Dynamic Soil-Structure Interaction for Sustainable Infrastructures / Sustainable Civil Infrastructures (PDF)

Prof. Deepankar Choudhury is Institute Chair Professor of Civil Engineering department at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, Mumbai, India and Adjunct Professor of Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR) of CSIR laboratories (connected to CSIR-CBRI Roorkee) of India. Always first class first rank holder and Gold Medalist throughout academics in BE (Gold Medalist) from Jadavpur University Kolkata, India in 1997, ME (Gold Medalist) from IISc Bangalore, India in 2000 and PhD (with Best PhD Thesis Award from Indian Geotechnical Society for years 2001 and 2002) from IISc Bangalore, India in 2002, Prof. Choudhury also worked as a faculty at IIT Kanpur, new IITs at Gandhinagar and Dharwad (both on deputation from IIT-B) and as a Visiting Fellow/Faculty at NUS Singapore, UoW Australia, UC Berkeley USA, Kagoshima Univ. Japan, TU Darmstadt Germany and Incheon National Univ. South Korea. Prof. Choudhury is the only Geotechnical Engineer of India who is an elected Fellow (FNASc) of the oldest Science Academy of India, viz. The National Academy of Sciences, India.

Dr. El-Zahaby graduated from the Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University (Egypt) in 1985 with honors. He obtained his M.Sc. from Cairo University in 1989 and his Ph.D. from Civil Engineering Department in North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC (USA) in 1995. Upon graduation, he joined the Housing and Building National Research Center (HBRC) as a research assistant and was promoted in different positions. He is currently the HBRC Chairman. Dr. El-Zahaby is the recipient of the 2013 ICC Global Award of Atlantic City, NJ (USA) and has been a geotechnical consultant for almost 30 years. He is currently serving as an assessor for geotechnical consultants in Egypt. Dr. El-Zahaby is also the Principal Investigator of a research project funded by the STDF (Egypt) and NSF (USA) on the assessment of seismic hazards on wind turbines.

Professor Emeritus of Civil Engineering at the University