T. G. Sitharam

T. G. Sitharam
T. G. Sitharam
Director at Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati
	In office; 1 July 2019 – 22 November 2022
Preceded by	Gautam Biswas
Succeeded by	Prof. P. K. Iyer
Professor at Indian Institute of Science Bangalore
	In office; 28 June 2006 – present(on lien)
Chairman at CiSTUP
	In office; January 2009 – March 2014
Personal details
Born	Karnataka
Nationality	Indian
Residence(s)	Guwahati, India
Alma mater	Indian Institute of Science Bangalore; University of Waterloo
Profession	Professor; Author; Consultant
Known for	Rock mechanics; Earthquake engineering
Website	Official website

T. G. Sitharam is a civil engineer, professor at IISc Bangalore (on lien), former director at IIT Guwahati.Currently, he is serving as Chairman of the All India Council for Technical Education,(AICTE) from 1 December 2022 onwards.^[4]He is known for his works in the fields of rock mechanics, rock engineering and geotechnical earthquake engineering.^[5] He is an elected fellow of Indian Geotechnical Society, Institution of Engineers (India) and American Society of Civil Engineers.^[6]

He is currently serving as the editor-in-chief of Springer Transactions in Civil and Environmental Engineering and several other journals.^[7]

Awards and honors

S.P. Research Award (SAARC) (1998)^[6]
Sir C.V. Raman State Award for Young Scientists, Government of Karnataka (2002)^[8]
Prof. Gopal Ranjan Research Award (2014)^[9]
The Amulya and Vimala Reddy Lecture Award (2014)^[10]
IGS Kueckelmann Award (2015)^[11]

Naveen, B.P.; Mahapatra, Durga Madhab; Sitharam, T.G.; Sivapullaiah, P.V.; Ramachandra, T.V. (January 2017). "Physico-chemical and biological characterization of urban municipal landfill leachate". Environmental Pollution. 220 (Pt A): 1–12. doi:10.1016/j.envpol.2016.09.002. PMID 27616651.
Sireesh, S.; Sitharam, T.G.; Dash, Sujit Kumar (April 2009). "Bearing capacity of circular footing on geocell–sand mattress overlying clay bed with void". Geotextiles and Geomembranes. 27 (2): 89–98. doi:10.1016/j.geotexmem.2008.09.005.
Sitharam, T.G; Latha, G.Madhavi (June 2002). "Simulation of excavations in jointed rock masses using a practical equivalent continuum approach". International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences. 39 (4): 517–525. doi:10.1016/S1365-1609(02)00024-2.

Sitharam, T. G.; Govindaraju, L. (2016). Elasticity for Engineers. I.K. International Publishing House Pvt. Limited. ISBN 978-93-85909-34-4.
Samui, Pijush; Das, Sarat; Sitharam, T.G. (2010). Soft Computing: in Geotechnical Engineering. VDM Verlag Dr. Müller. p. 112. ISBN 978-3639311259.
Sitharam, T. G. (2008). Geotechnical Engineering (Soil Mechanics). S. Chand Publishing. ISBN 978-81-219-2457-3.

^ "New IIT Guwahati Director T. G. Sitharam plans extension centres in Northeast". India Today. 6 July 2019.
^ "IIT Guwahati Director TG Sitharam gets appointed as new chairman of AICTE". telegraphindia.com. 22 November 2022. Retrieved 22 November 2022.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Positions Held". tgsitharam.in.
^ "IIT Guwahati Director TG Sitharam gets appointed as new chairman of AICTE". telegraphindia.com. 22 November 2022. Retrieved 22 November 2022.
^ "T.G.Sitharam – Research Activities". www.iitg.ac.in.
^ ^a ^b "Sitharam Named ASCE Fellow | ASCE News". American Society of Civil Engineers. 12 March 2020.
^ "Editorial Board". Springer Transactions in Civil and Environmental Engineering. Springer. Retrieved 26 November 2022.
^ "KSCST : State Science and Technology Awards – Recipients". www.kscst.org.in. Department of Information Technology, Biotechnology and Science & Technology, Government of Karnataka.
^ "CITATION -Gopal Ranjan Research Award 2014" (PDF).
^ "Amulya and Vimala Reddy Lecture Award in the Field of Sustainable Development". www.iisc.ac.in. Indian Institute of Science Bangalore.
^ Bhagwan, Jai. "Bulletin of Indian Geotechnical Society (Jan – Mar 2015)" (PDF). www.igs.org. Indian Geotechnical Society.
^ "System and method for fracking of shale rock formation". patents.google.com. US Patent Office. 9 April 2015.