Proceedings of International Conference on Advances in Structural and Geotechnical Engineering (ASAGE 2025) - Volume 2 Vol. 2 – Geotechnical Engineering

Dr. Arvind Kumar Jha is currently working as an associate professor at Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Patna, India. Prior to that Dr. Jha has served as an associate professor at Department of Civil Engineering, Manipal University Jaipur, India. He has completed his M.Sc. (Engg.) from TU Nepal and Ph.D. from IISc Bangalore, India in Geotechnical Engineering. His research interest includes in the areas of Ground Improvement, Biogeotechnic, Geoenvironmental Engineering and Rock Mechanics. Dr. Jha has established Biogeotechics Laboratory at IIT Patna where many his Ph.D. students and PG students are perusing their research works. Dr. Jha is recipient of the prestigious STARS-IISc-DST project in the field of Biogeotechnics and Geoenvironmental Engineering. Further, he is continuously involved in many prestigious national importance projects.

Prof. T. N. Singh is presently the director of Indian Institute of Technology Patna. Prior to IIT Patna, Prof. Singh was a vice-chancellor of Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidhyapith, Varanasi from 2018 to 2021. He was also a vice-chancellor of VBS, Purvanchal University for short period in 2020. Prior to that Prof. Singh has served as independent Director of Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited and Board of Governing body member of IIT Kanpur. Presently, he is the member of Board of Governing body NIT Jamshedpur, NIT Patna, IIIT Bhagalpur and IIPE Visakhapatnam. Prof. Singh has published more than 400 journals papers and 160 conference proceeding. He has also published more than dozen edited books published from Springer, Elsevier etc.

Dr. Vaibhav Singhal is an associate professor and former head of the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Patna, Patna. He obtained his Diploma (Honors) and B.Tech. (Honors) in Civil Engineering from Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, and Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur. His major areas of research interests include design and behavior of structures under earthquake loads, experimental investigations, seismic rehabilitation, masonry structures and seismic design codes. He has published over 90 peer-reviewed papers in journals and conferences in the area of structural and earthquake engineering. Dr. Singhal is a recipient of prestigious SERB International Research Experience (SIRE) fellowship from Government of India. He received the INAE Innovative Projects Awards for the doctoral research work from the Indian National Academy of Engineering in 2015, and among others.

Hemant B. Kaushik is a professor in the Department of Civil Engineering and Centre for Disaster Management and Research at IIT Guwahati. He is also an associate dean of Academic Affairs for Online Programs at IIT Guwahati. Dr. Kaushik is a Structural Engineer and has research interests in earthquake-resistant design, nonlinear behavior, seismic retrofitting, large-scale testing, vernacular housing typologies, and earthquake damage surveys. His notable works include studying the lateral load responses of unreinforced masonry buildings, confined masonry buildings, reinforced concrete structures, and wooden houses. He has extensively worked on seismic vulnerability and risk assessment of different building typologies. He has published several research papers in national and international journals and conferences on different research areas and has received national and international awards for some of his excellent publications.