Local Site Effects and Ground Failures: Select Proceedings of 7th Icragee 2020

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 Vice 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.Dr. Ravi S. Jakka is currently working as Associate Professor in the Department of Earthquake Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee. He is also serving as Secretary, Indian Society of Earthquake Technology. His areas of interest are dynamic site characterization, foundations, soil liquefaction and slope stability. He has published over 90 articles in reputed international journals and conferences. He has supervised 35 Master's dissertations and 6 Ph.D. thesis. He is also currently guiding 9 doctoral students.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 to pursue 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.