Prof. Deepankar choudhury, Ph. D., Fnasc, figs, fiset, ficdm, masce, mie, Humboldt Fellow, jsps fellow, twas vs fellow, boyscast fellow

[Note: *came for oral viva voce (defence) examination].

#Received Prof. G.A. Leonard’s Best PhD Thesis Award in India from IGS, New Delhi in 2013 and 2017.
&Received Best PhD Thesis Award in IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India for years 2015-2017 in 2017. Certificate. Photo.
$Received IACMAG John Carter Award – 2017 from International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics (IACMAG), AZ, USA. Certificate.

(b)     For M. Tech. :

Sl No	Name of the student/research scholar	Title of Dissertation	Year Started	Year Completed	Co-guide(s) if any	Current Affiliation
1	Santiram Chatterjee (Roll No. 04304801)	Displacement - based seismic earth pressure on retaining walls	Jan, 2005	April, 2006	NONE	Asst. Prof., IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India.
2	Somdatta Basu (Roll No. 04304026)	Static and seismic slope stability analyses	Jan, 2005	April, 2006	NONE	Manager, Siemens, Mumbai, India.
3	Deepa Modi (Roll No. 05304002)	Stability of reinforced and unreinforced soil slopes under seismic conditions	Jan, 2006	July, 2007	NONE	Engineer, Stantec, Kentucky, USA.
4	Rajeev Kumar Bharti (Roll No. 05304023)	Behaviour of subgrade soil under cyclic load below railway track	Jan, 2006	July, 2007	NONE	Scientist, CSMRS, New Delhi, India.
5	Mayukh Mukhopadhayay (Roll No. 06304007)	Pushover analysis for laterally loaded piles under static & seismic conditions	Jan, 2007	June, 2008	NONE	Engineer, Oracle, Bangalore, India.
6	Manoranjan Tripathy (Roll No. 06304009)	Behaviour of shallow foundations subjected to blast loads	Jan, 2007	June, 2008	NONE
7	Debarghya Chakraborty (Roll No. 07304001)	Behaviour of tailings earthen dam under seismic conditions	Jan, 2008	May, 2009	NONE	Asst. Professor, IIT Kharagpur, India.
8	Gaytree Vijay Dandekar (Roll No. 08304007)	Response of shallow foundations to underground and above ground blast loads	Jan, 2009	July, 2010	NONE	Engineer, Fugro, Mumbai, India.
9	K Sangeetha (Roll No. 09304005)	Modeling and analysis of retaining structures using FLAC	Jan, 2010	July, 2011	NONE	Engineer, Halcrow, Hyderabad, India.
10	Ritika Sangroya (Roll No. 10304021)	Comparative studies on soil slope stability under blast and seismic loadings using FLAC^2D	Jan, 2011	May, 2012	NONE	Geotechnical Engineer, ILF Consultants Inc. Reston, VA, USA.
11	V. Dilli Rao (Roll No. 113040012)	Analysis of single pile in liquefied soil during earthquake using FLAC	Jan, 2012	July, 2013	NONE	PhD Scholar, IIT Bombay.
12	Ankit Sarin (Roll No. 113040010)	Static and Seismic Slope Stability Analysis Using Slope/W, FLAC^2D and SoilWorks	Jan, 2012	March, 2014	NONE	Engineer, Atkins, Bangalore, India.
13	Janak Kumar Balabantaray (Roll No. 133040063)	Application of mass-spring-dashpot model for monument structure subjected to dynamic loads	Jan, 2014	June, 2015	NONE	Asst. Exec. Engineer, Housing & Urban Dev., Govt. of Odisha.
14	Debdeep Sarkar (Roll No. 143040014)	Numerical Modelling of Mud Holes in Ballast of Railway Tracks under Dynamic Loading	Jan, 2015	June, 2016	Prof. Dharamveer Singh, IITB & Prof. Christian Moormann, Univ. of Stuttgart, Germany (under DAAD, exchange program)	-
15	Tulika Bose (Roll No. 143040018)	Numerical Design of Trenches to Mitigate Vibrations in Transmission Area	Jan, 2015	June, 2016	Prof. Martin Ziegler, RWTH Aachen,Germany (under DAAD, exchange program)	-
16	Jashod Roy (Roll No. 153040013)	Seismic Behaviour of Combined Pile-Raft Foundation	Jan, 2016	May, 2017	NONE	-
17	Anurag Sahare (Roll No. 163040058)	Yet to be decided	Jan, 2017	On-going	NONE	-

(c)     For B. Tech. :

Sl No	Name of the student	Title of Project Report	Year Started	Year Completed	Co-guide(s) if any
1	Kishore K. Chauhan	Displacement - based static and seismic earth pressures	July, 2003	May, 2004	NONE
2	Persainjit Singh (Roll No. 02004010)	Behaviour of waterfront retaining structures under earthquake and tsunami forces	July, 2005	April, 2006	NONE
3	Vikram Reddy	Characterization of swelling soil for design of foundations	July, 2005	April, 2006	NONE
4	Siddharth Chauhan (Roll No. 03004004)	Behaviour of subgrade below railway track under cyclic loading	July, 2006	April, 2007	NONE
5	Rahul Sharma (Roll No. 03004011)	Behavior of waterfront retaining wall under combined effect of earthquake and tsunami forces	July, 2006	April, 2007	NONE
6	Karan Ganjoo (Roll No. 04004029)	Design of earthen dam under seismic conditions	July, 2007	May, 2008	NONE
7	Kamal Wadhwani (Roll No. 04004035)	Studies on behavior of subgrade below runway under different cyclic loads	July, 2007	May, 2008	NONE
8	P Sankara Rao (Roll No. 05004041)	Computation of static earth pressure behind retaining wall using Plaxis	July, 2008	August, 2009	NONE
9	Karan Gupta (Roll No. 120040062)	Biomechanical Modeling of human body considering damping of body segments	August, 2015	May, 2016	NONE

 

Supervision of Students at AcSIR, New Delhi, India:

 

(d)     For Ph.D. :

Sl No	Name of the student/research scholar	Title of Thesis	Year Started	Year Completed	Joint-Supervisor(s)	Examiners/Doctoral Advisory Committee	Current Affiliation
1	Dr. Anindya Pain (Enrolment No. 32EE12A01003)	Modified Pseudo-dynamic Method for Seismic Earth Pressures and Associated Problems	March, 2013	August 8, 2016 (Degree awarded on March 2, 2017)	Prof. S. K. Bhattacharyya (IITKGP), Former Director, CSIR-CBRI, Roorkee and Dr. Pradeep Kumar, CSIR-CBRI Roorkee	*Prof. G. L. Sivakumar Babu (IISc), Prof. Krishna Reddy (USA), Prof. M. N. Viladkar (IITR), Dr. S. Sarkar, CSIR-CBRI and Dr. Achal Mittal, CSIR-CBRI Roorkee	Scientist, CSIR-CBRI Roorkee, India.
2	Mr. Mahesh Sharma (Enrolment No. 32EE15A01004)	Pullout and lateral capacity of ground anchors under static and dynamic loading conditions	March, 2016	On-Going	Dr. S. Sarkar, Head, Geotech., & Mr. M. Samanta, Scientist, CSIR-CBRI, Roorkee	-	Trainee Scientist, CSIR-CBRI Roorkee, India.

(Note: * came for oral viva voce (defence) examination)
Supervision of Students at TU Darmstadt, Germany:

 

(e)     For M.S. :

Sl No	Name of the student/research scholar	Title of Dissertation	Year Started	Year Completed	Joint-Supervisor(s)
1	Mr. Cemal Can Maslak	Static and seismic stability analyses of soil slopes using numerical modeling	July, 2013	March, 2014	Prof.Dr.-Ing. Rolf Katzenbach and Dipl.-Ing. Frithjof Clauss

Supervision of Students from Other Institutes, India:

 

(f)     For M.Tech. :

Sl No	Name of the student/research scholar	Title of Dissertation	Year Started	Year Completed	Parent Institution of Student	Joint-Supervisor(s)
1	Mr. Smit Desai	Static and Dynamic Analysis of Nuclear Reactor Containment Vessel using FLAC^3D	August, 2013	July, 2014	S. V. NIT, Surat, India	Prof. C. S. Solanki (SVNIT, Surat)

Post Doctoral Fellow:

• 
  Dr. Ranjit Das, PhD from Department of Earthquake Engineering, IIT Roorkee, Roorkee, India. (during August 31, 2015 – March 3, 2016)
  

Other Visiting Scholars:

• 
  Dr. G. V. Narasimha Reddy, JNT University, College of Engineering, Hyderabad, India (during May – June, 2007)
  

  
News:

  

1. Television Interview in a LIVE show after Sikkim Earthquake, India as covered by News Channel TV9 – Maharashtra, India on September 19, 2011. Video 1, Video 2
2. Research News with my PhD student Mr. Sumedh Mhaske on Disaster Management for Mumbai city is covered by print media in National News Paper ‘Hindustan Times’ on August 9, 2010. Page 1, Page 2
3. Received Humboldt Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers for 2009 (senior Humboldt Fellow), given Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany.
4. Received IIT Bombay Young Investigator Award for the year 2007, given by IIT Bombay, India in 2009.
5. Received INSA-JSPS Bilateral Exchange Fellowship for 2009-2010, for research visit to Kagoshima University, Japan during May – July, 2009 as JSPS Fellow.
6. Received Shamsher Prakash (SP) Research Award – 2008: IIT Roorkee, for outstanding research contribution in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering given by Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India through S.P. Research Foundation, USA, on 8^th Annual Convocation on November 8, 2008. (Award given by Shri Jaiprakash Gaur, BOG Chairman of IIT Roorkee, Photo-1, Photo-2, Photo-3)
7. Received EXCELLENT PAPER AWARD FOR JUNIOR INDIVIDUALS (under 40 years category) – 2008 by International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics (IACMAG), USA. (www.iacmag.org)
8. Selected as Regular Member of Geo-Engineering Earthquake Reconnaissance (GEER), Berkeley, CA, USA since October, 2007. Also the first individual to get selected in this group as a member from India.

 

9.   Invited and attended the special session Interface between Nobel Laureates, World Food Prize Awardees, Nation Builders, Eminent Scientists and Young Scientist Awardees of 93^rd Indian Science Congress at Hyderabad, on January 3, 2006.

   

10.   Cited in MARQUIS WHO’S WHO IN THE WORLD, USA, 23^rd Edition, 2006.

 

11.   News on ISCA Young Scientist Award appeared in rediff.com on February 3, 2005. Click here for the news.

 

12.  Same News appeared in ‘THE HINDU’ An Indian Daily Newspaper, on February 3, 2005. Click here for the news.

 

13.   Same news appeared in ‘Indian Express’ An Indian Daily Newspaper, in Mumbai News on February 8, 2005. Click here for the news in web. (See & Read News).

 

14. Same news appeared in ‘Asian Age’ An Indian Daily Newspaper, in Mumbai Age, on February 6, 2005; in ‘PLANET POWAI’ A local Newspaper, on February 6, 2005; in ‘THE TIMES OF INDIA’ An Indian Daily Newspaper, in Mulund Plus, on February 13, 2005 (See & Read News).

 

15. Organized successfully, as Organising Secretary of International Conference on Geosynthetics and Geoenvironmental Engineering, (ICGGE-2004) during 8 - 10 December, 2004 at IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India. (Some selected Photos of the event).

 

16. NPTEL member and Instructor for Web-based Course on “Foundation Engineering” for National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL) in Phase-I and for Video Courses on “Soil Dynamics” and “Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering” in Phase-II, a Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Govt. of India initiative. See http://nptel.iitm.ac.in/ for details.

 

 

Personal:

  

My Family Members:

 

I am a Bengali from Calcutta (now Kolkata), India. My family members are,

 

Mother - Mrs. Dipali Choudhury.

Father - Mr. Bhabatosh Choudhury.

Wife - Mrs. Nilanjana Choudhury, Singer, Grade B, Category Rabindra sangeet (Tagore’s song), All India Radio (AIR), Kolkata, India. Also directed and recorded Institute Song of IIT Bombay with few students of IITB in 2017. Website. Download Institute Song of IIT Bombay.

Son - Master Abhroneel Choudhury.

Daughter - Miss Diyanjana Choudhury.

 

 

Places Visited:

 

International:

 

GERMANY

1. Darmstadt/Frankfurt, Germany during January 6, 2010 to June 27, 2010; Route: Kuwait Airways KU, Mumbai-Kuwait-Frankfurt; Germany.

2. Cologne (Koln), Germany on January 20, 2010 and on February 15, 2010; Route: ICE from Frankfurt.

3. Bayreuth, Germany during February 3, 2010 to February 5, 2010; Route: ICE from Frankfurt via Nurmberg.

4. Mainz, Germany on February 15, 2010; Route: RB from Darmstadt.

5. Berlin, Germany during March 4 - 6, 2010 and June 21 - 23, 2010; Route: ICE from Frankfurt via Leipzig.

6. Rudesheim, Germany on April 4, 2010; Route: RB from Darmstadt.

7. Frankfurt, Germany on April 10, 2010; Route: RB from Darmstadt.

8. Heidelberg, Germany on May 5, 2010; Route: RB from Darmstadt.

9. Speyer, Germany on June 13, 2010; Route: RB from Darmstadt.

10. Darmstadt/Frankfurt, Germany during May 5, 2011 to July 26, 2011; Route: Air India, Mumbai-Delhi-Frankfurt; Germany.

11. Stuttgart, Germany on June 28, 2011; Route: IC from Darmstadt.

12. Kaiserslautern, Germany on July 12 to July 13, 2011; Route: ICE from Darmstadt.

13. Darmstadt/Frankfurt, Germany during May 5, 2012 to July 26, 2012; Route: Air India, Mumbai-Delhi-Frankfurt; Germany.

14. Munich, Germany on May 30 – 31, 2012; Route: Air Malta (code share with Lufthansa) from Catenia, Italy.

15. Rostock, Germany on May 31 – June 3, 2012; Route: IC from Darmstadt via Hamburg, Germany.

16. Nuremberg, Germany on June 9, 2012; Route: ICE from Darmstadt, Germany.

17. Mainz, Germany on June 30, July 21, 2012; June 29, July 14, 2013; Route: RB from Darmstadt.

18. Manheim, Germany on July 21, 2012; Route: RB from Darmstadt.

19. Darmstadt/Frankfurt, Germany during June 7, 2013 to July 19, 2013; Route: Air India, Mumbai-Delhi-Frankfurt; Germany.

20. Trier, Germany on June 24, 2013; Route: ICE and RE through Koblenz, Mainz, Darmstadt.

21. Aachen, Germany on July 18, 2013; Route: ICE from Darmstadt.

22. Darmstadt/Frankfurt, Germany during May 14, 2014 to July 18, 2014; Route: Air India, Mumbai-Delhi-Frankfurt; Germany.