{"id":14,"date":"2016-08-16T06:18:06","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T06:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/luit.iitg.ac.in\/abhiak\/?page_id=14"},"modified":"2026-06-26T12:46:31","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T07:16:31","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.iitg.ac.in\/abhiak\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Website last updated on 20\/06\/2026<\/h5>\n<h1>Dr Abhishek Kumar<\/h1>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"img-rounded alignnone wp-image-334 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/luit.iitg.ac.in\/abhiak\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Dr-Abhishek-Civil-295x300.jpg\" width=\"295\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iitg.ac.in\/abhiak\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Dr-Abhishek-Civil-295x300.jpg 295w, https:\/\/www.iitg.ac.in\/abhiak\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Dr-Abhishek-Civil-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/www.iitg.ac.in\/abhiak\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Dr-Abhishek-Civil.jpg 314w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 295px) 100vw, 295px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Education<\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h3>PhD (2012) Geotechnical Engineering<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #339966;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<a style=\"color: #339966;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.iisc.ernet.in\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h3>M. E. Geotechnical Engineering<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #339966;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<a style=\"color: #339966;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.iisc.ernet.in\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore<\/a><\/span> (converted to PhD)<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h3>B. E. (2007) Civil Engineering<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #339966;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<a style=\"color: #339966;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amu.ac.in\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<h2><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Professional Experience<\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h3>Associate Professor (Jan 2019- present)<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iitg.ac.in\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati,<\/a> India<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h3>Assistant Professor (May 2014- Jan 2019),<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #339966;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<a style=\"color: #339966;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.www.iitg.ac.in\/civil\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati<\/a><\/span>, India<\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h3>Assistant Engineering Manager (September 2013 to April 2014),<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #339966;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<a style=\"color: #339966;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lntecc.com\/homepage\/GeoStructure\/home.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">L &amp; T GeoStructure, HQ, Chennai<\/a><\/span>, India<\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h3>Research Associate (August 2012 to August 2013),<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #339966;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<a style=\"color: #339966;\" href=\"https:\/\/civil.iisc.ernet.in\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore<\/a><\/span>, India<\/h3>\n<h2><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Research Interests<\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h3>Seismic Hazard of Urban centres<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h3>Seismic Hazard of Nuclear Power Plants<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h3>Ground Motion Simulation<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h3>Liquefaction Assessment<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h3>Site Response Analysis<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h3>Multichannel Analysis of Surface Waves (MASW)<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h3>Subsoil investigation and Geotechnical Testing<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h3>Soil Dynamics<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h3>Dynamics Testing on Pile<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h3>Ground Improvement<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h3>Deep Excavations<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Website last Updated on 20\/06\/2026<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website last updated on 20\/06\/2026 Dr Abhishek Kumar Education PhD (2012) Geotechnical Engineering \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India M. E. Geotechnical Engineering \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (converted to PhD) B. E. (2007) Civil Engineering \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh Professional Experience Associate Professor (Jan 2019- [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"full-width-page.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iitg.ac.in\/abhiak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iitg.ac.in\/abhiak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iitg.ac.in\/abhiak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iitg.ac.in\/abhiak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iitg.ac.in\/abhiak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.iitg.ac.in\/abhiak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1138,"href":"https:\/\/www.iitg.ac.in\/abhiak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions\/1138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iitg.ac.in\/abhiak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}