Awards and Recognitions

International

1. Council Member, International Geosynthetics Society, 2023-24

2. Distinguished Service Medal, Region 10 ASCE Award 2021

3. Delivered invited lecture in International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ICSMGE 2017) in Seoul on Stress deformation characteristics of Municipal Solid Waste and their influence in landfill design.

4. John Booker Medal from International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics (IACMAG), USA “For excellent contributions in the application of  probabilistic methods in  geotechnical engineering practice, geomechanics, ground improvement and forensic geotechnical engineering" for the year 2017.

5. Member of the Scientific Committee for International School on “LAndslide RiskAssessment and Mitigation for 2018-2024, University of Salerno, Italy

6. Excellent Contributions Award of International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics (IACMAG), USA "for scientific contributions in the application of probabilistic methods in geotechnical engineering practice, geomechanics, constitutive modeling and ground improvement”. Award was presented in Melbourne in the year 2010.

7. Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship (Visiting Scientist, Geotechnical Institute, Landesgewerbeanstalt Bayern, Nuremberg) for the year 1999-2000.

8. Visiting Scholar, Purdue University, West Lafayette IN USA during 1995-96.

ASCE (American Society of Civil Engineers) Best Paper Awards

1. Wesley W. Horner Award for the paper on “Risk and Reliability Analysis of Multi Barrier System for Near Surface Disposal Facilities” by  S.Sujitha, K.Geetha Manjari, Sampurna Datta & G.L. Sivakumar Babu (2015). Journal of Hazardous, Toxic and Radioactive waste, ASCE , 2016, 20(2): 04015014

2. Best Theoretical Oriented Paper Award of the EWRI (Environmental and Water Resources Institute, USA) -ASCE for 2015 for the paper G L Sivakumar Babu, Reddy Krishna, R, Amit Srivatsava (2014) Influence of Spatially Variable Geotechnical Properties of MSW on Stability of Landfill Slopes; Journal of Hazardous, Toxic, and Radioactive Waste, ASCE, 18(1), 27–37.

3. Best paper award of International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics (IACMAG) USA for the paper G L Sivakumar Babu and B. Munwar Basha (2008). Optimum design of cantilever retaining walls using target reliability approach. International Journal of Geomechanics, Journal of American Society for Civil Engineers (ASCE), 8(4): 240-252.

4. Best paper award of International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics (IACMAG) USA for the paper Sumanta Haldar and G. L. Sivakumar Babu (2010) Failure Mechanisms of Pile Foundations in Liquefiable Soil: Parametric Study published in International Journal of Geomechanics, ASCE , 10(2).74-84.

5. Best Theoretical Oriented Paper Award of the EWRI (Environmental and Water Resources Institute, USA) -ASCE for 2011 for the paper G L Sivakumar Babu, Reddy Krishna, R, Sandeep Kumar Chouksey and Hanumanth Kulkarni (2010) Prediction of Long-Term Municipal Solid Waste Landfill Settlement Using Constitutive Model. Practice Periodical of Hazardous, Toxic, and Radioactive Waste Management, ASCE, Vol.14 (2).139-150.

National

1. Victor De Mello Goa lecture on climate resilient design and rehabilitation of embankment structures, IGS- Goa Chapter and Goa Engineering college 29th March 2025. 

2. Institute Colloquium on sustainable Geotechnics on  06th Feb. 2025, IIT Mandi

3. Prof. T S Nagaraj memorial lecture on Reliability analysis of unsaturated embankments”. Bangalore IGS chapter,  Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 11 Nov 2024

4. Praphulla Kumar Memorial Lecture on the role of climate change, risk assessment and mitigation in embankments, IGS- Kochi Chapter, 2024 19th of October 2024

5. 2023:  IGS Annual lecture on Reliability and Risk Analysis in Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering at IIT Roorkee during Indian Geotechnical Conference December 2023

6. 2022: Honorary Fellow of Indian Geotechnical Society.

7. 2022: IGS Kueckelmann Award 2020-2021 for the excellent contributions in Geotechnical Engineering.

8. 2020: Delivered Amulya and Vimala Reddy Lecture Award, in the field of Sustainable Development, for the year 2020.Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

9. 2019:IGS-ONGC Biennial Prize for the Best Paper on “Marine Geotechnical Engineering” for the years 2018-2019

10. 2015:Nawab Zain Yar Jung Bahadur Memorial Prize of the Institution of Engineers, India for the paper Methane Production Quantification and Energy Estimation for Bangalore Municipal Solid Waste’ (published in the Series ‘A’ Journal of IEI, Vol. 95, Issue 1)

11. 2015: Indian Roads Congress Medal and Certificate in the name of Bihar PWD medal for paper published in IRC Journal (vol 75, Part I) paper No 607, Critical appraisal of correlations between CBR and Subgrade modulus, Jan.-March 2014, 16-24.

12. 2015: IGS-Dr. B.B. Rai - Shri S.N. Gupta Biennial Award of Indian Geotechnical Society  for the best paper on “Earth and Earth Retaining Structures” for Reliability Based LRFD Approach for External Stability of Reinforced Soil Walls” by B. Munwar Basha and G.L.S. Babu published in the Indian Geotechnical Journal, Vol. 43, Issue 4, October-December 2013 (pp.292-302)

13. 2011: IGS-Dr. B.B. Rai – S.N. Gupta Biennial Award of Indian Geotechnical Society  for the best paper on “Earth and Earth Retaining Structures Appraisal of Soil Nailing Design” published in the Indian Geotechnical Journal, Vol.39, No.1, January 2009 (pp.81-95)

14. 2010: IGS-AFCONS Biennial Award for the best paper on “Case Histories” on Back Analysis of the Chang Dam Section in the Kachchh Region of Gujarat, India” published in the Proceedings of 17 ICSMGE-2009, Alaxendria, Egypt.

15. 2008: IGS- Smt. Indra Joshi Biennial Best paper ward of the Indian Geotechnical Society, (IGS) for the paper “underpass at Airforce Station, Yelahanka, Bangalore.

16. 2004: B N Gupta Best paper award for the paper on shallow foundations for the paper Reliability analysis of bearing capacity of shallow foundations, published in the proceedings of IGC-2003.

17. 1996: IGS-AIMIL Annual Prize for the best paper on Instrumentation for the paper Instrumentation, and Monitoring of Slope Movements at        Powari landslide, Proc. of IGC - 95.

18. BOYSCAST Fellowship for one year by the Department of Science and  Technology, Government of India to conduct research at Purdue University, U.S.A.,  1994.

19. Represented India at II Young Asian Geotechnical Engineers’ Conference, 1994 at Bangkok

20. The best Doctoral thesis in Geotechnical Engineering in India for the year 1991, by the Indian Geotechnical Society, New Delhi.Young Engineer Prize for the year 1993, by Central Board of Irrigation and Power, Ministry of Water Resources, New Delhi.

21. Committee Member, Special Committee on suggestion of appropriate remedial measures for Tungabhadra Left Bank Canal Government of Karnataka 2005.

22. T Narayana Reddy Memorial Lecture on Geotechnics for Infrastructure Improvement, Institution of Engineers (India), Tirupati, 27 November 2008

23. Certificate of Merit for the paper Prediction of engineering behaviour of tropical residual soils during 56th annual session from the CBI &P, New Delhi (1989).

Editorial Assignments

1. Editorial Editor-in Chief, Indian Geotechnical Journal, Springer Nature. (from 2010-16)

2. Associate Editor, Journal of Hazardous, Toxic, and Radioactive Waste,  Publication of American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

3. Associate Editor of ASCE International Journal of Geomechanics, Publication of American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

4. Editorial Board Member, International Journal of Georisk -Assessment and Management of Risk for Engineered Systems and Geohazards, Taylor & Francis Group

5. Editorial Board Member, Geosynthetics International, Journal of Institution of Civil Engineers, UK published by Thomas Telford publishers

6. Editorial Board Member, Ground Improvement Journal, Journal of Institution of Civil Engineers, UK published by Thomas Telford publishers (2007-2013)

7. Editorial Board Member, International Journal Of Systems Assurance Engineering And Management, Springer Publications

8. Guest Editor, Special issue on Risk assessment in Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Practice Georisk -Assessment and Management of Risk for Engineered Systems and Geohazards, Taylor & Francis publishers, London.

9. Guest Editor, ASCE's Journal of Hazardous, Toxic and Radioactive Waste (ASCE-JHTRW) titled "perspectives in hazardous and nuclear waste disposal- analysis, design and practice

10. Board Member, Editorial Board Member of The Open Transportation Journal Bentham Science Publishers

11. Editorial Board Member, Operational Research Society of India (ORSI) 2009-2010

Technical Committees and Professional Service

1. Chairman, International Technical Committee (TC 302) on Forensic Geotechnical Engineering (FGE), of International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE) 2013-2017 and 2017-2021

2. Secretary, International Technical Committee (TC 302 and TC 40) on Forensic Geotechnical Engineering (FGE), a body of International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE) for the terms 2005-2008 (TC-40) and 2009-2013.

3. Member, International Technical Committee  (TC-32) on Risk assessment in Geotechnical Engineering, a body of International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE) for 1997-2001 and 2001-2005.

4. Member, Scientific Committee, 3rd International Symposium on Geotechnical Safety and Risk (ISGSR2011), 2, 3 June 2011.Munich.

5. Member, Scientific Committee, 5th Asian-Pacific Symposium on Structural Reliability and its Applications (APSSRA 2012) “Sustainable Civil Infrastructures – Hazards, Risk, Uncertainty” May 23-25, 2012, Singapore.