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

PROF. DEEPANKAR CHOUDHURY, Ph.D., FNASc, FIGS, FISET, FICDM, MASCE, MIE, Humboldt Fellow, JSPS Fellow, TWAS VS Fellow, BOYSCAST Fellow

 

Institute Chair Professor

Department of Civil Engineering,

Indian Institute of Technology Bombay,

IIT Bombay, Powai, Mumbai – 400 076, INDIA.
And,

Adjunct Professor,

Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR),

CSIR Campus, CSIR Road, Taramani, Chennai 600113, INDIA and

CSIR – Central Building Research Institute (CBRI),

CBRI Colony, Roorkee 247667, INDIA.
Office: Room No. 131, Civil Engineering Building, IIT Bombay, Mumbai.

Lab: Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering Laboratory, 4^th Floor, VMCC, IIT Bombay, Mumbai.
Phone: [phone] (O), 4307 (L), 8335 (R)

Fax: [phone]
E-mail: dc @ civil.iitb.ac.in (preferred)

dchoudhury @ iitb.ac.in

deepankarchoudhury @ yahoo.com

deepankarchoudhury @ gmail.com

URL: http://www.civil.iitb.ac.in/~dc/

 

 

Education:

 

Degree	Area	Institute	Year	Remarks	Photo
Ph.D.	Civil Engg.	Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore, India	2002	Best Thesis Award in India by IGS, Prof. G. A. Leonard’s Best Ph.D. Thesis Biannual Award in India among all Indian Universities given by Indian Geotechnical Society, New Delhi	Award given at IGC-2003, IIT Roorkee
M.E.	Civil (Geotech.) Engg.	IISc Bangalore, India	2000	GOLD Medalist, 1^st Class 1^st in Civil with Distinction and 1^st in Entire Institute among all departments (1 Gold Medal, Cash Award, Senate Commendation Award from IISc)	Award given by Prof. Goverdhan Mehta, Director, IISc
B.E.	Civil Engineering	Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India	1997	GOLD Medalist, 1^st Class 1^st in Civil with Honours and 2^nd in Entire University among all departments (2 Gold, 1 Silver, 2 Bronze Medals from Jadavpur University)	-
10+2	Science	Jodhpur Park Boys School, Kolkata, India	1993	30^th Rank in entire W.B. State among ~ 3 lakhs candidates (National Merit Scholarship winner)	-
10^th	General	Jodhpur Park Boys School, Kolkata, India	1991	74^th Rank in entire W.B. State among ~ 5 lakhs candidates (National Merit Scholarship winner)	-

 



Research Interests:

1. Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering (Applied to retaining wall, reinforced soil-wall, waterfront structures, slope, foundation, pile, anchor, characterization of waste materials, design of MSW landfills, site characterization, liquefaction, GIS-GPS based hazard map, combined pile-raft foundation etc.).

2. Dynamic Soil-Structure Interaction problems (foundations under blast load, cyclic load, rail load etc.), Computational Geomechanics.

3. Centrifuge modeling of geotechnical structures.

4. Numerical and analytical modeling of retaining wall, anchor, slope, shallow foundations and deep (pile) foundations.

5. Fundamentals of soil behaviour for fine grained soils, DDL theory.

6. Swell-shrink behaviour of expansive soil.



Positions held:

Position	Institute/Organisation	Duration
Institute Chair Professor	Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Bombay, Mumbai 400076, India.	October, 2017 to till date
Professor	Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Bombay, Mumbai 400076, India.	June, 2012 to till date
Adjunct Professor	Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) Road, Chennai and CSIR-Central Building Research Institute (CBRI), Roorkee 247667, India.	Jan, 2013 to till date
Visiting Professor	Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engg., Incheon National University, #119 Academy-ro, Yeonsu-gu, Incheon 22012, Republic of Korea(South Korea)	May – June, 2017
Professor (on deputation from IIT Bombay)	IIT Dharwad, WALMI Campus, Dharwad 580011, Karnataka, India.	January – April, 2017
Visiting Professor (Guest Professor)	Institute & Laboratory of Geotechnics, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Technical University (TU) Darmstadt, Franziska-Braun-Strasse 7, Darmstadt – 64287, Germany.	June – July, 2013 May – July, 2014
Associate Professor	Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India.	April, 2007 to May, 2012
Humboldt Research Fellow (Experienced Researcher)	Institute & Laboratory of Geotechnics, Faculty of Civil Engineering & Geodesy, Technical University (TU) Darmstadt, Petersenstr. 13, Darmstadt – 64287, Germany.	January – June, 2010; May – July, 2011: May – July, 2012
Visiting Scientist (JSPS Fellow)	Department of Ocean Civil Engineering, Kagoshima University, Korimoto, Kagoshima, Japan.	May – July, 2009
Associate Professor (on deputation)	IIT Gandhinagar, Chandkheda, Gandhinagar – 382 424, Gujarat, India.	January – April, 2009
Assistant Professor	Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Bombay, India.	July, 2003 - March, 2007
Visiting Scholar (BOYSCAST Fellow)	Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, USA.	April - Oct, 2006
Visiting Fellow	School of Civil, Mining and Environmental Engineering, University of Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia	May - June, 2005
Visiting Scientist	Department of Civil Engineering, National University of Singapore.	May - July, 2004
Lecturer	Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Kanpur, India.	Nov, 2002 - June, 2003
Graduate Trainee Engineer	Development Consultants Limited (DCL), Calcutta, India	July, 1997 – July, 1998