of Civil Engineering, NIT Rourkela, 17 – 26 August, 2009. 20. Deliver lecture on “Vertical Vibration of a Full-Scale Single Bored Pile”, 13th Asian Regional Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Kolkata, 10-14 December 2007. 21. Deliver lecture on “Determination of Capacity of Pile Group using Lagre Triaxial Cell”, International Conference on Civil Engineering in the New Millennium: Opportunities and Challenges, Bengal Engineering and Science University, Shibpur, 11-14th January, 2007.
Session Chair/Co-Chair in Conferences & Seminars
1. Chairman, Online Workshop on Geotechnical Engineering Challenges organized by Indian Geotechnical Society Delhi Chapter, November 10, 2021. 2. Chairman, Technical Session of Online Workshop on CFA Piles – Theory, Prospects & Applications in India organized by Deep Foundation Institute (DFI) of India, 17th March 2021. 3. Chairman, Online Workshop on Geotechnical Engineering Challenges organized by Indian Geotechnical Society Delhi Chapter, December 23, 2020. 4. Chairman, Technical Session, International Seminar on Contaminated Sites, Geoenvironment 2020, 17- 19 Feb 2020, IIT Delhi. 5. Chairman, Workshop on Geotechnical Engineering Practice - Case studies organized by Indian Geotechnical Society Delhi Chapter, September 24, 2019. 6. Chairman, Technical Session, 7th International Conference on Computational Methods in Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering (COMPDYN 2019), June 24-26, 2019, Crete, Greece. 7. Co-Chairman, Technical Session, Structural Engineering Convention 2014, Sept 19-20, 2014, IIT Delhi. 8. Co-Chairman, Technical Session, Deep Foundation Technologies for Infrastructure Development in India, DFI 2014”, IIT Delhi, New Delhi, September 18 - 20, 2014. 9. Co-Chairman, Technical Session, Indian Geotechnical Conference 2012, New Delhi.
Member of Technical Committees
1. Member to represent Indian Geotechnical Society (IGS) on the International Technical Committee TC-208 on "Slope Stability in Engineering Practice" of the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE) for the term 2018-2021. 2. IGS members on the Panel of CED 43:P8 committee for the preparation of Drafts for Revision for Part 5 of IS 2974 “Vibration Isolation System for Block and Frame Foundations”. 3. Members of working group on the development of Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) guideline of CED-39: “Seismic Design of Pipelines”. 4. Members of Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) Technical Committee, TXD 30” “Geosynthetics”, formulated by Geo-synthetics Sectional Committee.
Advisory/Technical Member For Conference
1. Member of the Advisory Committee of Indian Geotechnical Conference (IGC) – 2022, Kochi. 2. Advisory Committee Member, National Conference on Sustainable Development and Circular Economy in Civil Engineering (SDCE) to be organised by department of Civil Engineering, Heritage Institute of Technology, Kolkata to be held from 16 – 17 December, 2021.
Reviewer of Journals and Conferences
Journals: 1. Canadian Geotechnical Journal, Canadian Science Publishing 2. Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, Elsevier 3. Journal of Engineering Mechanics, ASCE 4. Acta Geotechnica, Springer 5. Internation Journal of Geomechanics, ASCE 6. Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Vibration, Springer 7. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, MDPI 8. Geosciences, MDPI 9. KSCE Journal of Civil Engineering, Springer 10. Earthquakes and Structures, An International Journal, Techno-Press 11. Acta Geodaetica et Geophysica, Springer 12. Geotechnical and Geological Engineering, Springer 13. Ocean Engineering - An International Journal of Research and Development, Elsevier 14. Geotechnical Engineering Journal, SEAGS 15. European Journal of Environmental and Civil Engineering, Taylor & Francis 16. International Journal of Geosynthetics and Ground Engineering, Springer 17. Sadhana, Springer 18. Indian Geotechnical Journal, Springer 19. Structural Engineering and Mechanics, An International Journal, Techno-Press 20. Geomechanics and Geoengineering – An International Journal, Taylor & Francis 21. Innovative Infrastructure Solutions (IISS), Springer 22. Journal of The Institution of Engineers (India): Series A, Springer 23. Journal of Earthquake Technology, ISET 24. Geotechnical Special Publications (Geo-Congress), ASCE	Conferences: 1. Manuscript and Keynote Volume II, 7th International Conference on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering (7ICRAGEE), 2021. 2. 7th International Conference on Structure, Engineering and Environment, SEE-Pattaya 2021, Thailand. 3. First Indian Symposium on Offshore Geotechnics, ISOG-2019 (An International Symposium) 4. Indian Geotechnical Conferences (IGC), 2012-2021. 5. Indian Young Geotechnical Engineering Conferences (IYGEC), 2019, 2021. 6. Conference on Deep Foundation Technologies for Infrastructure Development in India, 2014 (DFI 2014) 7. Structural Engineering Convention 2014 (SEC 2014) 8. International Conference on Developments in Road Transportation (DRT 2010).
Reviewer of Thesis, Project Proposal and Technical Reports
1. Thesis evaluation and viva-voce examination of Ph.D. thesis on “Analysis of Stiffened Granular Pile with Raft” by Ms. Raksha Rani Sanadhya, Department of Civil Engineering, Rajasthan Technical University, Kota, January 2021. 2. Thesis evaluation and viva-voce examination of Ph.D. thesis on “Response of Isolated and Interefering Shallow Footings on Slopes” by Mr. Rana Acharyya", Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, January 2019. 3. External Examiner, Major Project Evaluation and Viva-Voce Examination for the Master of Technology (M.Tech.) Students at Delhi Technological University, 2016, 2017, 2018. 4. External Examiner, evaluation of M.Tech. (Res) Thesis of Ms. Sujata Priyadarshini at National Institute of Technology Rourkela 2015. 5. Reviewer of NPTL Phase-II Web Course on “Foundation Analysis and Design”, IIT Kanpur, 2014.
Expert/Member/Advisor on Selection/Assessment/Evaluation Panel
1. Expert Member for review of the papers for the selection of "IGS-AIMIL-HCV YGE Award - 2021” for the Best Paper on "Geotechnical Investigation and Testing". 2. Nominated Experts of the “Award Committee 2021” constituted on behalf of Indian Geotechnical Society, Delhi Chapter. 3. Expert Member for review of the papers for the selection of the best paper on “Instrumentation” for the “IGS-AIMIL Biennial Award - 2020”. 4. Nominated Experts of the “Award Committee 2020” constituted on behalf of Indian Geotechnical Society, Delhi Chapter.
Membership of Professional Societies
1. Member, American Society of Civil Engineers (M.ASCE, Membership ID: 416084). 2. Deep Foundations Institute, USA (DFI Member ID: 15205). 3. Indian Geotechnical Society (Life Member, Membership ID: LM 2595). 4. International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE Membership No: IND110102). 5. Institution of Engineers (Member, M-145110-8). 6. Indian Society of Earthquake Technology (Life Member, LM 1524). 7. Indian Society for Rock Mechanics and Tunneling Technology, ISRMTT (Life Member). 8. The Indian Science Congress Association (Life Member, L19340). 9. The Indian Road Congress (Life Member, LM-38737). 10. Indian Geotechnical Society, Delhi Chapter (Life Member). 11. The Indian Society for Technical Education (Life Member, LM 81151).
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