Shailesh GANDHI

Affiliation

Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, Palaj, Gandhinagar 382055. Gujarat, India

Biography

Prof. S. R. Gandhi obtained his B.Tech Civil from Saurashtra University in 1977, M.Tech in Soil Mechanics from IIT Madras in 1979 and Ph.D. on topic “Piles socketed in weak rock” from IIT Madras in 1985.

He worked as faculty in Ocean Engineering Center at IIT Madras from 1982 and since 1990 he was a faculty member in Geotechnical Engineering Division in Department of Civil Engineering at IIT Madras till October, 2016. Since 24^th October 2016 to 23^rd October 2021, he was Director at SVNIT, Surat. At present he is Visiting Faculty at IIT Gandhinagar.

His research area includes design of pile foundation, ground improvement, field instrumentation & monitoring and design of ash pond. He has carried out 3 major Sponsored Research Projects funded by Department of Science and Technology on Densification of Fly Ash and Reinforced Earth Embankment.

He is an active Foundation Consultant to various Government organizations and Private industries for design and construction of foundation. He served as Executive Member of Indian Geotchnical Society, Delhi for two terms. He was the organizing chairman for the Indian Geotechnical Conference 2006 and Deep Foundation Institute (India Chapter) conference 2012 held at IIT Madras.

He served as Chief Editor of Indian Geotechnical Journal during 2005-2010 and also served as associate editor of SADHANA Journal. He