Editors

About the Editor

Prof. T. G. Sitharam Obtained his B E (Civil Engineering) from University of Mysore; Master’s from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in 1986 and Ph.D. from University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada in 1991. He has served University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA from 1991-94. Presently he is the Director of Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, Assam since July 2019. He also holds position of Director (additional charge) at Central Institute of Technology Kokrajhar, Assam. He is a Senior Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and he has served IISc for last 27 years. Prof. Sitharam is the member of Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Established through an Act of Parliament: SERB Act 2008, Department of Science & Technology, Government of India. He was the former Chairman, Research Council, CSIR-Central Building Research Institute (CBRI), Roorkee. Presently, he is the President of International Association for Coastal Reservoir Research (IACRR). His area of research is in the area of geotechnical and infrastructure engineering. He has published 500 technical papers, 20 books, with Google scholar H-index of 50 and I-10 index 146 with more than 8170 citations. He was listed in the world's top 2% of scientists for the most-cited research scientists in various disciplines by Stanford University in 2020 and again 2021.  He has guided 40 Ph.D. students; 35 Masters Students, 25 postdoctoral students and several thousand industry professionals and teachers through continuing education workshops. He has filed for 5 patents, executed more than 120 consulting projects and 2 start-up companies to his credit.  He is the Fellow of American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), Fellow of Institution of Civil Engineers (United Kingdom), Diplomat of Geotechnical Engineering (D.GE.) from the Academy of Geo-Professionals, ASCE; Fellow of IGS, ISET, ISES and many other Societies in India and abroad. He is also a certified professional engineer and chartered engineer from IE.