Deepankar Choudhury

T. Kant Chair Professor and Head, Department of Civil Engineering

Deepankar Choudhury is the T. Kant Chair Professor (HAG) and Head of the Department of Civil Engineering at IIT Bombay, and has made significant contributions to geotechnical engineering. He previously taught at IIT Kanpur and helped mentor the new IITs in Gandhinagar and Dharwad, and has held visiting positions at institutions worldwide, including the National University of Singapore, the University of Wollongong in Australia and UC Berkeley in the USA. He is a Fellow of India's premier science and engineering academies and of international bodies such as the American Society of Civil Engineers and The World Academy of Sciences, and has received numerous awards, including the Prof. C. S. Desai Medal from IACMAG, USA. He is Chief Editor of the Indian Geotechnical Journal and has served on several editorial boards. His research in geotechnical earthquake engineering and sustainable foundation engineering is globally recognised; he has supervised 35 PhD theses and authored the textbook 'Foundation Systems for High-Rise Structures' and more than 310 technical publications. He is also involved in organising major national examinations in India and contributes to shaping civil engineering education. He currently chairs the Disaster Resilience and Capacity Building Committee of the State Disaster Management Authority of Maharashtra and is a member of the High-Rise Committee of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC).