VITAE 1. Name and Address: AMBARISH GHOSH Department of Civil Engineering Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur Howrah – 711 103, INDIA 2. e-mail / Phone/ Fax No.: [email protected] / 2668 6790 (R)/ 09831286527(M) / [email protected] 2668 5186 (FAX) 3. Date of birth: January Seven, Nineteen Hundred and Sixty Eight 4. Educational Qualification: (a) B. E. (Civil Engg.) First Class First, North Bengal University, 1990 (b) M. Tech. (SMFE), IIT Kharagpur, 1992 (c) Ph. D. (Environmental Geotechnics), IIT Kharagpur, 1996 5. Area of Specialization – Geotechnical Engineering 6. Awards University Medal from North Bengal University, University Topper among the students of all the discipline in the year 1990. 7. Present Position: Professor of Civil Engineering, IIESTS Head, School of Disaster Mitigation Engineering, IIESTS 8. Work Experience Teaching (a) Professor of Civil Engg., IIESTS, from August 2008 - till date (b) Assistant Professor of Civil Engg., IIESTS, from August 2000 - August 2008 (c) Lecturer in Civil Engg., IIESTS, from October 1996 to August 2000 1 9. Subject Teaching at Undergraduate level and Post graduate level Course No. & Title Level (UG /PG) (CE/P/GT/501) Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering PG (CE/P/GT/502) Environmental Geotechnics PG (CE/N/G-101) Advanced Soil Mechanics –I PG (CE/N/G-205) Advanced Soil Mechanics –II PG (CE 1033) Ground Improvement Techniques PG (CE/N/G-403) Ground Improvement Techniques PG (CE – 70X) Disaster Mitigation UG (CE – 804/7) Environmental Geotechnics UG (CE 703) Foundation Engineering UG (CE 708) Foundation Engineering Sessional UG (CE 803/2) Geotechnical Investigation and Practices (Elective I) UG (CE 401) Surveying - II UG (CE 503) Surveying - III UG (CE 403) Planning Drawing & Estimation UG (CE 603) Soil Mechanics – II UG (CE 608) Soil Mechanics Laboratory UG (CE 405) Planning Drawing & Estimation (Sessional) UG (CE 808) Structural Engineering Laboratory UG (CE 404) Concrete Technology Laboratory UG (CE 201) Introduction to Computing UG (CE X) Transportation Engineering Laboratory UG 10. Membership of Professional Bodies Life Member of Indian Geotechnical Society Fellow of Institute of Engineers (I) 11. Research Interest (a) Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering • Study on Microzonation and remediation of liquefaction • Study on dynamic soil structure interaction problems • Study on construction Induced vibration and remediation 2 • Study on deep foundation subjected to seismic loading (b) Utilization of Solid Waste in Civil Engineering Applications • Environmental Aspects of Fly Ash Utilization • Geotechnical Aspects of Fly Ash Utilization • Design and Construction of roads with soil/solid waste • Modelling for Utilization of Stabilized Fly Ash in Waste Containment Liner Application • Use of Geocomposites for Liner Application • Stabilization of Sludges Containing Toxic Metals (c) Ground Improvement Techniques • Remediation for Contaminated Soil • Use of Geotextiles to Solve Geotechnical Engineering Problems • Ground Improvement for Liquefaction Hazard Mitigation • Use of Geotubes in Civil Engineering Applications (d) Numerical Modelling for Geotechnical Engineering Problems 12. Reviewer of Journals Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering, ASCE Canadian Geotechnical Journal, Canada Soils and Foundations, Japanese Geotechnical Society Geotextiles and Geomembranes, Elsevier Publisher, UK Journal of Geosynthetics International Journal of Hazardous Materials, Elsevier Publisher, UK Journal of Geotechnical and Geological Engineering, Springer Publisher, Netherlands Indian Geotechnical Journal, INDIA Journal of Institute of Engineers, INDIA 3 13. PhD and PG thesis guidance Status Sl. [Awarded (with date ) / Name of Student(s) Title of the Dissertation(s) No. Submitted (with date) / ongoing] Engineering Characteristics of Pond Ash and 1 Ashis Kumar Bera Bearing Capacity of Footing on Unreinforced and Awarded on December 12,2005 Reinforced Pond Ash Geotechnical Properties of Class F Fly Ash Mixed 2 Sujit Kumar Pal with Montmorillonite Clay and Development of Award on January 25,2010 Correlations for Design Parameters Analysis of Contaminant Migration Through Porous 3 Ritwik Chakraborty Media Using FDM and Development of Design Award on December 22, 2012 Charts for Liner Geometric Design and Economics of Antiglare Awarded on November 12,2014 4 Swapan Kumar Bagui Screen Barrier Use of Biological Resources in Biodiversity Region Award on September 28, 2015 5 Swati Saha of Sundarban West Bengal- Sustainable or Not Application of fly ash and Geotextiles in Road 6 Ashimanta Sengupta Pavement for Improvement of Bearing Ratio of Soft Award on July 13, 2017 Soil Subgrade Site Characterization vis-à-vis Surface Consistent 7 Nishtha Srivastava Seismic Hazard Microzonation for the city of Awarded on January 08, 2018 Kolkata, India Dynamic Soil Structure Interaction and some Awarded on September 24, 8 Indrajit Chowdhury Solutions in Elastic Domain under Earthquake Force 2018 Analysis of River Bank Erosion and Development of Awarded 01.08.2019 9 Suipia Khatun Protective Measure Electrokinetic Remediation of Soil Contaminated Awarded 02.08.2019 10 Rupa Chakrabarty with Heavy Metals Estuarine and River Management Through Symbiosis of Engineering Interference (Dredging, Ongoing 11 Bikas Chowdhury River Training) and Remote Sensing with Reference to Hugli Estuary Development of Road Materials for Sub Grade and Ongoing 12 Champakali Das Sub Base using Brahmaputra River Bed Materials Stability Analysis of Submerged Slope in Dredged 13 Ranjan Mahapatra Channel and Prediction of Navigable Depth in Ongoing Estuarine Environment Study on Diaphragm Walls Under Static and Ongoing 14 Sanjib Das Dynamic Loading 15 Tanumaya Mitra Behaviour of Pile Subjected Seismic Loading Ongoing Liquefaction Analysis and Development of Ongoing 16 Vinoth. B Mitigation Strategy using Ground Improvement 17 Loknath Das Prediction of Surface Settlement due to Tunneling Ongoing 18 4 (a) Details of Master Students Guided and Ongoing ( 60 completed) Sl. Name of Student(s) Project Title Year of Submission No. A study on construction induced 1 Ritankar Saha ground vibration due to impact pile 2019 driving 2 Suprabhat Shaw Piled Raft Foundation 2019 Electro kinetic remediation of 3 Adamya Chatterjee 2018 Contaminated site 4 Swarnendu Mondal Slope stability analysis 2018 Study on wave propagation on 5 Vinoth B 2017 Construction Induced Vibration Experimental study on Under- 6 P. Sashidhar 2017 reamed Piled Raft Foundation 7 Tanumaya Mitra, Liquefaction Hazard Mitigation 2016 Subhaprasad Chakraborty 8 Construction Induced Vibrations 2016 Stability of rock slope in 9 Sudip Kumar Koley underground excavation by rock 2016 bolting Kaushik Bhattacharya 10 Pile Raft Foundation 2016 Subhaprasad Chakraborty, 11 Construction Induced Vibrations 2016 12 Rituparna Dey Study on the behavior of pile raft 2015 foundation in cohesive soil Debarshi Das Soil stratification of Kolkata, 13 Liquefaction Analysis and Hazard 2015 Mitigation Mousumi Kundu Study on the Effect of Hydraulic 14 Factors Causing Failure of Earthen 2015 Levees Raghu Nath Chakrabarty Study of Failure of Earthen Levee 15 2015 Due to Seepage Development Strategy for Earthen 16 Prodyot Kumar Manna 2015 Environment 5 Maitrayee Sur Numerical Modelling and 17 Parametric Study of Deep 2014 Excavation Sanghati Mutsuddi Design and Analysis of 18 2014 Prefabricated Vertical Drain Surya Kanta Prusty Heavy Metal Extraction from 19 Contaminated Clayey Soil by 2014 Electro kinetic Cell Arup Goswami 20 Analysis of Piled Raft Foundation 2014 Somnath Kundu Liquefaction Hazard Mitigation 21 2014 using Stone Column Swarup Dandapat Preloading and prefabricated 22 Vertical Drain for consolidation of 2013 soft clay Kausik Bera Evaluation of Liquefaction based 23 on SPT value and Shear wave 2013 velocity Sayantan Chakraborty Isolation of Construction Induced 24 2013 Vibration Anuradha CHakraborty Analysis of Diaphragm Embedded 25 in Clayey Soil Using Finite 2013 Element Based Software Ground Vibration due to Vibratory 26 Ujwal Mandal 2013 Type Driving of Sheet Piles Electro kinetic Remediation of Soil 27 Dipa Mukhopadhyay Contaminated with Organic 2013 Compound Analysis and Design of Geotextile Sudhanwa Pal 28 Tubes for Civil Engineering 2012 Applications, , Susmita Majumder Development of Site-Specific 29 2012 Response Spectra Mahadeb Das Heavy Metal Extraction from the 30 Contaminated Soil by Electro 2012 kinetic Cell, Avisek Dey Study on Construction Induced 31 2012 Vibration and Remediation Debasish Saha Ground Improvement for 32 2011 Liquefaction Hazard Mitigation Kanchan Kumar Karak Assessment of Liquefaction for 33 2011 Seismic Micro zonation, 6 Champakali Das Analysis and Design of Waste 34 2011 Containment Liner, Sumit Guha 35 Study on Deep Excavation, 2010 Effects of Ground Improvement on 36 Subhas Ranjan Ghosh 2010 Dynamic Properties of Soils, Experimental studies on dynamic 37 Sashanka Sekhar Sarkar 2009 properties of soils Hydrodynamic Design Aspects of 38 Ranjan Mahapatra 2008 Geotextile Effect of Ground Improvement on 39 Soumya Roy Slope Stabilization under Static 2008 and Dynamic Loading, Characteristics and Remediation of 40 Siva Prasad Thylamu 2007 Contaminated Soils Evaluation of Liquefaction 41 Sumit Ghosh Potential of Soil by Down 2007 Borehole Method, Debabrata Sardar Analysis and Design of Geotubes 42 2007 in Civil Engineering Applications Debasish Ghosh 43 Application of Pond Ash in Roads 2006 Study on the Application of Fly 44 Utpal Dey ash