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  • Pavement Geotechnics Lab
  • Teaching
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  • Sponsored Research
  • Professional Activities
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Professional
activities

Professional Activities

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
  1. Life Fellow of Indian Geotechnical Society (IGS LF no: LF 0582)
  2. Life member of Indian Roads Congress (IRC) (LM-40033)
  3. Member of International Geosynthetics Society (IGS#10662)
  4. Member of American Society of Civil Engineers (M.ASCE # 948225)
  5. Member of International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE membership no: IND12LM-2469)
  6. Chairman, Indian Geotechnical Society, Hyderabad Chapter (2023-25)
  7. Member represeting India for Technical Committee (TC) on Sustainability (TC 307) of ISSMGE
  8. Member representing India for Technical Committee (TC) on Transportation Geotechnics (TC 202) of ISSMGE
  9. Member of Technical Committee on Stabilization (TC-S), International Geosynthetics Society (IGS): (2018-21)
  10. Secretary (Elect), ASCE India Section (2013-2015)
  11. Member of Committee on Geosynthetics (AKG80), Transportation Research Board (TRB ID: 50553)
  12. Member of Committee on Engineering Behavior of Unsaturated Soils (AFP60), Transportation Research Board (TRB ID: 50553)
  13. Joint Secretary/Treasurer, ASCE India Section - Southern Region (2011-2013)
  14. Executive Committee Member, IGS Hyderabad Chapter, 2011-2014
  15. Member of Chi Epsilon - A Civil Engineering Honorary Society of the United States of America
Editorial boards
  1. Editorial Board Member, Indian Geotechnical Journal, IGC (Jan. 19- ) 
  2. Editorial Board Member, Proceedings of ICE – Ground Improvement Journal (Nov. 12- Nov. 20)
  3. Editorial Board Member, Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering, ASCE (2014- Current) 
  4. Guest Editor, Special Issue on ‘Transportation Geotechnics’, Indian Geotechnical Journal (2013).
  5. Editor, Sustainability Issues in Civil Engineering, Springer Transactions in Civil and Environmental Engineering (2016)
conferences organized
  1. Organizing Chair, GeoPractices 2024 and IGS-FERROCO TERZAGHI ORATION 2024, IITH HYDERABAD, 4-5, October 2024.
  2. Coordinator for GIAN course on ‘Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering’, 18-29, Dec. 2017. Foreign Expert: Prof. Ikuo Towhata, Professor Emeritus, University of Tokyo, Japan.
  3. Organizing Secretary – International Conference on Sustainable Civil Infrastructure (ICSCI – 2014), October 17-18, 2014, Hitex Exhibition Center, Hyderabad.
  4. Organizing Secretary – One-day Symposium on ‘Landfill Engineering: Perspectives and Practices’, August 7, 2013, IIT Hyderabad.
  5. Session Chair – ICCMS 2012-Sesson on ‘Advances in Computational Geomechanics’, Hyderabad, India, December 9-12, 2012.
  6. Organizing Secretary – Three days Indo-Japan i.School Workshop on ‘Foresight India’, i.School workshop 2012, jointly organized by the University of Tokyo and the Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad at IIT Hyderabad, September 13-15, 2012.
  7. Organizing Secretary – One day Indo-US Workshop on ‘Strides in Infra Development on Expansive and Soft Soils (IDEaS 2012), IIT Hyderabad, June 27, 2012.
  8. Organizing Secretary – Indian Geotechnical Society’s 1st Young Geotechnical Engineers Conference of Andhra Pradesh (YGeoTech 2012), IIITH, Hyderabad, March 31, 2012.
  9. Editor and Organizing Committee member– ASCE IS Conference on ‘Geosynthetic Lining Solutions and Related Issues’, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, Feb 25, 2012.
  10. Session Chair/Organizing Committee member– Technical track on ‘Green Structures’ in NatFOE 2011 Symposium, IIT Hyderabad, Hyderabad, Sep 2-3, 2011.
  11. Chair/Session Leader – Technical session on ‘Geogrid Reinforcement Mechanisms in Pavement Stabilization Applications’ in GeoFrontiers 2011, ASCE Geo-Institute’s International Conference, Dallas, Texas, USA. March 13-16 2011.
  12. Chair/Co-Chair – Technical session on ‘Soil-Foundation Interaction Due to Ground Movements I' in GeoFlorida 2010, ASCE Geo-Institute’s international conference, West Palm Beach, Florida, USA.
  13. Chair/Co-Chair – Technical session on ‘Soil-Foundation Interaction Due to Ground Movements II' in GeoFlorida 2010, ASCE Geo-Institute’s international conference, West Palm Beach, Florida, USA.
  14. Chair/Co-Chair – Technical session on ‘Soil-Foundation Interaction Due to Ground Movements III' in GeoFlorida 2010, ASCE Geo-Institute’s international conference, West Palm Beach, Florida, USA.
  15. Chair/Co-Chair - Technical session on ‘Problematic and Tropical Soils’ in Indian Geotechnical Conference, IGC-’08, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.
in social

Contact Information

Prof. Sireesh S
CE 301, Geotechnical Engineering
Department of Civil Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad
Kandi, Sangareddy - 502 284

Office: 040-2301-6302
sireesh[at]ce.iith.ac.in
chair[at]gss.iith.ac.in
chair.trihub[at]iith.ac.in