ADVISORY BOARD

Dr. R.K. Bhandari
Former Director at UN-Habitat

Professor Dilanthi Amaratunga
Head, Global Disaster Resilience Centre, Professor of Disaster Risk Reduction and Management at the University of Huddersfield, Chair of the United Nations Working Group on Words into action on Accountability and Governance. Member of the Steering Committee of the UNISDR "Making Cities Resilient" Campaign.

Prof. T.G. Sitharam
President International Association for Coastal Reservoir Research (IACRR), President Indian Society of Earthquake Technology (ISET)& Director IIT Guwahati

Dr. Rajib Shaw
Chair, UN ISDR STG

Prof. Charles Wang Wai Ng
President of the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE)

Prof. G.L. Sivakumar Babu
President Indian Geotechnical Society

Prof. Timothy D. Stark,
Professor, University of Illinois & Chair, EDS Technical Committee, ASCE Geo-Institute

Shri U. P. Singh IAS
Secretary, Department of Water Resources, Rural Development, & GR, Govt. of India

Dr. Nilesh Desai
President Indian Society of Remote Sensing

Prof. M.L. Kansal
Executive Vice President Indian Water Resournces Society

Dr. Giriraj Amarnath
Research Group Leader: Water Risks to Development and Resilience (WRDR), International Water Management Institute (IWMI), Sri Lanka

Shri. G.V.V. Sarma, IAS
Member Secretary, National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), Government of India

Dr. Amod Mani Dixit
Chairperson, Asian Disaster Reduction and Response Network (ADRRN)

Major General Manoj Kumar Bindal
Executive Director, National Institute of Disaster Management, Govt of India

Program Chairs
Dr. Arpita Mondal, IIT Bombay
Dr. Indrajit Pal, AIT Bangkok
Dr. Chian Siau Chen, NUS Singapore

Dr. Mizanur Rahman, University of South Australia (Expertise: Liquefaction)

Dr. Sanjay Nimbalkar, University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia (Expertise: Soil Dynamics, Transportation Geotechnics, Ground Improvement)

Dr. Athanasios Sfetsos, NCSR Demokritos (Expertise: Critical Infrastructures, Climate Change, Risk and Resilience)

Dr. Manoj Samuel, Central Institute of Fisheries and Technology, Cochin (Expertise: Watershed Management, Environmental modeling and assessment)

Dr. G.P. Ganapathy, Director, Center for Disaster Mitigation and Management, VIT (Expertise: GIS, Landslides, Earthquakes)

Dr. Naveen James, Head, Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Ropar (Expertise: Microzonation, Landslides, Liquefaction)

Dr. Babloo Chaudhary, NITK Surathkal (Expertise: Geo-Disaster Mitigation, Earthquakes))

Dr. Arvind Kumar Jha, IIT Patna (Expertise: Geoenvironmental Engineering)

Dr. Vinoth Srinivasan, NITK Surathkal (Expertise: Rock mechanics, Landslides)

Dr. Md Nazirul Islam Sarker, Neijiang Normal University (Expertise: flood risk assessment, riverbank erosion, coastal livelihood)

Dr. Subramaniam Neelamani, Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research, Kuwait (Expertise: Coastal disasters and mitigations)

Dr. Abhishek A Pathak, Dayanand Sagar College of Engineering, Bangalore (Expertise: Drought, Hydro-Climatic extremes)

Dr. Magudeaswaran Palanisamy, Head, Civil Engineering, Adithya Institute of Technology (Expertise: Earthquake, structural Engineering)

Dr. Ghanshyam Barman, UKA TARSADIA UNIVERSITY (Expertise: INDUSTRIAL DISASTER)

Dr. Manoranjan Samal, Deputy Director (CDC&FD), DTE&T, Odisha (Expertise: Earthquakes)

Dr. Vikas Kumar, Central University of Haryana (Expertise: Soil- Structure interaction, neural modeling)

Mr. Pravin Kolhe, Superintending Engineer, Water Resources Department, Government of Maharashtra (Expertise: Floods)

Dr. Sri Kalyana Rama Jyosyula, Professor, Vignana Bharathi Institute of Technology (Expertise: Earthquakes)

Dr. Jagadish Vengala, Prasad V Potluri Siddhartha Institute of technology (Expertise: Earthquakes)

Dr. A. D. Prasad, National Institute of Technology Raipur (Expertise: Remote sensing and GIS)

Dr. Chandra Bogireddy, Vardhaman College of Engineering, Hyderabad (Expertise: Earthquakes. Liquefaction)

Dr. Thota Sivasankar, NIIT University (Expertise: Remote Sensing and GIS)

Dr. Sandeep Bhardwaj, CCS Haryana Agricultural University (Expertise: Landslides)

Dr. Anil Cherian, Strainstall Middle East (Jamesfisher Group, UK) (Expertise: Dynamic, Static and Structural monitoring)

Dr. Pradeep Muley, Madan Mohan Malaviya University of Technology, Gorakhpur (Expertise: Liquefaction, Soil Dynamics)

Dr. Muhamed Safeer Pandikkadavath, National Institute of Technology Calicut, Kozhikode, Kerala, India (Expertise: Earthquakes (Structural Engineering))

Dr. Rajeev Garg, Chief Scientist, CSIR-CRRI (Expertise: Earthquake, bridge, failure, cyclone, wind)

Dr. Saif Alzabeebee, University of Al-Qadisiyah (Expertise: Earthquake Engineering, Artificial intelligence in natural hazards )

Dr. CR Parthasarathy, Managing Director, Sarathy Geotech and Engg Services Pvt Ltd (Expertise: Landslide)

Dr. Jyotima Kanaujia Indian Institute of Geomagnetism, Mumbai (Expertise: Earthquakes, Seismology)

Dr. Ramkrishnan R, Amrita Vishwavidyapeetham Coimbatore (Expertise: Seismic Hazards, Slope Stability)

Dr. B.Narendra Kumar VNR Vignana Jyothi Institute of Engineering & Technology (Expertise: Corrosion)

Dr. Ashim Sattar University of Dayton (Expertise: Glacial lake outburst flood)

Dr. Pritam Hait Vignan's Institute of Information Technology (Expertise: Earthquakes)

Dr. Naser Ebadati Islamic Azad University (Expertise: Earthquakes, Landslides)

Dr. Saraswathi.K Hindusthan College of Engineering and Technology (Expertise: Earthquakes)

Dr. PL. Meyyappan Kalasalingam Academy of Research and Education (Expertise: Tsunami)

Dr. Dr. R. Sridhar SJB institute of technology (Expertise: Earthuakes, Landslides)

Dr. Shantharam Patil Manipal School of Architecture & Planning, MIT, MAHE, Manipal (Expertise: Earthquae resstant desgn)

Mr. Bhushan M. Rasinghani, Self employed (Consultancy) (Expertise: Earthuake resistant design)

Dr. Dr. Adarsh S TKM College of Engineering Kollam (Expertise: Floods and Droughts)

Mr. Muhammad Awais Hussain Zhejiang University Hangzhou China (Expertise: Landslides)

Dr. Isabela Beatriz Rufato Machado Universidad de Salamanca (Expertise: Flood resilience)

Dr. Sakkeri Ramya School of Planning and Architecture, Delhi (Expertise: Sustainable cities)

M.Sc. Julio Montenegro Gambini - National University of Engineering (UNI - GMMNS), Peru (Expertise: Floods)

Dr. Thanh Quang Khai LAM Mien Tay Construction University, Vietnam (Expertise: Structures)

Dr. Venkadesh Samykannu Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (Expertise: Drought monitoring)

Bojan Ðurin, Department of Civil Engineering, University North (Expertise: Hydrology)

Thi My Dung DO, Mien Tay Construction University, Vietnam(Expertise: Construction)

Tanmoy Konar, Executive Engineer, West Bengal Police Housing and Infrastructure Development Corporation Limited(Expertise: Earthquake Engineering, Vibration)

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