Prof. T.G. Sitharam is currently the Director of Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IIT), India and Senior Professor at the Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, India. He was a KSIIDC Chair Professor in the area of Energy and Mechanical Sciences and the founder Chairman of the Center for Infrastructure, Sustainable Transport and Urban Planning (CiSTUP) at IISc. He was the Chairman of the AICTE South Western Zonal Committee, Bengaluru and now he is for Eastern zonal committee. He is the President of the Indian Society for Earthquake Technology (ISET) and  the founder President of the International Association for Coastal Reservoir Research (IACRR). He was a  Visiting Professor at Yamaguchi University, Japan; University of Waterloo, Canada; University of Dolhousie, Halifax, Canada;  and ISM Dhanbad, India. was a Research Scientist at University of Texas at Austin, Texas, USA.  Dr. L. Govindraju is currently Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering (UVCE), Bangalore University, Bangalore. He obtained his Bachelor’s in Civil Engineering from Mysore University, India (1986), Master’s in Geotechnical Engineering from National Institute of Technology Karnataka (NITK), India (1994) and Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from Indian Institute of Science (IISc), India (2005). He was awarded fellowship from National Programme on Earthquake Engineering Education (NPEEE) instituted by the Ministry of Human Resources & Development, Government of India to pursue post doctoral research in the area of earthquake engineering at the Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford (UK). He is the member of several professional bodies such as IGS, ISTE and ISET. He has published over 150 technical papers and two books.