Prof. Deepankar Choudhury is Prof. T. Kant Chair Professor (HAG) and former Head of Civil Engineering department at IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India. Always 1st class 1st and Gold Medalist in academics, with B.E, (Civil Engg.) from Jadavpur University in 1997, M.E. (Geotechnical Engg.) from IISc Bangalore in 2000 and PhD from IISc Bangalore in 2002 with IGS-Prof. G. A. Leonrad's Bext Thesis Award. Prof. Choudhury also worked as a faculty at IIT Kanpur, mentored new IITs at Gandhinagar and Dharwad on deputation from IIT Bombay. Also, as mentor Head of newly started Civil Engg. dept. of IIT Dharwad, he was instrumental to start the department with double charge of Headship both at IIT Bombay and IIT Dharwad in parallel. He was a Visiting Fellow/Faculty at NUS Singapore, UoW Australia, UC Berkeley USA, Kagoshima Univ. Japan, TU Darmstadt Germany and Incheon National Univ. South Korea.

Prof. Choudhury is an elected Fellow (FNASc) of The National Academy of Sciences, India, Fellow (FNAE) of Indian National Academy of Engineering and Fellow (FASc) of Indian Academy of Sciences, Bengaluru. He is the only working Geotechnical Engineer of India who is Fellow of three prestigious academies (both Science and Engineering Academies) of India. Internationally he is elected Fellow (F.ASCE) of American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), USA, Alexander von Humboldt Fellow of Germany, JSPS Fellow of Japan, and TWAS-VS Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences, Italy. He is also national Fellow of Institution of Engineers India (FIE), Indian Geotechnical Society (FIGS), West Bengal Academy of Science and Technology (FAScT), Indian Society of Earthquake Technology (FISET).

Prof. Choudhury, a recipient of Prof. C. S. Desai Medal of IACMAG, USA in 2017, also received Excellent Regional Contributions Award of IACMAG-2014 and Excellent Paper Award (Junior) of IACMAG-2008 for outstanding ASCE-Journal paper. He received several Young Scientist/Engineer Awards from various academies/societies of India like INSA, NASI, ISCA, INAE, IEI, DST, DAE, ISTE and from abroad like APACM, Shamsher Prakash Research Foundation & recipient of Gopal Ranjan Technology Award of IIT Roorkee.

Prof. Choudhury is the Editor-in-Chief of Indian Geotechnical Journal (Springer) and an Associate Editor of ASCE-International Journal of Geomechanics of USA, Journal of Civil Engineering of Institution of Engineers India (Springer). He served as Editorial Board Member (EBM) for Canadian Geotechnical Journal, Soils and Foundations (Elsevier), and currently EBM of Geotechnical and Geological Engineering (Springer), Geomechanics and Engineering (Techno-Press).

Prof. Choudhury’s research areas are Civil Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering, Computational Geomechanics, Sustainable Foundation Engineering, CPRF, Soil Dynamics, Disaster Resilient Geostructures. His pioneering research on pseudo-dynamic method of analysis and design of earthquake resistant geotechnical structures and dynamic formulation of Combined Pile-Raft Foundation (CPRF) are considered as fundamental engineering and scientific contributions which are highly recognized and appreciated across the globe.

Prof. Choudhury’s Video lectures in YouTube through NPTEL on ‘Soil Dynamics’ and ‘Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering’ are highly popular all over the world. Prof. Choudhury received ‘Prof. S. P. Sukhatme Excellence in Teaching Award-2017’ of IIT Bombay & 1st recipient of 'Best Teacher of Geotech. Engg. Award'-2023 from IGS. Prof. Choudhury supervised 35 PhD theses and many of his former PhD students’ theses received Best PhD Thesis Awards. His former PhD students are well placed as faculty of reputed institutes and organizations in Australia, UK, India and at various industries both nationally and internationally. His co-authored text book on ‘Foundation Systems for High-Rise Structures’ is very popular worldwide and Prof. Choudhury authored over 310 technical publications including about 200 peer reviewed journal papers which are highly cited all over the world.

He was Secretary of technical committee TC 207 of International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE), Secretary of TC 212 of ISSMGE, Editorial Board of ISSMGE Bulletin, member of TC 203. He is core committee member of several IS codes under CED-43 of Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), and was one of the main creators of first ever International design manual on CPRF published by ISSMGE.

Prof. Choudhury organized two most prestigious national examinations in India as National Organising Vice-Chairman of IIT-JEE (Advanced) 2015 (with founding member of JoSAA-2015) and as National Organising Chairperson of GATE 2021. Currently he is national nodal coordinator for board-01 of Prime Minister Research Fellowship (PMRF) program for PhD admission and member of national nodal committee of PMRF. Prof. Choudhury is the Chairman of Technical Committee of Disaster Management and Capacity Building under State Disaster Management Authority (SDMA), Government of Maharashtra. He is also an expert member of High-Rise Committee (HRC) of BMC, Maharahstra and Expert Review Panel (ERP) member of Maharashtra and Haryana states as per IS-16700 for tall buildings. He is the only Civil Engineer of the country who is empanelled as a Search-cum-Selection Committee member for selection of Vice Chancellors of various universities of WB.

As expert member of NBA, NAAC, at various academic councils and BoS of several IITs, NITs,universities, he contributes in formation of Civil Engg. course curriculum. He executed various prestigious mega industry projects of Foundation Engineering and Earthquake Engg. as an expert. He delivered several Plenary, Keynote and Invited Lectures across over 30 countries.

Prof. Choudhury provided expert solutions for various mega industry projects of India and abroad showing the applications of his research outcome in real field problems which have been executed succesfully. To name a few, India's longest sea bridge (21.8km) - ATAL SETU (MTHL) foundation design verification and seismic design for pacakge-1 with L&T was executed by Prof. Choudhury which has been extensively covered by print and news media. He also had given expert solutions for the new GHAVP nuclear power plant foundation in Hissar, Haryana, India which was founded fully in alluvial soil using the CPRF technology and seismic design which came out as a major research output applied in real field project.