Dr. Amarnath Hegde is working as an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Infrastructure Engineering IIT Dharwad. Currently, he is serving as Dean (Infrastructure, Planning & Support) at IIT Dharwad. Before joining IIT Dharwad, he worked as Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Patna. His research interest includes, Geotechnical Engineering, Ground Improvement and Computational Geotechnics.  Previously, Dr. Hegde has held short-term research positions at University of Milan Bicocca in Italy, UPC Barcelona Tech in Spain and National University of Singapore.  He has obtained his Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, in 2015.   Before Ph.D, he has also worked as a geotechnical Engineer in Keller Ground Engineering India Pvt. Ltd in Mumbai for two years.  He has completed his M. Tech from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay and B. Tech from BVBVET Hubli in Karnataka.  Dr. Hegde has published two books and more than 95 research papers in reputed International/national journals and conferences. He has guided 3 Ph.Ds and currently guiding 4 Ph.D students. He is a life member of several professional organizations, including ASCE, ISSMGE, IGS and International Geosynthetic Society.  Currently, Dr. Hegde is the nominated member of Technical Committees of  ISSMGE and ASCE. Dr. Hegde has featured in the list of top 2% scientists in the world as published by Stanford University consecutively for the last 3 years. He is also a recipient of several awards including IEI Young Engineer Award in civil engineering discipline. He is an active consulting Geotechnical Engineer and has successfully provided solutions to many challenging field problems. He is also an active reviewer for more than 25 reputed Journals in the field of Civil and Geotechnical Engineering.