Dr. Amit Srivastava
Dr. Amit Srivastava did his Undergraduation (B.E.) from University of Roorkee (now IIT Roorkee), and Post Graduation (M.E.) as well as Ph.D from IISc, Bangalore. He has 15+ years of post PhD teaching and research experience, 4 years of industry experience after graduation, 1.5 years research experience after post graduation and 4 years of research experience during PhD. His area of research interest is Geotechnical Engineering, a branch of Civil Engineering and his PhD work was on the topic “Risk Analysis of Earth Dams under Static and Earthquake Loading conditions”.
He has total 80+ Google scholar cited International / National Journal publications in various refereed journals like ASCE, Canadian Geotechnical Journal, Engineering Geology, GeoRisk etc., including peer reviewed conference proceeding papers. Out of these publications, 72 documents are Scopus indexed and 45 are in WoS. He has presented his work on various national/international platforms. He is also member of various national and international societies, such as, Fellow - Institution of Engineers (India), Indian Geotechnical Society, ISSMGE, ASCE, International Geosynthetic Society and International Tsunami Society.
He has also bagged 3 awards (Prof. C.S. Desai Biennial Award – 2014; IGS-AFCONS Biennial Award – 2010; IGS-Smt. Indra Joshi Biennial Award – 2008) given by Indian Geotechnical Society and 1 international award from ASCE (EWRI Best Paper Award – 2015). In the year 2019, he was presented research appreciation award by the university management during Teacher’s day event.
He has also contributed to various consultancy projects, such as, stability of slopes using soil nailing technique, vibration isolation system using open trench technique, deep excavation problems. He is well versed in using numerical packages (useful in geotechnical profession) like FLAC 2D & 3D, PLAXIS 2D & 3D, AUTOCAD.
Academic Qualifications
B.E. Civil Engineering
University of Roorkee
(Now IIT Roorkee)
M.E. Geotechnical Engineering
Indian Institute of Science,
IISc Bangalore
Ph.D. Civil Engineering
Indian Institute of Science,
IISc Bangalore
Particular | Profile Summary
| Particular | Profile |
|---|---|
| Current Role | Founder & Director, SHRI-VASTAV Consulting Private Limited |
| Core Specialization | Geotechnical Engineering; Risk & Reliability Analysis; Numerical Analysis; ISO/IEC 17025:2017 |
| Doctoral Qualification | PhD (2010), Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore |
| Postgraduate Qualification | M.E. (2002), Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore |
| Undergraduate Qualification | B.E. (1998), University of Roorkee (now IIT Roorkee) |
| Professional Experience | Over two decades across industry, research, teaching, consultancy and administration |
| GATE Achievement | AIR 14, GATE 2002 (99.81 percentile) |
| Research Output | 80+ publications reported; 72 Scopus; 45 Web of Science |
| Research Impact | Google Scholar: 2,172 citations; H-index 23; i10-index 35 |
| Professional Societies | IGS; ASCE/EWRI; ISSMGE; International Tsunami Society; ISRMTT; IEI |