Prof. Deepankar Choudhury is Institute Chair Professor of Civil Engineering department at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, Mumbai, India and Adjunct Professor of Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR) of CSIR laboratories (connected to CSIR-CBRI Roorkee) of India. Always first class first rank holder and Gold Medalist throughout academics in BE (Gold Medalist) from Jadavpur University Kolkata, India in 1997, ME (Gold Medalist) from IISc Bangalore, India in 2000 and PhD (with Best PhD Thesis Award from Indian Geotechnical Society for years 2001 and 2002) from IISc Bangalore, India in 2002, Prof. Choudhury also worked as a faculty at IIT Kanpur, new IITs at Gandhinagar and Dharwad (both on deputation from IIT-B) and as a Visiting Fellow/Faculty at NUS Singapore, UoW Australia, UC Berkeley USA, Kagoshima Univ. Japan, TU Darmstadt Germany and Incheon National Univ. South Korea. Prof. Choudhury is the only Geotechnical Engineer of India who is an elected Fellow (FNASc) of the oldest Science Academy of India, viz. The National Academy of Sciences, India.Dr. El-Zahaby graduated from the Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University (Egypt) in 1985 with honors. He obtained his M.Sc. from Cairo University in 1989 and his Ph.D. from Civil Engineering Department in North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC (USA) in 1995. Upon graduation, he joined the Housing and Building National Research Center (HBRC) as a research assistant and was promoted in different positions. He is currently the HBRC Chairman. Dr. El-Zahaby is the recipient of the 2013 ICC Global Award of Atlantic City, NJ (USA) and has been a geotechnical consultant for almost 30 years. He is currently serving as an assessor for geotechnical consultants in Egypt. Dr. El-Zahaby is also the Principal Investigator of a research project funded by the STDF (Egypt) and NSF (USA) on the assessment of seismic hazards on wind turbines. Professor Emeritus of Civil Engineering at the University of California at Davis(UCD) and independent consulting geotechnical engineer, currently residing in Santa Fe, New Mexico,USA. His areas of teaching, research and practice are: geotechnical earthquake engineering; soil mechanics and foundation engineering; earthfill and rockfill dam engineering; and numerical modeling. He joined the faculty at UCD in 1989 following 20 years at Woodward-Clyde Consultants in San Francisco, Santa Ana and Oakland where he was a senior Principal. He was a member of the teaching and research staff of the geotechnical engineering group at the University of California at Berkeley from 1967 through 1975. He retired from the faculty position at UCD in July 2004.

• Effect of embedment on dynamic response of block foundation under coupled vibration.- The liquefaction potential of sandy silt layers using the correlation between penetrometer test and spt test.- Seismic soil structure interaction analysis of rigid piled isolated footing for mid rise building in a weak soil.- Lateral resistance of steel pipe pile with wings by static cyclic loading tests.- Reinforced embankments on soft soil, focus on lateral spreading.- Experimental study on lateral resistance of steel pipe pile with wings using the new composite geo-material with magnesium acrylate.- Vibration isolation of foundation using hdpe and natural geocells - a review.- Pseudo-dynamic approach to analyse the effect of soil amplification in the calculation of seismic active earth pressure distribution behind the inclined retaining wall for inclined c-φ soil backfill.- Large scale geotechnical shake table testing at the university of california san diego.- Response of a 850 kw wind turbine including soil-structure interaction during seismic excitation.- Effect of gradation on the dynamic response of sands.- Dynamic properties of surface liquefied site silty-sand of tripura, india.- Effect of width variation of liquefiable sand lens on surface settlement due to shallow tunnelling.- Liquefaction potential analysis and numerical modeling - container terminal of algiers port.- Research on impact vibration test for port structure in Vietnam.- Cyclic thermal effects on soil structure interaction in case of energy piles.- Probabilistic analysis of buried pipeline response subjected to fault crossing.