Prof. (Dr.) T. G. Sitharam is currently the Chairman, All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE), Govt. of India. He was the Director of Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Assam for 3.5 years (from July 2019 to
December 2022). He obtained his B.E. (Civil Engineering) from University of Mysore, Masters from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in 1986 and Ph.D. from University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada in 1991. He worked as a Lecturer at University of Waterloo soon after his Ph.D. and later moved to University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA (1992-94). He also held the position of Director (additional charge) at Central
Institute of Technology (CIT), Kokrajhar, Assam for 1.5 years (May 2021 - November 2022). Presently, he is also the Chairman, Board of Governors at CIT, Kokrajhar and Chairman, Board of Management, North East
Regional Institute of Science and Technology, Nirjuli, Arunachal Pradesh.
He is a Senior Professor in Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore and has served IISc for the last 30 years. He held KSIIDC Chair Professor in the area of Energy and Mechanical Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore from 2015 to 2018. He was instrumental in starting a Center for infrastructure, sustainable transport, and urban planning and Master’s programme in the center at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He has served as a Visiting or Honorary Professor at many universities in countries such as Japan, Canada, USA, Hong Kong, Australia, and Republic of China.
He has published 500 technical papers, 20 books with Google scholar h-index of 55 and i10-index of 159 with more than 9455 citations. He has guided 40 Ph.D. Students, 35 Masters Students, 25 Postdoctoral Students and several thousand industry professionals and teachers through continuing education workshops. He has filed for 5 patents, executed more than 120 consulting projects and has 2 start-up companies to his credit. He was listed in the world’s top 2% of the most-cited research scientists in various disciplines by Stanford University in
2020. Again his name appeared in the top 2% of scientists in Elsevier by Stanford University in 2021 and 2022. He was part of an 8-member expert panel set up to supervise Ram temple foundation-laying work for Sri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra at Ayodhya.
He is the Fellow of ASCE, Fellow of ICE (UK), Diplomat of Geotechnical Engineering (DGE) from Academy of Geo-Professionals, ASCE; Honorary Fellow of IGS, Fellow of ISET, Fellow of ISES and many other Societies. He has received Sir M. Visvesvaraya Senior Scientist State Award for the year 2020. He is also a certified professional engineer and chartered engineer from Institution of Engineers.
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