Prof. Shamsher Prakash, Honorary Fellow & former President of the Indian Society of Earthquake Technology (ISET) and Professor Emeritus, Department of Civil Engineering, Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, MO 65409-0030, USA has instituted a 4-yearly “ISET Shamsher Prakash Award for Significant Contributions in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering” to honour individuals for their outstanding contributions in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering. The award consists of an award money of INR 51,000/-, plus a Shawl, and a plaque. This award was instituted on March 12, 2008.
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Prof. Amir M. Kaynia is a Technical Specialist in Geotechnics at Norconsult AS, Norway, and Professor Emeritus at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). He received his BSc in Civil Engineering from Tehran University in 1977, and MSc and PhD degrees from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1979 and 1982, respectively. He worked at the Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (NGI) in the period 1993-2021 where he served as Technical Expert in Earthquake Engineering and Vibrations. Prof. Kaynia’s areas of research and engineering practice have included Soil Dynamics with applications to soil-structure interaction problems, vibration from high-speed trains, and earthquake response of offshore energy-related structures. Prof. Kaynia has published more than 220 papers, authored 6 book chapters, edited the book Analysis of Pile Foundations Subject to Static and Dynamic Loading in 2021, and has delivered numerous invited and keynote lectures worldwide. The topics have included seismic stability of slopes and its impact on structures, dynamic response of offshore oil/gas and wind energy structures including the effect of liquefaction on their foundations. In 2022 he delivered the Bengt Broms Lecture at Aarhus University, Denmark, for his work on modelling and mitigation of ground vibration from railway lines. Prof. Kaynia has led major international engineering design projects and has coordinated research projects funded by the European Commission and the Norwegian Research Council in the above topics. Prof. Kaynia is member of the Editorial Boards of Soil Dynamics & Earthquake Engineering, Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics and Transportation Geotechnics. He is chairman of the Earthquake Engineering Committee in Norwegian Standards and is additionally member of the Project Team for revision of Eurocode 8, Part 5, specifying rules for geotechnical earthquake design.
Prof. Susumu Yasuda is a professor emeritus at Tokyo Denki University. He received his B.S. in civil engineering from the Kyushu Institute of Technology in 1970. Then he received his M.E. and Doctor of Engineering in civil engineering from the University of Tokyo in 1972 and 1975, respectively. After receiving his doctorate, he worked at Kiso-jiban Consultants Co. as a geotechnical consulting engineer. He joined the Kyushu Institute of Technology in 1986, and then moved to Tokyo Denki University in 1994. He was the Vice President of Tokyo Denki University from 2016 to 2017. He retired in 2018 and is currently a visiting professor at Tokyo Denki University. He was the Vice President of the Japanese Geotechnical Society from 2006 to 2007 and the President of the Japan Association for Earthquake Engineering from 2013 to 2014. In the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, he was the chairman of the Asian Technical Committee (ATC) No.10 on Urban Geo-informatics from 2002 to 2006 and the chairman of the ATC No.3 on Geotechnology for Natural Hazards from 2006 to 2010. He has given many invited and keynote lectures at numerous international conferences, and has conducted research and technical assistance in Chile, Turkey, and other countries. Among the many awards that he has received is a Commendation from the Prime Minister of Japan. His research fields are diverse, including liquefaction during earthquakes, the collapse of natural slopes and embankments, and the collapse of river levees and debris flows during heavy rains. In particular, he has been conducting research and technological development into liquefaction for approximately 50 years since he began his research under Prof. Kenji Ishihara during his master’s degree program. He has clarified the causes of damage due to liquefaction, created design code, developed countermeasures, and developed methods for creating hazard maps. After the 2011 Tohoku earthquake, he was involved in developing countermeasures to liquefaction damage not just for individual houses but for an entire damaged city area. The results of these studies have been published in numerous papers and several books.
Professor Ross W. Boulanger is the Director of the Center for Geotechnical Modeling in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Davis. He received his PhD and MS degrees in Civil Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley, and his BASc degree in Civil Engineering from the University of British Columbia. His research and professional practice are primarily related to liquefaction and its remediation, seismic performance of dams and levees, and seismic soil-pile-structure interaction. He has produced over 250 publications and served as a technical specialist on over 50 seismic dam safety projects. His honors include the TK Hsieh Award from the Institution of Civil Engineers, the Shamsher Prakash Research Award from the SP Foundation, the Ralph B. Peck Award, Norman Medal, Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize, and Arthur Casagrande Professional Development Award from the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), and election to the US National Academy of Engineering.
Prof. Ikuo Towhata received his B.E., M.E. and Doctor of Engineering from the University of Tokyo in 1977, 1979 and 1982 respectively. He has taught at the University of British Columbia, the Asian Institute of Technology, and Chulalongkom University in Bangkok as well as the University of Tokyo. Currently he is a Visiting Professor at Kanto Gakuin University, Yokohama. In addition to authoring the book, entitled “Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering”, Prof. Towhata has presented numerous invited lectures and has served on a number of editing boards and committees for professional journals internationally. He holds membership in many Societies and was Vice President, Japan Association for Earthquake Engineering (2009-2012), Vice President for Asia, International Society for Soil Mechanics Geotechnical Engineering (2013-2017) and President, Japanese Geotechnical Society 2014-2016. Served on the board of directors for the Japanese Society of Geotechnical Engineering (1999-2002, 2005-2008), the Japan Association for Earthquake Engineering (2004-2006), the Japan Landslide Society (2004-2008). Prof. Towhata has received many awards since 1985, including several “Best Paper” awards and the Shamsher Prakash Research Award in 1999. His fields of major interest include Deformation Characteristics of Cohesionless Soils, Dynamic Analysis of Earth Structures During Earthquakes, Permanent Displacement of Ground Caused by Seismic Liquefaction, Soil Improvement by Densification and Grouting, Microscopic Observation of Granular Behavior of Sand Subjected to Shear, Dynamics of landslide and debris flow, Mechanical Properties of Municipal Waste Ground, Seismic performance-based design of geotechnical structures, Mitigation of rainfall-induced slope instability. His recent activities include Recovery and retrofitting for future of infrastructures (residential islands, river levees and Fukushima No.1 Nuclear Power Plant) that were damaged by the 2011 Tohoku gigantic earthquake, liquefaction and nuclear disaster. International consulting on seismic safety of dams and embankments.
Prof. George Gazetas obtained diploma in Civil Engineering from National Technical University of Athens, Greece in the year 1973. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the years 1975 and 1976, respectively. Presently, Dr. Gazetas is Professor of Soil Mechanics at the National Technical University, Athens and a Member of the Editorial Committees for the drafting of the Greek (EAK), European (EC-8), and US (NEHRP) Seismic Codes. Prof. Gazetas was also President of the Hellenic Society for Earthquake Engineering (2003-2009) and Member of the Board of Directors of the Organization for Anti-Seismic Protection (OASP) of Greece (1999-2005). Prof. Gazetas’s main research interest is in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering, Soil Mechanics and Foundations. He has authored over 400 research publications in journals and conference proceedings, and delivered State-of- the-art and Κeynote lectures in 50 international and national conferences and symposia. Prof. Gazetas has completed several international engineering projects especially on the earthquake and foundations engineering.
Prof. Ricardo Dobry obtained his B.S. in Structural Engineering from University of Chile in 1963. He received his M.S. in Soil Mechanics from National University of Mexico in 1964 and Sc.D. in Civil Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1971. Presently, Dr. Dobry is Institute Professor and Director, NEES-NSF Geotechnical Centrifuge Research Center, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY. Dr. Dobry was elected member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2004, for fundamental contributions to multiple aspects of geotechnical earthquake engineering. Dr. Dobry has served as consultant and member of consulting boards of important and prestigious civil engineering projects, including offshore oil platforms in Venezuela and Australia, earth dams and dikes in California, Puerto Rico and South America, seismic retrofitting of several large bridges in NYC, seismic guidelines for design of new bridges in NYC, and design of the new Rion-Antirion bridge in Greece. Dr. Dobry’s main research interest is in soil dynamics, geotechnical earthquake engineering and geotechnical dynamic centrifuge testing. He was a leading participant of the group that wrote the new seismic provisions on local site amplification in the 1990’s now incorporated in U.S. building codes. He is one of 15 interconnected experimental nodes funded by NSF to revolutionize earthquake engineering research in the U.S. He has written more than 200 technical papers, state-of-the-art and keynote speaker in 06 International Conferences and Symposia and has directed 40 Ph.D. and M.S. theses at Rensselaer.
Prof. W.D. Liam Finn graduated from the National University of Ireland in 1955 with a B.E. in Civil Engineer ing. He received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. from the University of Washington in Seattle in 1958 and 1961 respectively. He started the first program of Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering in Canada at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver in 1965. He is Professor of Civil Engineering at University of British Columbia since 1964. In 1999, he was appointed as the first Anabuki Professor of Foundation Geodynamics at Kagawa University, Japan. Presently, Dr. Liam Finn is a Professor Emeritus and a Member of University of British Columbia Research Group developing cost-effective options for the Government’s $1.5bn 10 year retrofit program for British Columbia Schools. Prof. Finn is also president of Pan-American Engineering and Computing Services Ltd. in Vancouver. Prof. Finn’s main research interest is geotechnical earthquake engineering with particular interest in liquefaction, seismic response of sites and earth structures, seismic safety evaluation of dams, seismic response of pile foundations and seismic risk. He has published over 370 papers on these topics. Prof. Finn has advised on several international projects especially on the seismic safety of dams and he pioneered the use of dynamic effective stress analysis in practice in 1975.ISET Shamsher Prakash Mid Career Research Award |
Prof. Shamsher Prakash, Honorary Fellow and former President of the Indian Society of Earthquake Technology (ISET) and Professor Emeritus, Department of Civil Engineering, Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, MO 65409-0030, USA has instituted a 4-yearly “ISET Shamsher Prakash Mid-Career Research Award for Significant Contributions in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering” to honour mid-career researchers for their outstanding contributions in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering. The award consists of an award money of INR 51,000/-, plus a Shawl, and a plaque. This award has been given for the first time for the year 2022.
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Prof. Neelima Satyam is currently a Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at IIT Indore. She obtained her Ph.D. and M.Tech from IIT Delhi and B.Tech from SV University, Tirupati. She worked as an Assistant professor in Earthquake Engineering Research Centre, IIIT Hyderabad, before joining IIT Indore. She was a visitin g researcher at the University of Stuttgart (2018) and at the University of Tokyo (2013). She is actively engaged in teaching, research, and consultancy in the field of Geotechnical engineering, particularly in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering, Microzonation and Site Response studies, Landslide hazard and monitoring, Microseismic data processing, and Rock engineering. Dr. Neelima received research grants from DST, MHRD, AICTE, ITRA, DAE, NIOT, NRDMS, ISRO, and MoES. She published 150+ papers in International/National Journals and Conferences. Her publications has received the IGS best paper award for “Innovations in Field Exploration” in 2006, OSPA award in AGU Fall meeting 2021 and the Best research paper award from IIT Indore in 2021. She is a Co-opted member of PAC Civil and Mechanical Engineering SERB, DST (2015-2018). She has been the Chairperson of the selection committee for MEXT Scholarships of Japan since 2015. She is a recipient of the IEI Young Engineers Award 2011; the BRNS Young Scientist Research Award 2011; the AICTE Career award 2012 and JSPS fellowship in 2013, the Young Woman Engineer award from INWES in 2012, and the CIDC Vishwakarma award in 2021. She is a fellow of JSPS, IGS, ISET and IEI, and she is presently the editorial board member of several reputed journals including Nature Scientific Reports (I.F. 4.996) and Journal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (I.F. 5.915).ISET Shamsher Prakash Early Career Research Award |
Prof. Shamsher Prakash, Honorary Fellow and former President of the Indian Society of Earthquake Technology (ISET) and Professor Emeritus, Department of Civil Engineering, Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, MO 65409-0030, USA has instituted a 4-yearly “ISET Shamsher Prakash Early Career Research Award for Significant Contributions in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering” to encourage young researchers in their early career for their outstanding contributions in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering. The award consists of an award money of INR 51,000/-, plus a Shawl, and a plaque. This award has been given for the first time for the year 2022.
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Dr. Supriya Mohanty is working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at the Indian Institute of Tec hnology (BHU), Varanasi, India. She received her Ph.D. degree in Civil Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India, and her B.Tech. degree in Civil Engineering from the Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology, Burla, Odisha, India. Her fields of research interest are liquefaction potential evaluation, soil dynamics, and geotechnical earthquake engineering. She has produced over 54 publications in peer reviewed journals and conferences. Her honors include the Early Career Research Award from the SERB Division, DST, and the Young Scientist in Civil Engineering Award from the Venus International Foundation. She has been received University Gold Medal, Achyutananda Pujari Memorial Gold Medal, and University Silver Medal during her B.Tech. She is a life member, associate member, and member of various professional associations such as; the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI), Institute of Engineers, India (IEI), Japan International Cooperation Agency, Indian Geotechnical Society (IGS), Indian Society of Earthquake Technology (ISET) and Association of Consulting Civil Engineers (ACCE-India).