Ashutosh Kumar

I am currently working as an Assistant Professor of Geotechnical Engineering in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Mandi (IIT Mandi), India. I have worked as a postdoctoral research associate at Durham University UK and I obtained PhD degree from IIT Bombay and am the recipient of the IIT Bombay Best PhD thesis award. I am the recipient of the Royal Society London, United Kingdom International Exchanges Award and IACMAG John Carter Award – 2022 from the International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics (IACMAG), AZ, USA. I am a DAAD fellowship awardee from Germany and also served as a 2016 DAAD Young Ambassador for DAAD India. I have experience working in multi-national teams through the Transport Africa project and Seismic safety of Kathmandu’s historic urban infrastructure investigating the causes of the collapse of UNESCO World Heritage sites in Nepal. I have published over 40 papers in various Journals of International repute and various conferences. My research encompasses highly relevant areas of civil engineering:(1) Soil-structure interaction (2) Unsaturated soil mechanics for pavements and landslides (3) Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering (4) Use of sensing techniques for geotechnical engineering applications.