ISET Lifetime Achievement Award
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Prof. Chandrakant S. Desai is a Regents’ Professor (Emeritus) at the University of Arizona, Tucson, USA. He obtained d egrees of B.E., MS and PhD from VJTI, University of Bombay; Rice University, Houston; and University of Texas, Austin in 1959, 1966 and 1968, respectively then worked with various academic institutions and government agencies. Literature and writing were his favorite subjects, but fate led him to technology. His 7 technical books, original and innovative, containing literary and philosophical aspects, on behavior of materials and computer methods, have been published by Van Nostrand Reinhold, McGraw Hill, Prentice Hall, Taylor and Francis/CRC Press. Some of them have been best sellers. He has authored/edited 24 books (including 7 mentioned above), 20 book chapters and over 345 technical papers in reputed journals and conferences. Prof. Desai has been the founding Editor-in-Chief for two international journals published by the American Society of Civil Engineers and John Wiley, United Kingdom, and the founding president of the International Association for Geomechanics. Prof. Desai has received a number of awards and honors: e.g., Fellow, National Academy of Engineering (India); Lifetime Achievement Award, VJTI, Univ. of Bombay; Distinguished Member Award by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE); Nathan M. Newmark Medal by Structural Engineering and Engineering Mechanics Institutes, ASCE; Karl Terzaghi Award, by Geo Institute, (ASCE); Distinguished Scholar in Residence and Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay and Gandhinagar; Honorary Professor, University of Nottingham, U.K.; Chief Distinguished Guest Professor, Chongqing University, China; Diamond Jubilee Honor, Indian Geotechnical Society; Suklje Award/Lecture, Slovenian Geotechnical Society; Meritorious Civilian Service Award by the U.S. Corps of Engineers, USA; Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung Prize by the German Government; Outstanding Contributions Medal by the International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics; Fellow, American Academy of Mechanics; Outstanding Contributions Medal in Mechanics by the Czech Academy of Sciences; Clock Award for outstanding Contributions for Thermomechanical Analysis in Electronic Packaging by the Electrical and Electronic Packaging Division, ASME; Five Star Faculty Teaching Finalist Award and the El Paso Natural Gas Foundation Faculty Achievement Award, at the University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona.ISET Biot Award
Mrs. Nadine Biot, Avenue Paul Hymans, 117 Bte 34, B 1200 Brussels, Belgium has instituted a 4-yearly “ISET Biot Award for Significant Contributions in Earthquake Engineering with emphasis on Biot Response Spectrum Method” in the name of Dr. Maurice A. Biot to honour individuals for their outstanding contributions in Earthquake Engineering with emphasis on Biot Response Spectrum Method. The award consists of an award money of INR 2,00,000/- and a Citation. This award was instituted on March 02, 2016.
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Prof. Vinay K. Gupta is one of the well-known experts in Earthquake Engineering worldwide. He has conducted theoretical work on a variety of topics including: response spectrum-based modal combination rules, wavelet-based stochastic response, engineering ground-motion simulation, performance-based seismic design, response of secondary systems, aftershock response, rocking ground motions, seismic hazard assessment, soil-structure interaction, and statistics of earthquake response. He is an author or co-author of about 85 papers in refereed journals. He has made ground-breaking contributions to probabilistic formulation of structural response to earthquakes. He formulated and extended the existing methods and showed how the Biot Response Spectrum can be used to correct the stationary stochastic representations to be applicable to highly transient time series. Prof. Gupta joined Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur in 1990. Before joining IIT Kanpur, he spent 10 months at University of Southern California (1989-1990) as Research Associate in Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, three years at University of Roorkee (now IIT Roorkee), first as Teaching Assistant and then as Lecturer in Department of Civil Engineering (1983-1986), and one year at Engineers India Limited, first as Management Trainee and then as Junior Engineer in Ocean Engineering Department (1982-1983). His other appointments include Guest Professor for two months at Aalborg University, Department of Building Technology and Structural Engineering (1989), and Third-Country Scholar (academic and/or professional of outstanding experience under the MEEES programme) for three months at University of Pavia, ROSE School (2006). He is a Member of Seismological Society of America (SSA), Affiliate Member of Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI), Life Member of Indian Society of Wind Engineering (ISWE), and Member of Institution of Engineers (India). He is also a Life Fellow of Indian Society of Earthquake Technology (ISET), Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences (RANS), and Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE). He has received the Kapitsa Medal in 2004 from the RANS, the ISET Hanumantacharaya Joshi Award for the Best Paper in Structural Dynamics for the block year 2001–2004, the ISET B.N. Gupta Award for the Best Paper in Seismology and Seismotectonics for the block year 2017–2020, and Young Engineer Award in 1997 from the INAE. He has served as Associate Editor of ASCE Journal of Structural Engineering (2004–2014), and as Editor of ISET Journal of Earthquake Technology (1998–2013). He has also served as Member, Executive Committee, ISET (1997–2013) and Vice President, ISET (2003–2007).
Prof. Mihailo D. Trifunac is one of the leading experts in Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Seismology worldwide. He has conducted both theoretical and experimental work on a variety of topics including: earthquake source mechanism, empirical scaling of strong ground motion, strong motion arrays deployment, seismic wave propagation and site effects on strong ground motion, seismic hazard assessment, structural dynamics and soil-structure interaction, full-scale testing of structures, seismic instrumentation and data processing, statistics of earthquake response, and tsunami research. He is an author or coauthor of 460 widely cited technical publications. Prof. Trifunac joined the University of Southern California (USC) in 1976. Before joining USC, he spent three years at California Institute of Technology (1972-1975) as Assistant Professor of Applied Science, two years at Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory of Columbia University first as Research Scientist, and then as Research Associate and Lecturer in Department of Geology (1970-1972), and one year at California Institute of Technology as Research Fellow in Applied Mechanics (1969-1970). His other appointments include J.S.P.S. Research Professor at Kyoto University, School of Civil Eng: (1988/89), and Consultant of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to its Advisory Committees on Reactor Safeguards (1971-1994), and on Nuclear Waste (1989-1994). As United Nations consultant he lectured in India at Central Water and Power Research Station, near Pune, from 1979 to 1982. He is a member of American Geophysical Union (AGU), American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), Seismological Society of America (SSA), Sigma Xi; Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI), Indian Society of Earthquake Technology (ISET), and New York Academy of Sciences. He is also a member of the Serbian Academy of Engineering, the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering, and Honorary Member of Indian Society of Earthquake Technology. He has received the Kapitsa Gold Medal, to author of scientific discovery in 2002 from the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, Lockheed Martin Senior Research Award for seminal contributions in the field of earthquake engineering and seismology in 2000 from the University of Southern California, the ISET Best Paper Award for 1989, and the Hanumatacharya Joshi Award in 1991 for the Best Paper in Structural Dynamics. He was named among the Top 20 Authors on the Special Topic – Earthquakes worldwide for the period 1993-2003 (one of only two earthquake engineers on this list), and among Top 1% Authors in Engineering worldwide by the Institute of Scientific Information (Thompson ISI). He is ranked by Microsoft Academic Search among the top authors (All years) in Civil Engineering (12th), Mechanical Engineering (46th), Seismology (1st), and Reliability and Risk (1st).ISET V.H. Joshi Award
Prof. V.H. Joshi, Life Fellow & Former President of the Indian Society of Earthquake Technology (ISET) and Prof. (Retd.), Department of Earthquake Engineering, IIT Roorkee has instituted a 4-yearly “ISET V.H. Joshi Award for Significant Contributions in Structural Dynamics” to honour individuals for their outstanding contributions in Structural Dynamics. The award consists of an award money of INR 1,25,000/-, and a Citation. This award was instituted on December 01, 2012
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Prof. Firdaus E. Udwadia received his B.Tech degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, and his MS and Ph.D. degrees from the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena. He is Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Systems Architecture Engineering, Mathematics, and Information and Operations Management at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. His main areas of research are Structural and Analytical Dynamics, Applied Mathematics, Structural Control, Computational Methods, Nonlinear Dynamical Systems, Optimization, Systems Engineering, and Collaborative Design. His research, though fundamental, has been widely used and has engendered significant changes in the practices of Civil, Mechanical, and Aerospace Engineering. His paradigm shifting and revolutionary research has brought about new and unexpected foundational insights into the areas of system identification, structural dynamics, theory of stability, Lagrangian dynamics, invariants of motion of linear and nonlinear systems, theory and computation of Lyapunov exponents, theory of constrained motion, control of nonlinear mechanical and structural systems, and the properties of general dynamical systems. He has published two hundred refereed journal papers and about an equal number of papers in Proceedings of various international conferences. He was the Editor-in-Chief of the ASCE Journal of Aerospace Engineering, has delivered numerous keynote and plenary addresses across the globe, and is currently Associate Editor of several international journals in Structural Dynamics, Applied Mechanics, Applied Mathematics, System Identification, Dynamical Systems, and Optimization and Control Theory. He was a founding member of the International Workshops on Dynamics and Control in the 1990’s. His work in earthquake engineering, especially in system identification, was used as a basis for emending the US Uniform Building Code. Though of a fundamental character, his research has had widespread applications and has been used for: modeling complex aerospace structural systems by NASA; on-board system identification of space systems by the US Air Force; control of complex motions of space structures, such as their tumbling, by several US Aerospace companies; testing, identification and fault detection of building structures, aerospace structures, and mechanical system by several organizations such as NASA, US Air Force, and civil engineering companies; and, control of building structures, mechanical and aerospace systems, robots, and UAVs by governmental agencies and US corporations. He is the recipient of the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai (1982), the Outstanding Technological Innovations Award from NASA (1983), Outstanding Achievement Award from the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (2000), Outstanding Technical Contributions Award from the American Society of Civil Engineers (2006), Richard Torrens Award from the American Society of Civil Engineers (2008), and the Thomas Caughey Medal from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (2018). He was elected Life Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers for his extraordinary contributions to Structural Dynamics and System Identification, and Life Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics for his outstanding, seminal, and unique contributions to Aerospace Engineering.
Dr. Maria Todorovska is currently a Professor of the Civil Engineering Department of Tianjin University (TJU) in China and the Director of the Strong Motion Observation and Simulation Laboratory, which she founded in 2017. She has spent most of her academic career at the University of Southern California in the USA, where she is currently an Adjunct Research Professor. She was born in Skopje, Macedonia, where she received her undergraduate education (B.S. in Physics from St. Cyril and Methodius University, 1982). She went to graduate school at the University of Southern California, where she received MS and PhD degrees in Civil Engineering (1985 and 1988), second MS degree in Applied Mathematics (1988) and third MS degree in Electrical Engineering (2001). Her research involves applications of mechanics, mathematics and signal processing to problems in earthquake engineering and engineering seismology. She is a leader in research on the wave method for analysis of the dynamic response of civil engineering structures to which she has been contributing since the late 1980s. More recently, she has been developing robust wave methods for structural system identification and health monitoring of full-scale structures. She has recently developed a full-scale structural seismic monitoring site in Kunming, southwest China, uniquely instrumented for studies of structural system identification and health monitoring and of soil-structure interaction, which has been recording valuable data. Dr. Todorovska is the author or a coauthor of about 130 journal articles and many conference papers and technical reports. She has been named among Top 20 Authors worldwide on the Special Topic – Earthquakes for the period 1993-2003 by the Institute of Scientific Information (Thompson ISI), among Top 1% Authors in Engineering for the period 1995-2011 by Thompson ISI, and, recently, among 100,000 scientists worldwide and among top 2% scientists worldwide in their main subfield discipline in a study by Stanford University scientists published in PLoS Biol (2019, 2020). She is a Life Member of Indian Society of Earthquake Technology (ISET, 2004-), a Foreign Member of Russian Academy of Natural Sciences (2004-), a recipient of the Tianjin 1000Person Plan Award for Foreign Experts (2017-2020), and current Member of the Seismological Society of America (SSA) and of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).
Dr. Subrata Chakraborty, a fellow of the Indian National Academy Engineering, is currently Professor and Head of Civil Engineering at Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur (formerly Bengal Engineering College). Prof. Chakraborty completed his Bachelor in Civil Engineering from Bengal Engineering College in 1991, Master and Doctoral from IIT Kharagpur in 1993 & 1997, respectively. He was a postdoctoral researcher at University of Cambridge, UK, University of Arizona, USA & Technical University of Aachen, Germany. Professor Chakraborty’s research interests include Probabilistic Structural Analysis, Dynamic Analysis under Extreme Loads, Structural Health Monitoring, Vibration Control etc. Prof. Chakraborty has published extensively in peer reviewed journals, authored textbook and book chapters. He is an associate editor of the Journal of Institution of Engineers Series A, Journal of Technology and a member of the editorial board of Int. Journal Control Engineering & Technology. Prof. Chakraborty has supervised six doctoral and fifty master theses. He has completed a number of research projects funded by DST, UGC, CSIR etc. and collaborative research under the Indo-Italian Cultural Exchange Programme of UGC, CP-STIO programme of DST etc. Prof. Chakraborty is also active in important industrial consultancy e.g., quality control assurance services of thermal power plants, health inspection of second important bridges, checking structural integrity of tall buildings, hydroelectric power stations, water supply system, railway bridges etc. While his inspiring teaching coupled with innate urge for intensive research has already established him as a distinguished academician at the national level, several awards and laurels have come his way. The Humboldt Fellowship for Experienced Researchers in 2008, the BOYSCAST Fellowship in 2005, the Young Faculty Research Award in 2005, the INAE Young Engineer Award in 2003 deserve special mention.ISET Shamsher Prakash Award
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).