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Dr. Arjun Sil is currently an Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Civil Engineering, National Institute of Technology Silchar, India. He obtained his B.Tech. from North Eastern Regional Institute of Science and Technology (NERIST), India; M.Tech. from National Institute of Technology (NIT) Silchar; and Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India. His specific areas of research are interdisciplinary such as earthquake engineering including structural engineering, geotechnical earthquake engineering, seismology, seismic hazard, site response, microzonation, risk evaluation, solid mechanics, condition assessment and health monitoring of structures, reliability and probability, monte carlo simulation, space hazards, Covid-19, GIS and remote sensing, corrosion modelling, chloride, wind, and landslide hazard assessment. He has published so far more than 59 research articles [http://www.nits.ac.in/departments/civil/civil.php] in highly reputed international journals (SCI, Scopus), 12 papers in conferences and one granted patent. He has so far guided 34 M.Tech. scholars, Ph.D. scholars (03 defended, 03 submitted). Currently several Ph.D. and M.Tech. scholars are working under him in various domains. He is a reviewer of various prestigious journals such as Natural Hazards Review (ASCE), Journal of Geomatics, Natural hazards and Risk (Taylor & Francis), Journal of Earthquake Engineering (Taylor & Francis), and Corrosion Engineering Science and Technology (Taylor and Francies). He has received several prestigious awards such as Outstanding Structural Engineer of the Year Award-2020, Conferred by the Governing Council of "Indian Association of Structural Engineers (IAStructE)", New Delhi, India, for the overall contribution of Civil Engineering. He is acting as "Research Advisor" of Nanyang Academy of Sciences (Singapore), received IGS-Sardar Resham Singh Memorial Award-2015, conferred by Indian Geotechnical Society (IGS), New Delhi.