Fellow of The National Academy of Sciences, India (FNASc), Fellow of Indian National Academy of Engineering (FNAE), Fellow of Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore (FASc), Alexander von Humboldt Fellow of Germany, JSPS Fellow of Japan, TWAS-VS Fellow of Italy, BOYSCAST Fellow of India, Fellow of American Society of Civil Engineers (F.ASCE) USA, Fellow of Institution of Engineers, India (FIE), Fellow of West Bengal Academy of Science and Technology, India (FAScT).Chairman of Technical Committee of Disaster Management, SDMA, GoM.Editor-in-Chief of Indian Geotechnical Journal, Springer, India. Associate Editor of (i) International Journal of Geomechanics, ASCE, USA; (ii) Journal of Institution of Engineers, India - Series A, Springer, India.Editorial Board Member of (i) Geotechnical and Geological Engineering, Springer, USA; (ii) Geomechanics and Engineering, Techno-Press, Korea; (iii) Soils and Foundations, Elsevier, Japan (former) & (iv) Canadian Geotechnical Journal, Canada (former).Head, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India (March 2021 - till date).Prof. Tarun Kant Chair Professor, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India (March 2021 - till date).National Organising Chairperson of GATE 2021, India (June 2020 - May 2021).Institute Chair Professor, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India (Oct 2017 - Oct 2020).Professor, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India (June 2012 - till date).Adjunct Professor, AcSIR, with CSIR-CBRI Roorkee, India (Jan 2013 - Jan 2020).Visiting Professor, Incheon National University, South Korea (May - June, 2017).National Organising Vice-Chairman of IIT - JEE(Advanced) 2015, India (August 2014 - Sept 2015).Visiting (Guest) Professor, TU Darmstadt, Germany (June - July 2013, May - July 2014).Humboldt Fellow (Senior category), TU Darmstadt, Germany (2010 - 2012).JSPS Fellow, Kagoshima University, Japan (May-July, 2009).BOYSCAST Fellow, UC Berkeley, CA, USA (April-Oct, 2006).Visiting Fellow, University of Wollongong, Australia (May-June, 2005).Visiting Scientist, NUS, Singapore (May-July, 2004).Associate Professor, IIT Gandhinagar, India (January-April, 2009).Assistant Professor, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India (July 2003-Mar 2007).Lecturer, IIT Kanpur, India (Nov 2002-June 2003).Design Engineer, DCL, Kolkata, India (July 1997-July 1998).Specialties: Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering, Earthquake resistant design of geotechnical structures and foundations, Soil Dynamics, Foundation Engineering, Computational Geomechanics, Liquefaction, Combined Pile-Raft Foundation, Disaster Management, Foundation for High-Rise Structures etc.