Prof. Raju Sarkar

ACADEMIC PROFILE:

 

Degree Name	University Name	City Name	Country
Bachelor of Engineering (Civil Engineering)	Gauhati University	Guwahati	India
Master of Engineering  (Soil Mech.& Foundation Engineering)	Gauhati University	Guwahati	India
PhD (Geotechnical Engineering)	Jamia Millia Islamia (Central University, Govt. of India)	New Delhi	India
Post PhD Research	University of Nottingham	Nottingham	United Kingdom

 

OTHER RELEVANT TRAINING:

1)    2018 Advanced Institute on Landslide Risk Reduction Training School – Landslide Hazards: From Site Specific to Regional Assessment, Taipei, Taiwan (2018)

2)    Earthquake Early Warning System, Kobe, Japan (2017)

3)    Geo-Meteorological Hazards Risk Management, New Delhi, India (2016)

PRESENT APPOINTMENT

2018 – Professor

Department of Civil Engineering, Delhi Technological University, Delhi, India

 

PREVIOUS APPOINTMENTS

2016 – 2019    On Deputation, Ministry of External Affairs, Govt. of India to Royal University of Bhutan, Bhutan

Head and Coordinator, Center for Disaster Risk Reduction and Community Development Studies, Royal University of Bhutan

2015 – 2018     Associate Professor 

Department of Civil Engineering, Delhi Technological University, Delhi, India 

2012 – 2015     Assistant Professor 

Department of Civil Engineering, Delhi Technological University, Delhi, India

2007 – 2012     Sr. Lecturer 

Department of Civil Engineering, Delhi College of Engineering, Delhi, India 

2000 – 2007     Lecturer 

Department of Civil Engineering, Department of Training and Technical Education, Govt. of Delhi, Delhi, India

 

1) Economic and Social Resilience Through Sustainable Infrastructure

2) Infrastructure Resilience and Socio-Economic Dynamics

3) Disaster Assessment and Mitigation

4) Landslide Hazard Assessment and Mitigation

5) Soil-Structure Interaction

6) Design of Underground Excavation

 

1) Member, Making Cities Resilient – UNDRR

2) Member, International Association of Seismology and Physics of the Earth's Interior (IASPEI)

2) Member, Indian Society of Geotechnical Engineering (ISGE)

RESEARCH PAPERS AND PUBLICATIONS :

A)  International Journals

1) Sarkar, R. (2005), “Landslides and Debris Flows: A Case Study of Uttarkashi”, Journal of Nepal Geological Society, Vol-32 (Sp. Issue), pp 71-76.

2) Sarkar, R. (2007), “Resettlement and Post Earthquake Reconstruction”, Journal, CIVILICA (ISSN: 1735-5540) (Vol-Urban & Regional Planning, 1386), pp 234-238.

3) Sarkar, R. (2008), “Post Earthquake Debris Management”, Journal, Advances in Geosciences (ISSN: 978-981-270-988-2) (Vol. 09), pp. 53-64.

4) Sarkar, R., Abbas, S.M., and Shahu, J.T. (2011), “Geotechnical Characterizations of Pond Ash Available in National Capital Region – Delhi”, International Journal of Earth Sciences & Engineering (IJEE)  (ISSN: 0974-5904) (Vol. 04, No. 06, Spl), pp. 138-142.

5) Sarkar, R., Abbas, S.M., and Shahu, J.T. (2011), “Geotechnical Behavior of Randomly Oriented Fiber Reinforced Pond Ashes Available in Delhi Region” International Journal of Earth Sciences & Engineering (IJEE) (ISSN : 0974-5904) (Vol. 05, No. 01), pp. 44-50.

6) Sarkar, R., Abbas, S.M., and Shahu, J.T. (2012), “Study of Geotechnical Behaviour of Pond Ash Mixed with Marble Dust”, International Journal of Advanced Technology in Civil Engineering (IJATCE) (ISSN: 2231–5721) (Vol. 01, No. 02, pp. 99-106.

7) Sarkar, R., Abbas, S.M., and Shahu, J.T. (2012),  “A Comparative Study of Geotechnical Behavior of Lime Stabilized Pond Ashes from Delhi Region”, International Journal of GEOMATE, Japan,  (ISSN : 2186, 2982 (Print), 2186-2990 (Online) (Vol. 03, No. 01, Sl. No. 05), pp. 273-279.

8) Sarkar, R., Negi, P. (2013), “Effect of Curing on Compaction Behavior of Pond Ash Mixed with Marble Dust and Lime” International Journal of Earth Sciences & Engineering (IJEE) (ISSN : 0974-5904) (Vol. 06, No. 01), pp. 211-216.

9) Mandal, P., Saud, T., Sarkar, R., Mandal, A., Sharma, S.K., Mandal, T.K (2013), “High seasonal variation of atmospheric C and particle concentrations in Delhi, India”, Environmental Chemistry Letters (ISSN: 1610-3653 (Print); 1610-3661 (Online)) (Vol. 12, No. 01), pp. 225-230, Springer.  

10) Mudgal, A., Negi, P. and Sarkar, R. (2013), “Utilization of Fly Ash Mixed With Lime in Pavement Sub-Base”, International Journal of Civil Engineering and Applications (IJCEA) (ISSN No. 2249-426X) (Vol. 3, No. 02), pp. 22-25.

11) Mudgal, A. Sarkar, R. and Sahu, A.K., (2014), “Effect of Lime And Stone Dust in the Geotechnical Properties Of Black Cotton Soil”, International Journal of GEOMATE, Japan,  (ISSN : 2186-2982 (Print), 2186-2990 (Online) (Vol. 07, No. 02, Sl. No. 14), pp. 1033-1039.

12) Mandal, P., Sarkar, R., Saud, T., and Mandal (2014), “Seasonal Variation and Sources of Aerosol Pollution in Delhi, India”, Environmental Chemistry Letters (ISSN: 1610-3653 (Print); 1610-3661 (Online)) (Vol. 13, No. 32), Springer.

13) Sarkar, R., Daalia, A., Narang, K., Garg, S., Agarwal, P. and Mudgal, A. (2015), "Cost Effectiveness of Flexible Pavement on Stabilised Expansive Soils", International Journal of GEOMATE, Japan,  (ISSN : 2186-2982 (Print), 2186-2990 (Online) (Vol. 10, No. 01, Sl. No. 19), pp. 1595-1599. 

14) Sarkar, R., Dawson, A.R. (2015), "Economic Assessment of Use of Pond Ash in Pavements", International Journal of Pavement Engineering, DOI:10.1080/10298436.2015.1095915, Taylor & Francis.

15) Mandal, P., Sarkar, R., Mandal, A., Patel, P., Kamal, N. (2016), “Study on Airborne Heavy Metals in Industrialized Urban Area of Delhi, India”, Bulletin - Environmental Contamination Toxicology, DOI:10.1007/s00128-016-1944-y, Springer.

16) Sarkar, R., Dorji, C, Mudgal, A., Gupta, V., Kurar, R. (2016), “Application of Geosynthetics to Reduce Landslide Risk in Earthquake Prone Bhutan”, J Nepal Geological Society, v. 52 (special issue), p. 15-18.

17) Sarkar, R., Mudgal, A., Bhaskar, S., Gupta, V., Kurar, R. (2016), “A Review on Study on Effect of Various Admixtures on Geotechnical Properties of Expansive Soils”, Indian Journal of Science and Technology, Vol 9(44), DOI: 10.17485/ijst/2016/v9i44/105295, pp. 136-152.

18) Mandal, P., Sarkar, R., Mandal, A. (2016), “Ambient Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons and its Carcinogenic and Mutagenic Risk – A Review”, International Advanced Research Journal in Science, Engineering and Technology, Vol 3(9), DOI 10.17148/IARJSET.2016.3937, pp 189-197.

19) Chuki, S., Sarkar, R. and Kurar, R. (2017), “A Review on Traditional Architecture Houses in Buddhist Culture”, American Journal of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Vol. 5(3), DOI: 10.12691/ajcea-5-3-6, pp 113-123.

20) Sarkar, R., Narang, K. and Yangdhen, S. (2017), “Major Issues of Post-Earthquake Housing Construction during Resettlement”, Journal of Geological Resource and Engineering, Vol. 5(3), DOI: 10.17265/2328-2193/2017.03.002, pp 105-112.

21) Sarkar, R., Kurar, R., Zangmo, S., Dema, U., Subba, S.,  Sharma, D.K. (2017), “Application of Soil Nailing for Landslide Mitigation in Bhutan: A Case Study at Sorchen Bypass” Electronic Journal of Geotechnical Engineering, Vol. 22 (13), pp 4963-4982.

22) Singh, S., Sarkar, R., Gupta, S. (2017), “Comparative Study of Hair Reinforced Pond Ash Mixed with Soil”, International Journal for Research in Applied Science and Engineering Technology, Vol. 5 (9),   DOI: 10.22214/ijraset.2017.9029, pp. 197-204.

23) Sarkar, R., Kurar, R., Gupta, A.K., Mudgal, A., Gupta, V. (2017), “Use of Paper Mill Waste for Brick Making” Journal of Cogent Engineering (Civil & Environmental Engineering), DOI: 10.1080/23311916.2017.1405768, Cogent OA - Taylor & Francis.

24) Mudgal, A. Sarkar, R., Shrivastava, A.K., (2018), “Influence of Geotextiles in Enhancing the Shear Strength of Yamuna Sand”, International Journal of Applied Engineering Research, Vol. 13, No. 12, pp. 10733-10740.

25) Dikshit, A., Sarkar, R., Satyam, N. (2018), “Probabilistic Approach Toward Darjeeling Himalayas Landslides - A Case Study”, Journal of Cogent Engineering (Civil & Environmental Engineering), https://doi.org/10.1080/23311916.2018.1537539, Cogent OA - Taylor & Francis.

26) Gariano, S.L., Sarkar, R., Dikshit, A., Dorji, K., Teresa, M., Brunetti, M.T., Peruccacci, M. (2018), “Automatic Calculation of Rainfall Thresholds for Landslide Occurrence in Chukha Dzongkhag, Bhutan”, Bulletin of Engineering Geology and Environment, 72(6), 4325-4332, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10064-018-1415-2, Springer.

27) Sarkar, R., Dorji, K. (2019), “Determination of the Probabilities of Landslide Events—A Case Study of Bhutan”, Hydrology, 6(2), 52, https://doi.org/10.3390/hydrology6020052, MDPI.

28) Mudgal, A. Sarkar, R., Shrivastava, A.K., (2019), “Bearing Capacity Behaviour of Geosynthetics Reinforced Soil”, International Journal of Innovative Technology and Exploring Engineering, 8(8), 2974-2979.

29) Sarkar, R., Vijaya Kumar, T., Gurung,K., Sharma, D., Choki, T., Wangmo, K., Tshomo, K., Penjor, S., Dikshit, A., Kurar, R., (2019), “Comparative Study on Traditional Timber Bridges of Bhutan with Timber Bridges of Other Nations”, Journal of Construction and Building Materials Engineering, 5(2),http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3291972.

30) Dikshit, A., Sarkar, R., Pradhan, B., Acharya, S., Dorji, K. (2019), “Estimating Rainfall Thresholds for Landslide Occurrences in Bhutan Himalayas”, Water, http://doi:10.3390/w11081616, MDPI.

31) Mudgal, A. Sarkar, R., Shrivastava, A.K., (2019), “Effect of 3D Geogrid and Glasgrid in the Bearing Capacity of Square Footing over Soil Slope”, International Journal of Recent Technology and Engineering, 8(2), 207-212.

32) Chettri, N., Sarkar, R.,  Adhikari, K., Chettri, I.B., (2019), "Forecasting Landslide in Chukha from Index Properties of Soil-Research to Policy Making", World Scientific News, Vol. 135, 227-248.

33) Sarkar, R., Dikshit, A., Hazarika, H., Yamada, K., Subba, K. (2019), "Probabilistic Rainfall Thresholds for Landslide Occurrences in Bhutan", International Journal of Recent Technology and Engineering, DOI:10.35940/ijrte.B1132.0982S1019, 8(2S10), 737-742.

34) Sameen, M.I., Sarkar, R., Pradhan, B., Drukpa, D., Park, H, (2019), “Landslide Spatial Modelling Using Unsupervised Factor Optimisation and Regularised Greedy Forests", Computers and Geosciences, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cageo.2019.104336, Elsevier.

35) Dikshit, A., Sarkar, R., Pradhan, B., Jena, R., Drukpa, D., Alamri, A.M. (2020), “Temporal Probability Assessment and Its Use in Landslide Susceptibility Mapping for Eastern Bhutan”, Water, http://doi:10.3390/w12010267, MDPI. 

36) Dikshit, A., Sarkar, R., Pradhan, B., Segoni, S., Alamri, A.M. (2020), “Rainfall Induced Landslide Studies in Indian Himalayan Region: A Critical Review”, Applied Sciences, 10(7), 2466; https://doi.org/10.3390/app10072466, MDPI. 

37) Dikshit, A., Sarkar, R., Pradhan, B., Acharya, S., Alamri, A.M. (2020), “Spatial Landslide Risk Assessment at Phuentsholing, Bhutan”, Geosciences, 10(4), 131; https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences10040131, MDPI.

38) Tempa, K., Sarkar, R., Dikshit, A., Pradhan, B., Simonelli, A.L., Acharya, S., Alamri, A.M. (2020), “Parametric Study of Local Site Response for Bedrock Ground Motion to Earthquake in Phuentsholing, Bhutan”, Sustainability, 12, 5273, https://doi:10.3390/su12135273, MDPI.

39) Das, M., Das, A., Sarkar, R., Saha, S., Mandal, A. (2020), “Examining the Impact of Lockdown (due to COVID-19) on Ambient Aerosols (PM_2.5): A Study on Indo-Gangatic Plain (IGP) Cities, India, Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00477-020-01905-x, Springer.

40) Das, M., Das, A., Ghosh, S., Sarkar, R., Saha, S. (2021),“Spatio-temporal Concentration of Atmospheric Particulate Matter (PM2.5) During Pandemic: A Study on Most Polluted Cities of Indo-Gangetic Plain”, Urban Climate, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.uclim.2020.100758, Elsevier.

41) Meena, S.R., Ghorbanzadeh, O., van Westen, C.J., Nachappa, T.G., Blaschke, T, Singh, R.P., Sarkar, R. (2021), "Rapid Mapping of Landslides in the Western Ghats (India) Triggered by 2018 Extreme Monsoon Rainfall Using a Deep Learning Approach", Landslides, http://doi.org/10.1007/s10346-020-01602-4, Springer.

42) Tempa, K., Chettri, N., Sarkar, R., Saha, S., Gurung, L., Dendup, C., Nirola, B.S. (2021), "Geotechnical Parameter Assessment of Sediment Deposit: A Case Study in Pasakha, Bhutan", Cogent Engineering, https://doi.org/10.1080/23311916.2020.1869366, Taylor and Francis.

43) Sarkar, R., Kolathayar, S., Drukpa, D., Choki, K., Rai, S., Tshering, S.T., Yuden, K. (2021), “Near-surface Seismic Refraction Tomography and MASW for Site Characterization in Phuentsholing, Bhutan Himalaya”, SN Applied Sciences (3-394), https://doi.org/10.1007/s42452-021-04347-4, Springer.

44) Das, M., Das, A., Sarkar, R., Saha, S., Mandal, P. (2021),"Regional Scenario of Air Pollution in Lockdown Due to COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence from Major Urban Agglomerations of India", Urban Climate, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.uclim.2021.100821, Elsevier.

45) Saha, T.K., Pal, S. Sarkar, R. (2021),"Prediction of Wetland Aarea and Depth Using Linear Regression Model and Artificial Neural Network Based Cellular Automata", Ecological Informatics, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2021.101272, Elsevier.

46) Saha, S., Sarkar, R., Thapa, G., Roy, J. (2021), "Modeling Gully Erosion Susceptibility in Phuentsholing, Bhutan Using Deep Learning and Basic Machine Learning Algorithms", Environmental Earth Sciences, 80(295), https://doi.org/10.1007/s12665-021-09599-2, Springer.

47) Saha, S., Saha, A., Das, M., Saha, A., Sarkar, R., Das, A. (2021), "Analyzing Spatial Relationship Between Land use/Land cover (LULC) and Land Surface Temperature (LST) of Three Urban Agglomerations (UAs) of Eastern India", Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment, 80(295), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rsase.2021.100507, Elsevier.

48) Das, M., Das, A., Sarkar, R., Mandal, P., Saha, S., Ghosh, S. (2021), "Exploring Short Term Spatio-temporal Pattern of PM_2.5 and PM₁₀ and Their Relationship With Meteorological Parameters During COVID-19 in Delhi", Urban Climate, 39:100944, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.uclim.2021.100944, Elsevier.

49) Saha, S., Sarkar, R., Roy, J., Hembram, T.K., Acharya, S., Thapa, G., Drukpa, D. (2021), "Measuring Landslide Vulnerability Status of Chukha, Bhutan Using Deep Learning Algorithms", Scientific Report, 11:16374, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-95978-5, Nature.

50) Das, M., Das, A., Giri, B., Sarkar, R., Saha, S. (2021), "Habitat Vulnerability in Slum Areas of India – What We Learnt from COVID-19?", International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 65:102553, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2021.102553, Elsevier.

51) Al-Najjar, H.A.H., Pradhan, B., Sarkar, R., Beydoun, G., Alamri, A. (2021), "A New Integrated Approach for Landslide Data Balancing and Spatial Prediction Based on Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN)", Remote Sensing, 13(4011), https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13194011, MDPI.

52) Pal, S. Sarkar, R., Saha, T.K. (2021), "Exploring the Forms of Wetland Modifications and Investigating the Causes in Lower Atreyee River Floodplain Area", Ecological Informatics, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2021.101494, Elsevier. 

53) Saha, S., Saha, A., Hembram, T.K., Mandal, K., Sarkar, R., Bhardwaj, D. (2022), “Prediction of Spatial Landslide Susceptibility Applying the Novel Ensembles of CNN, GLM and Random Forest in the Indian Himalayan Region”, Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00477-022-02212-3, Springer.

54) Mohanty, B. and Sarkar, R. (2022), “An assessment of historical and future coastal dynamic response along the Odisha coast”, Environmental Earth Sciences (2022) 81:353, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12665-022-10477-8, Springer.

55) Mandal, P., Sarkar, R., Kamal, N., Das, M., Mandal, A., (2022), “Diurnal and Seasonal Variation of Atmospheric Particulate Matter and Trace Gases in Industrial Area of Delhi: A Study”, Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00128-022-03572-w, Springer.

56) Al-Najjar, H.A.H., Pradhan, B., Beydoun, G., Sarkar, R., Park, H.J., Alamri, A., (2022), “A novel method using explainable artificial intelligence (XAI)-based Shapley Additive Explanations for spatial landslide prediction using Time-Series SAR dataset, Gondwana Research, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2022.08.004, Elsevier.

57) Saha, S., Saha, A., Hembram, T.K., Kundu, B., Sarkar, R. (2022), “Novel ensemble of deep learning neural network and support vector machine for landslide susceptibility mapping in Tehri region, Garhwal Himalaya”, Geocarto International, https://doi.org/10.1080/10106049.2022.2120638, Taylor and Francis.

58) Sengupta, S., Sarkar, R., Kolathayar, S., Drukpa, D. (2022), “Deterministic Seismic Hazard Analysis for Phuentsholing Region of Southern Bhutan Considering Local Site Effects”, Innovative Infrastructure Solutions, 7(361), https://doi.org/10.1007/s41062-022-00958-x, Springer.

59) Saha, S., Saha, A., Roy, B., Sarkar, R., Bhardwaj, D., Kundu, B. (2022), “Integrating the Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) With Machine Learning Methods for Improving the Accuracy of the Landslide Susceptibility Model”, Earth Science Informatics, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12145-022-00878-5, Springer.

60) Bhardwaj, D. and Sarkar, R. (2023), “Landslide Susceptibility Mapping Using Probabilistic Frequency Ratio and Shannon Entropy for Chamoli, Uttarakhand Himalayas”, Iranian Journal of Science and Technology, Transactions of Civil Engineering, https://doi.org/10.1007/s40996-023-01279-4, Springer.

61) Noori, H. and Sarkar, R. (2023), “Airport Pavement Distress Analysis”, Iranian Journal of Science and Technology, Transactions of Civil Engineering, https://doi.org/10.1007/s40996-023-01240-5, Springer.

62) Mohantya, B., Sarkar, R. and Saha, S. (2023), “Preparing Coastal Erosion Vulnerability Index Applying Deep Learning Techniques in Odisha State of India”, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2023.103986, Elsevier.

63) Bansal, V. and Sarkar, R. (2023), “Prophetical Modeling Using Limit Equilibrium Method and Novel Machine Learning Ensemble for Slope Stability Gauging in Kalimpong“, Iranian Journal of Science and Technology, Transactions of Civil Engineering, https://doi.org/10.1007/s40996-023-01156-0, Springer.

64) Saha, S., Saha, A., Santosh, M., Kundu, B., Sarkar, R. and Hembram, T.K. (2024), “Integrating Deep Learning Neural Network and M5P with Conventional Statistical Models for Landslide Susceptibility Modelling”, Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10064-023-03498-5, Springer.

65) Agarwal, J., and Sarkar, R. (2024), “Greenfield Settlements Due to Tunnelling Using Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) In Layered Soils: A Parametric Study”, Sadhana, Indian Academy of Sciences, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12046-023-02425-4, Springer.)

66) Bansal, V. and Sarkar, R. (2024), “Comparative Analysis of Slope Stability for Kalimpong Region under Dynamic Loading Using Limit Equilibrium Method and Machine Benchmark Learning Classifiers”, Iranian Journal of Science and Technology, Transactions of Civil Engineering, https://doi.org/10.1007/s40996-024-01344-6, Springer.

 

B) International Proceedings

1) Sarkar, R. (1997), “Concept of Eco-development for Rural Housing in North-East India”, International Conference on Civil Engineering for Sustainable Development, Roorkee, India, pp. 546-549.

2) Sarkar, R. (2003), “Strategies for Sustainable Development of Hilly Regions Through Environmental Conscious Planning”, International Civil Engineering Conference on Sustainable Development in the 21st Century, Nairobi, Kenya, pp. 789-793.

3) Sarkar, R. (2004), “Housing Construction and Post Earthquake Resettlement”, 5^th Asian Seismological Commission General Assembly International Symposium on Seismic Hazard Evaluation and Risk Reduction, Yerevan, Armenia, pp.234-239.

4) Sarkar, R. (2004), “Uttarkashi Landslides - A Case Study”, Hazards 2004 Conference (10^th International Symposium on Natural and Human Induced Hazards and 3rd Workshop of the IUGG Commission on Geophysical Risk and Sustainability), Hyderabad, India, pp. 651-655.

5) Sarkar, R. (2005), “Post-Earthquake Reconstruction - In context of Housing”, 2^nd AOGS (Asia Oceania Geosciences Society) Annual Meeting, Singapore, pp. 231-236.

6) Sarkar, R. (2005), “Housing and Post Earthquake Rebuilding Responses”, 1^st Bangladesh Earthquake Society International Symposium, Dhaka, Bangladesh, pp. 455-459.

7) Sarkar, R. (2006), “Post-Earthquake Housing Construction Using Low Cost Building Materials”, 4^th International Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Taipei, Taiwan, pp. 275-281.

8) Sarkar, R. (2006), “Sustainable Development and Post Earthquake Reconstruction”, 13^th Symposium on Earthquake Engineering, Roorkee, India, pp. 811-815.

9) Singh, G., Jain, A., Bhatia, M., Gupta, S., Gandhi, A., Sarkar, R. (2008), “Fly Ash and Its Safety Aspects - An Overview” 9^th International Symposium on Environmental Geotechnology and Global Sustainable Development, Hong Kong, pp. 685-489.

10) Sarkar, R. (2010), “Low Cost Building Materials and Earthquake Prone North East India”, 3^rd Bangladesh Earthquake Society International Symposium, Dhaka, Bangladesh, pp. 96-103. 

11) Verma, A., Saxena, M., Garg, A., Khanna, N., Sharma, P., Sarkar, R. (2010), “Pond Ash as a Landfill Liner”, 6^rd International Congress on Environmental Geotechnics, Delhi, India, pp. 349-353. 

12) Sarkar, R., Abbas, S.M., Shahu, J.T. (2011), “Study of Geotechnical Behaviour of Pond Ash When Mixed with Bentonite” International Conference on Geotechnics for Sustainable Development – Geotec Hanoi 2011 (ISBN 978-604-82-000-8), Hanoi, Vietnam, pp. 647-652.

13) Sarkar, R., Narang, K, Adhikari, S., Chauhan, S., Diksha, Adhikari, B. (2016), “Retrofitting of a Building Damaged by 2015 Nepal Earthquake”, International Conference on Earthquake Engineering and Post Disaster Reconstruction Planning (ISSN 2505-0737), Bhaktapur, Nepal, pp. 278-285.

14) Sarkar, R., Diksha, Mishra, D., Mudgal, A. (2016), “Hill Slope Stability Analysis – A Case Study of Dehradun”, International Conference on Trends and Recent Advances in Civil Engineering, (ISBN 978-93-86238-00-9), pp. 172-182.

15) Dorji, C., Sarkar, R. (2017), “Earthquake Disaster in Bhutan and Snake and Ladder Game as Safety Measures”, WASEDA-YNU Seminar on Complex Disaster around the World II, Tokyo, Japan, pp 78-81.

16) Dikshit, A., Satyam, N., Sarkar, R., Narang, K. (2017), “Using Hydrological Model for Landslide Forecasting in Chibo Pashyor, Kalimpong (West Bengal, India), International Conference on Disaster Risk Mitigation, Dhaka, Bangladesh, pp 137-140.

17) Sarkar, R., Narang, K., Sharma, P. (2017), “Integrating Disaster Risk and Mitigation Studies with a Building Information Modelling Implemented Project”, International Conference on Disaster Risk Mitigation, Dhaka, Bangladesh, pp 121-124.

18) Sarkar, R., Mudgal, A., Kurar, R. and Gupta, V. (2017), “Effective Design of Flexible Pavement on Treated Expansive Soil”, 4^thCongrès International de Géotechnique - Ouvrages –Structures (CIGOS), https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6713-6_46, pp. 459-470, Springer.

19) Dawson, A.R., Neves, L.A.C., Sarkar, R., Dijkstra T. (2018), “Bhutanese Road and Bridge Resilience to Floods and Landslides—First Suggestions for Assessment and Response”, 37^th Annual Southern African Transport Conference, Pretoria, South Africa, pp 48–57.

C) National Proceedings

1) Sarkar, R., Diksha, Mishra, D. and Mudgal, A. (2016), “A review on recycling of construction and demolition waste”, National Conference on Technical Advancements in Civil Engineering (ISBN 978-93-85777-52-3), Phagwara, Punjab, pp. 126-135.

2) Sarkar, R., Diksha, Mishra, D. and Mudgal, A. (2016), “A review on study on effect of various admixtures on geotechnical properties of expansive soils”, National Conference on Technical Advancements in Civil Engineering (ISBN 978-93-85777-52-3), Phagwara, Punjab, pp. 136-151.

3) Sarkar, R., Das, A., Bajaj, A., Mahajan, A. and Mudgal, A. (2016), “Modelling of MDD and OMC Using Artificial Neural Network”, National Conference on Advances in Geotechnical Engineering (ISBN 978-93-85777-60-8), Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, pp. 151-155.

 

A) Book

1) Sarkar, R., Shaw, R., Pradhan, B. (eds.) (2022), “Impact of Climate Change, Land Use and Land Cover, and Socio-Economic Dynamics on Landslides”, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-7314-6, Springer, Singapore.

2) Sarkar, R., Saha, S., Adhikari, B.R., Shaw, R.  (eds.) (2024), “Geomorphic Risk Reduction Using Geospatial Methods and Tools”, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-7707-9, Springer, Singapore.

 

B) Book Chapters 

1) Sarkar, R., Shrivastava, A.K., Mudgal, A. (2019), “An Experimental Investigation on Bearing Capacity Behaviour of Rectangular Footing over Reinforced Soft Soil Slope”, Innovation for Sustainable Infrastructure, Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering,  [Ha-Minh C., Dao D., Benboudjema F., Derrible S., Huynh D., Tang A. (eds)], vol. 54, CIGOS 2019, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-0802-8_141, 883-888, Springer.

2) Dorji, L., Sarkar, R., Lhachey, U., Sharma, V., Tshewang, Dikshit, A., Kurar, R. (2019), “An Evaluation of Hydrological Modeling Using SCS-CN Method in Ungauged Om Chhu River Basin of Phuentsholing, Bhutan”, An Interdisciplinary Approach for Disaster Resilience and Sustainability, [I. Pal et al. (eds.)], https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-32-9527-8_7, 111-121, Springer.

3) Sarkar, R., Narang, K., Sharma, P., Pal, I., Dikshit, A. (2019), “Risk Identification, Assessment and Disaster Risk Reduction of a Building Information Modeling (BIM) Implemented Project”, An Interdisciplinary Approach for Disaster Resilience and Sustainability, [I. Pal et al. (eds.)], https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-32-9527-8_17, 289-309, Springer. 

4) Sarkar R., Narang K., Daalia A., Gautam V., Nathani U., Shaw R. (2021), "Incorporation of BIM Based Modeling in Sustainable Development of Green Building from Stakeholders Perspective", Ecosystem-Based Disaster and Climate Resilience. Disaster and Risk Research: GADRI Book Series, [Mukherjee and Shaw (eds.)], https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-4815-1_13, 307-323, Springer. 

5) Hosenuzzaman M., Kibria M.G., Sarkar R., Abedin M.A. (2022), “Landslide, Agricultural Vulnerability, and Community Initiatives: A Case Study in South-East Part of Bangladesh”, In: Impact of Climate Change, Land Use and Land Cover, and Socio-economic Dynamics on Landslides, R. Sarkar et al. (eds), https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-7314-6_5, Springer.

6) Sarkar R., Parvesh, Pooja, Shivhare P., Gowhar S. (2022), “Comparison Between Two Different Methods Applied to Define Rainfall Thresholds for Landslide Forecasting in Idukki District of Kerala, India”, In: Impact of Climate Change, Land Use and Land Cover, and Socio-economic Dynamics on Landslides, R. Sarkar et al. (eds), https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-7314-6_7, Springer.

7) Mukherjee S., Sarkar R., Wangchuk T. (2022), “Prediction of Amount of Rainfall on Landslide Day Using Artificial Neural Network for Bhutan In: Impact of Climate Change, Land Use and Land Cover, and Socio-economic Dynamics on Landslides, R. Sarkar et al. (eds), https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-7314-6_8, Springer.

8) Sarkar R., Saha S., Roy J., Bhardwaj D. (2022), “Measuring Landslide Susceptibility of Phuentsholling, Bhutan Using Novel Ensemble Machine Learning Methods”, In: Impact of Climate Change, Land Use and Land Cover, and Socio-economic Dynamics on Landslides, R. Sarkar et al. (eds), https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-7314-6_9, Springer.

9) Saha S., Sarkar R., Roy J., Bayen B., Bhardwaj D., Wangchuk T. (2022), “Application of RBF and MLP Neural Networks Integrating with Rotation Forest in Modeling Landslide Susceptibility of Sampheling, Bhutan”, In: Impact of Climate Change, Land Use and Land Cover, and Socio-economic Dynamics on Landslides, R. Sarkar et al. (eds), https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-7314-6_10, Springer.

10) Saha S., Sarkar R., Roy J., Saha T.K., Bhardwaj D., Acharya S. (2022), “Predicting the Landslide Susceptibility Using Ensembles of Bagging with RF and REPTree in Logchina, Bhutan”, In: Impact of Climate Change, Land Use and Land Cover, and Socio-economic Dynamics on Landslides, R. Sarkar et al. (eds), https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-7314-6_12, Springer.

11) Kaur H., Sarkar R., Gupta S., Parkash S., Thapa R., Meena S.R. (2022), “The Vulnerability of Human Population to Landslide Disaster: A Case Study of Sikkim Himalayas”, In: Impact of Climate Change, Land Use and Land Cover, and Socio-economic Dynamics on Landslides, R. Sarkar et al. (eds), https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-7314-6_14, Springer.

12) Thapa G., Sarkar R., Bhardwaj D., Dorji L. (2022), “Slope Stabilization Using Soil Nails, Practice and Construction Realities: A Case Study on the Construction of Soil Nailed Wall Along Phuentsholing-Thimphu Highway, Bhutan”, In: Impact of Climate Change, Land Use and Land Cover, and Socio-economic Dynamics on Landslides, R. Sarkar et al. (eds), https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-7314-6_20, Springer.

13) Saha, S., Saha, A., Roy, B., Chaudhary, A. and Sarkar, R. (2024), “Artificial Neural Network Ensemble with General Linear Model for Modeling the Landslide Susceptibility in Mirik Region of West Bengal, India”, In: Geomorphic Risk Reduction Using Geospatial Methods and Tools”, R. Sarkar et al. (eds), https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-7707-9, Springer.

14) Saha, A., Roy, B., Saha, S., Chaudhary, A. and Sarkar, R. (2024), “An Advanced Hybrid Machine Learning Technique for Assessing the Susceptibility to Landslides in the Upper Meenachil River Basin of Kerala, India”, In: Geomorphic Risk Reduction Using Geospatial Methods and Tools”, R. Sarkar et al. (eds), https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-7707-9, Springer.

15) Saha, A., Saha, S., Chaudhary, A. and Sarkar, R. (2024), “Ensemble of M5P and Deep Learning Neural Network for Predicting Landslide Susceptibility: A Cross-Validation Approach”, In: Geomorphic Risk Reduction Using Geospatial Methods and Tools”, R. Sarkar et al. (eds), https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-7707-9, Springer.

16) Khatun, S., Saha, A., Gogoi, P., Saha, S. and Sarkar, R. (2024), “Assessment of Landslide Vulnerability Using Statistical and Machine Learning Methods in Bageshwar District of Uttarakhand, India”, In: Geomorphic Risk Reduction Using Geospatial Methods and Tools”, R. Sarkar et al. (eds), https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-7707-9, Springer.

17) Saha, S., Saha, A., Agarwal, A., Chaudhary, A. and Sarkar, R. (2024), “Spatial Flash Flood Modeling in the Beas River Basin of Himachal Pradesh, India, Using GIS-Based Machine Learning Algorithms”, In: Geomorphic Risk Reduction Using Geospatial Methods and Tools”, R. Sarkar et al. (eds), https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-7707-9, Springer.

18) Thapa, R., Sarkar, R., Gupta, S., Kaur, H. and Nasibul Alam (2024), “Geospatial Study of River Shifting and Erosion–Deposition Phenomenon Along a Selected Stretch of River Damodar, West Bengal, India, In: Geomorphic Risk Reduction Using Geospatial Methods and Tools”, R. Sarkar et al. (eds), https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-7707-9, Springer.

19) Dorji, L. and Sarkar, R. (2024), “An Evaluation of Hydrological Modeling Using CN Method and Satellite Images in Ungauged Barsa River Basin of Pasakha, Bhutan”, In: Geomorphic Risk Reduction Using Geospatial Methods and Tools”, R. Sarkar et al. (eds), https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-7707-9, Springer.

20) Saha, S., Saha, A., Sarkar, R., Mukherjee, K., Bhardwaj, D., and Chaudhary, A. (2024), “Measuring Landslide Susceptibility in Jakholi Region of Garhwal Himalaya Using Landsat Images and Ensembles of Statistical and Machine Learning Algorithms”, In: Geomorphic Risk Reduction Using Geospatial Methods and Tools”, R. Sarkar et al. (eds), https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-7707-9, Springer.

21) Sarkar, R., Chooreshwarsingh, B.S., and Pawar, A. (2024), “Landslide Susceptibility Mapping Using Satellite Images and GIS-Based Statistical Approaches in Part of Kullu District, Himachal Pradesh, India”, In: Geomorphic Risk Reduction Using Geospatial Methods and Tools”, R. Sarkar et al. (eds), https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-7707-9, Springer.

HONOURS:

Member, Subject Expert Committee (SEC) for Civil Engineering Curriculum Revamp, ALL INDIA COUNCIL FOR TECHNICAL EDUCATION (AICTE), A Statutory Body of the Govt. of India, Ministry of Education, Govt. of India

 

AWARDS:

1) Research Excellence Award – 2022 and 2023

2) Research Excellence & Innovation award – 2024 and 2025

 

KEY INDICATORS OF ESTEEM:

1) Chair, Commission on Education and Outreach, International Association of Seismology and Physics of Earth’s Interior (IASPEI) – 2019 - present

2) Co-Chair, Commission on Earthquake Hazard, Risk and Strong Ground Motion, IASPEI – 2019 - present

3) Co-Chair, Commission on Education and Outreach, International Association of Seismology and Physics of Earth’s Interior (IASPEI) – 2017 - 2019

4) Executive Member, Thematic Working Group - Disaster Risk Reduction, International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (HUC-ICIMOD) – 2017 - present

5) Executive Member, Thematic Working Group - Hill Infrastructure Resilience (HIR), South Asia Alliance of Disaster Research Institutes (SAADRI) – 2020 - Present

6) Executive Member, Thematic Working Group – Earthquake and Landslide Early Warning System (ELEWS), South Asia Alliance of Disaster Research Institutes – 2021 - Present

RESEARCH PROJECTS:

 

Sl.No.	Title of the project	Project Value	Granting agency	Date of commencement	Date of Completion
1	Development of National Highways Climate Adaptation Policy and Guidelines (HighCAP)	Rs. 2.75 Crore	MoRTH	2025	2026
2	Impact of Climate Change, Land Use Land Cover, and Socio-Economic Dynamics on Landslides in South and East Asia	UK £10.0k	International Science Council (ISC)	2019	2020
3	Resilience of a Himalayan Road Network	UK £10.0k	GCRF-NERC	2017	2018
4	Geo-hazard Risk Management and Asset Management in Bhutan	UK £11.0k	World Bank	2017	2018
5	BRACE: Building Bhutanese Resilience Against Cataclysmic Events	UK £196k	GCRF-NERC	2017	2018

 

 

 

INVITED PRESENTATIONS:

1) Guest Speaker, 3^rd International Conference of Geography and Disaster Management (ICGDM), 21 December, 2021, Surakarta, Indonesia.

2) Keynote, International Discussion of Geospatial Perspective on Disaster, 25 June, 2020, Surakarta, Indonesia.

3) International Symposium on ‘Disaster Resilience and Sustainable Development’ organized by Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand from 7-8 March, 2019.

4) Keynote, Workshop cum Faculty Development Programme on Climate Across the Curriculum: Educational Resources for Teachers, 14-15 February, 2019, Thimphu, Bhutan.

5) Keynote, ‘Building Bhutanese Resilience Against Cataclysmic Events (BRACE) Wrap up Workshop’ organized by University of Bristol, Bristol, U.K. from 19-21 March, 2018.

6) Invited Talk, ‘2nd Sino-South Asia Disaster Prevention and Reduction Forum’ organized by Sichuan University, Chengdu, China from 10-14 May, 2018.

7) Invited Talk, ‘Research Summit on Health-Related Emergency and Disaster Risk Management (H-EDRM)’ organized by Collaborating Centre for Oxford University and CUHK for Disaster and Medical Humanitarian Response at Hong Kong from 9-10 July, 2018.

8) Invited Talk, International workshop on ‘Introduction of the Seismic Network and Earthquake Early Warning System as well as Disaster Management Information System’ organized by National Science and Technology Center for Disaster Reduction, Taiwan at Taipei, Taiwan from 17-19 September, 2018.

9) Invited Talk, ‘HIWeather Workshop’ organized by World Meteorological Organization at Beijing, China from 20-22 November, 2018.

10) Invited Talk, ICIMOD Workshop on Disaster Resilience, 8-9 December, 2017, Kathmandu, Nepal.

11) Invited Talk, IAG-IASPEI Joint Assembly 2017, 30 July-4 August, 2017, Kobe, Japan.

12) Invited Talk, XXVIth International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics General Assembly, 22 June-2 July, 2015, Prague, Czech Republic.

13) Invited Talk, IAHS-IAPSO-IASPEI Joint Assembly 2013, 22-26 July, 2013, Gothenburg, Sweden.

14) Invited Talk, XI^th International Conference on Protection and Restoration of the Environment, 3-6 July, 2012, Thessaloniki, Greece.

15) Invited Talk, XXVth International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics General Assembly, 28 June-7 July, 2011, Melbourne, Australia.

16) Invited Talk, 3^rd Bangladesh Earthquake Society International Symposium, 5-6 March, 2010, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

 

WORKSHOP/CONFERENCE ORGANIZED:

A. International

1) Coordinator and Resource Person - Online International Workshop on “Role of Early Warning System in Geo-Meteorological Hazards Risk Reduction” during December 8-10^th December, 2021. (Funded GoI)

2) Coordinator - IASPEI Summer School on “Principles of Earthquake Location and its Correlation with Seismic Network Designs” during from 16-20^th August, 2021. (Online) (Funded by: CoEO-IASPEI) 

3) Coordinator - International Training Programme on “Earthquake Early Warning Systems for Bhutanese Young Researchers” during 26-27^th November, 2019 at New Delhi, India. (Funded by: CoEO-IASPEI)

4) Coordinator -  International Workshop on “Geohazards Risk Reduction Initiatives in South and South East Asia (GeoRiskSEA 2019)” organized by Civil Engineering Department at DTU during 21-22^nd November, 2019. (Funded by: TEQIP)

5) Member - 2019 International Training Workshop for “Natural Disaster Reduction” jointly organized by NCDR, IASPEI, GADRI in Taipei, Taiwan during 30^th April – 2^nd May, 2019. (Funded by NCDR-Taiwan)

6) Coordinator and Resource Person – Workshop cum Faculty Development Programme on “Climate Across the Curriculum: Educational Resources for Teachers” jointly organized by Commission on Education and Outreach, International Association of Seismology and Physics of Earth’s Interior (IASPEI) and Center for Disaster Risk Reduction and Community Development Studies (CDRR&CDS), Royal University of Bhutan under the global project- ‘Trans-disciplinary Research Oriented Pedagogy for Improving Climate Studies and Understanding’ (TROP-ICSU) in Thimphu, Bhutan during 14-15^th February, 2019. (Funded by ISC)

7) Adviser - 7^th International Science Conference organized by College of Science and Technology, Royal University of Bhutan at Rinchending, Bhutan during from 8-9^th December 2017.

8) Coordinator - SAARC Regional Workshop on “Application of Science and Technology in Earthquake Risk Mitigation for Urban Agglomerate in South Asia” organized by SAARC Disaster Management Centre (SDMC) in collaboration with Delhi Technological University (DTU) held on 24-25^thMay 2013 at New Delhi, INDIA. (Funded by: SDMC)

 

B. National

1) Coordinator and Resource Person – National level online Training Programme on “Seismic Structural Safety Audit of Structures” during 23^rd – 27^th November, 2020 at DTU.

2) Coordinator and Resource Person – National level Training Programme on “Geo-Meteorological Hazards Risk Management” during 10^th – 14^th February, 2020 at DTU.

3) Coordinator –  Faculty Development Programme on “Recent Trends in Geoenvironmental Engineering” organized by Civil Engineering Department at DTU during 18-22^nd April, 2016. 

 

1) Prof. S.M. Abbas, Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Jamia Millia Islamia

2) Prof. J.T. Shahu, Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

3) Prof. Mahua Mukherjee, Department of Architecture and Planning, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee

 

CURRENTLY HOLDING ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS AT DTU:

1) Associate Dean, Academic PG

2) Coordinator, Centre for Excellence in Disaster Risk Reduction