Faculty

Geotechnical Engineering Laboratory

Department Of Civil Engineering

Indian Institute Of Technology Kanpur

Faculty

Developed by Saurav Kumar Sah, Swaraj Chowdhury, Siddhant Singh,Rakesh Bhatt and Gowtham G

	Dr. Nihar Ranjan Patra (Since 2003) Professor Room: FB-316, Faculty Building, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Kanpur E-mail: nrpatra@iitk.ac.in Phone: +91-512-2597623 (O) Fax: +91-512-2597395 Home page: http://home.iitk.ac.in/~nrpatra/ Research Interest Pile foundations Soil structure interaction and ground engineering Soil arching Soil liquefaction Recycled materials Field instrumentation
	Dr. Priyanka Ghosh (Since 2007) Professor Room: FB-309, Faculty Building, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Kanpur. E-mail: priyog@iitk.ac.in Phone: +91-512-2597022 (O) Fax: +91-512-2597395 Home Page: http://home.iitk.ac.in/~priyog/ Research Interest Bearing capacity of foundations Method of characteristics Upper bound limit analysis Retaining walls and earth pressure theory Pullout resistance of anchors
	Dr. Prishati Raychowdhury (Since 2009) Professor Room: FB-319, Faculty Building, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Kanpur. E-mail:prishati@iitk.ac.in Phone: +91-512-259 7667(O) Home Page:http://home.iitk.ac.in/~prishati/ Research Interest Soil dynamics Geotechnical earthquake engineering Seismic soil-structure interaction
	Dr. Rajesh Sathiyamoorthy (Since 2011) Professor Room: FB-309, Faculty Building, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Kanpur E-mail:hsrajesh@iitk.ac.in Phone: 91-512-2596054 (O) Homepage:https://home.iitk.ac.in/~hsrajesh/ Research Interest Numerical and Physical Modelling Technique Environmental Geotechnologgy Ground Improvement Techniques Unsaturated and Fundamental Soil Mechanics Remote sensing and GIS applications in Geotechnical Engineering
	Dr. Arghya Das (Since 2014) Associate Professor Room: FB 304, Faculty Building, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Kanpur E-mail: arghya@iitk.ac.in Phone: 91-512-2596978 (O) Home page : http://home.iitk.ac.in/~arghya/index.htm Research Interest Constitutive modeling of geomaterials Micromechanics of granular materials Bifurcation & instability analysis in geomaterials Numerical modeling in geotechnical engineering Physical modeling in geotechnical engineering
	Dr. Gaurav Tiwari (Since 2019) Assistant Professor Room: WLE-302A, Western Lab Extension Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Kanpur E-mail: gauravt@iitk.ac.in Phone: 91-512-2592060 (O) Home page: Research Interest Rock Mechanics Experimental study on late dependence of rock joint strength and stability analysis of rock slopes and tunnel
	Dr. Jagdish Prasad Sahoo (Since 2019) Associate Professor Room: Room no. 3, Block 'C', Old SAC Building Email: jpsahoo@iitk.ac.in Tel: 0512-259-2147 (O) Web: http://www.iitk.ac.in/new/jagdish-prasad-sahoo Research Interest: Foundation Engineering Reinforced earth structures Stability of tunnels Underground openings and slopes Pavement geotechnics Strength behavior of rocks
	Dr. Bipin Kumar Gupta (Since 2019) Assistant Professor Motwani Building – Room no: MB-608 Email: bkgupta@iitk.ac.in Tel: 0512-259-2143 Web: http://www.iitk.ac.in/new/bipin-kumar-gupta Research Interest: Foundations for Offshore Wind Turbines Soil-structure interaction analysis and design Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics
	Dr. Partha Narayan Mishra (Since 2022) Assistant Professor Room no: WLE-303A, , Western Lab Extension Email: pnmishra@iitk.ac.in Tel: 0512-259-2360 Web: https://home.iitk.ac.in/~pnmishra/ Research Interest: Measurement and monitoring of soil properties using electromagnetic methods. Biomediated and bioinspired geoenvironmental engineering. Engineering behaviour of unsaturated soils. Geotechnics of tailings and industrial wastes.