Short CV

G L Sivakumar Babu completed Ph.D. (Geotechnical Engineering) in 1991 from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, after Master’s Degree (SMFE) in 1987 from  Anna University, Madras and  B.Tech. (Civil Engineering) in 1983 from Sri Venkateshwara University, Tirupati. India. He worked as Visiting Scholar during 1995 to 1996 in Civil and Environmental Engineering in Purdue University, Lafayette for a year and as Humboldt Fellow & Visiting Scientist, in Landesgewerbeanstalt Bayern (LGA) Nuremberg, Germany during 2000.He worked in Central Road Research Institute and International Airports Authority of India New Delhi during May 1992 to November 1996. He joined Indian Institute of Science in December 1996 as assistant Professor and became full professor in 2009 and currently Professor (HAG). He received  Amulya and Vimala Reddy Lecture Award in the Field of Sustainable Development from IISc and delivered a lecture on Sustainable Geotechnics during 2020.

His international recognitions are 1) the first person from Indian Geotechnical Society to give an invited lecture in International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering in 75 years of IGS and he presented it during ICSMGE (2017) in Seoul on the topic Role of Stress Deformation Behavior of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) in Landfill Design 2) John Booker Medal from International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics (IACMAG), USA  for the year 2017, 3) Member of the Scientific Committee for International School on “LAndslide RiskAssessment and Mitigation for 2018-2024, University of Salerno, Italy, 4) Excellent Contributions Award of International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics (IACMAG), USA  in the year 2010 and 5) Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship in 2000.  He received five best paper awards for the papers published in ASCE journals.

He served as President of Indian Geotechnical Society (IGS) during 2017-2020 and is an Honorary Fellow of Indian Geotechnical Society and received IGS Kuckelman Award 2020-2021 for the excellent contributions in Geotechnical Engineering. He delivered IGS annual lecture on Risk and Reliability analysis in Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering in IGC 2023 IIT Roorkee. He also received several awards for his work such as best PhD thesis in Geotechnical Engineering in India from Indian Geotechnical Society for the year 1992, DST BOYSACAST Fellowship, Young Engineer from Central Board of Irrigation and Power, New Delhi and seven best paper awards from Indian Geotechnical Society.

He served as the Chairman, International Technical Committee (TC-302) on Forensic Geotechnical Engineering (FGE) of International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE) for two terms (2013-2017 and 2017-2021; served as its secretary during 2005-2009 and 2009-2013. He conducted three international conferences on Forensic Geotechnical Engineering in 2010 and 2013, 2016 and special technical sessions in ARCs in Fukuoka & Taipei and ICSMGE 2017.He was a member in International Technical Committee (TC-32) on Risk assessment in Geotechnical Engineering during 1997-2001 and 2001-2005 and conducted an International Workshop on Risk assessment in Site Characterization and Geotechnical Design, (GEORISK 2004). He represented Indian Geotechnical Society as its representative in ISSMGE and ARC meetings from 2013 to 2020.

 He served as the Governor of Region 10, American Society of Civil Engineers from 2014 October to 2000, served as President, India Section from 2013 to 2014 and received Distinguished Service Medal, Region 10 ASCE Award 2021. He  served as Council Member, International Geosynthetics Society and is President of the India Chapter of  International Geosynthetics Society.

 He served as Editor-in-chief, Indian Geotechnical Journal for six years (2010-2016) and is Associate Editor of 1) Journal of Hazardous, Toxic, and Radioactive Waste, ASCE, 2) International Journal of Geomechanics, ASCE, Editorial Board member of  3) International Journal of  Georisk -Assessment and Management of Risk for Engineered Systems and Geohazards, Taylor & Francis Group, and 4) Geosynthetics International, Journal of Institution of Civil Engineers, UK.

His teaching and research activities include courses on Geomechanics, Soil investigations, risk and reliability applications in Civil Engineering, Pavement Engineering, Geosynthetics,  Ground Improvement and Geoenvironmental Engineering. He guided a number of students for research degrees (24 Ph.D and  5 M. Sc (Engg. Total 29) and wrote a book on soil reinforcement and geosynthetics, edited six books and proceedings and has several publications (International and national Journals about 200, International and national conf. more than 200  Total  over 400).