1. Ankit Garg
Assistant Professor
Civil Engineering department
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Guwahati
Co-founder of AAIRG (Applied Artificial Intelligence research group)
Email: g.ankit2@iitg.ac.in
KEY EXPERTISE:
1. Root-soil-water-microbe-atmosphere interaction
2. Soil-fiber-root interaction
3. Applications of Artificial intelligence in geo-environmental engineering
EDUCATION:
Year Degree/Certificate Institute/School CGPA/%
2010-2015
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D) in Civil and Hong Kong University of Science
3.63/4
Environmental Engineering and Technology, Hong Kong
2006-2010 B.Tech in Civil Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology
8.28/10
(IIT), Guwahati, India
2006 Class XII
Govt. Balbir Senior Secondary
76.8%
School, India
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
1. Visiting Scientist, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Macau, Macau, China
(From Dec 2nd to Dec 28th 2015)
2. Visiting Scientist, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Macau, Macau, China
(From June 14th
to July14th 2015)
3. Visiting Scholar, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, HKUST. Hong Kong (From Feb-Mar
2015)
4. Part time Research Assistant, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, HKUST. Hong Kong (From
Feb-Mar 2015)
5. University of Karlsruhe (now KIT), Germany (from May-July, 2009)
6. Wilbursmith India Pvt. Ltd, Bangalore (from Dec-Jan, 2009)
7. Gammon India LTd. Guwahati, Assam, India (from May- June, 2008)
SPONSORED RESEARCH PROJECTS:
1. A Study on soil-water hyacinth interaction for reinforcement. Recipient of FAST Track Project Grant from DST-
SERB, India. (Principal Investigator)
2. Vegetation types and its characteristics on soil settlement. Project approved by IIT Guwahati,
India.(Principal Investigator)
3. *Experimental study and constitutive modelling of monotonic and cyclic behaviour of unsaturated loess at
different temperatures members: ZHOU Chao, GUO Ning, CHEN Hongxin, GARG Ankit, CHEN Zhongkui, COO
Jason, SADEGHI Hamed, CHENG Qin. Agency funding project: National Natural Science Foundation of China

2. 4. * “Field Monitoring and Numerical Investigation on Ground Settlements Induced by Root Water Uptake of
Vegetation”, Research Committee of University of Macau. Grant No.: MYRG2015-00112-FST,
*International Research Collaborator
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS (SCI):
1. Ng, C.W.W., Garg, A.,Leung, A.K and Hau, B.C.H (2016). Relationships between leaf and root area indices and
soil suction induced during drying-wetting cycles. Journal of Ecological Engineering. 91, 113-118
2. Bordoloi S, Yasmani S, Garg, A, Sreedeep S,Borah, S. (2015) Study on the efficacy of harmful weed species
Eicchornia crassipes for soil reinforcement. Journal of Ecological Engineering. Vol. 85, 218-222 (Impact factor:
3.23; Class A )
3. Garg, A. Leung, A.K., and Ng, C.W.W. (2015). Comparisons of suction induced by evapotranspiration and
transpiration of S. heptaphylla. Canadian Geotechnical Journal. 52 (999), 1-7. (Class A; Impact factor: 1.2)
4. Garg, A. and Ng, C.W.W. (2015). Investigation of soil density effect on suction induced by root water uptake.
Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science.DOI: 10.1002/jpln.201400265. (Impact factor: 1.45; Class B)
5. Garg, A., Coo, J.L. and Ng, C.W.W. (2015). Field investigations on suction distributions in slopes vegetated
with Cynodon dactylon and Schefflera heptaphylla. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. DOI:
10.1002/esp.3743 (Impact factor: 2.845; Class A)
6. Garg, A., Ng, C.W.W., and Leung, A.K., (2015) New transpiration reduction and root distribution
functions for Schefflera heptaphylla. Catena 135, 78-82 . (Class A; Impact factor: 3)
7. Garg, A, Garg, A., Zhou Huan-Wan, Tai, K. and Deo C M. (2015). A new simulation approach of genetic
programming in modelling of soil water retention property of unsaturated soil. Engineering Computations.
32 (3), 914-930 (Impact factor = 1.4; Class A in Engineering)
8. Ankit Garg, Akhil Garg, K. Tai, (2015). Study of soil water retention behavior under different crop root
content using new heuristic genetic programming approach. Engineering computations. Vol. 32 Iss: 3.
doi/abs/10.1108/EC-05-2014-0110 (Impact factor = 1.4; Class A in Engineering)
9. Ankit Garg, Akhil Garg, K. Tai, Barontini, S, Stokes, A. (2014). A computational intelligence based
genetic programming approach in simulation of hydraulic property of the three different soils. Transport in
porous media, 103 (3), 497-513. (Impact factor: 1.46; Class A)
10. Ankit Garg, Akhil Garg, Sreedeep S, Kang Tai (2014). Estimation of pore water pressure of soil using
genetic programming. Journal of Geotechnical and Geological Engineering , 32 (4), 765-772. DOI:
10.1007/s10706-014-9755-6(Impact factor: NA; Class B)
11. Zhou Huan-Wan, Garg, A and Xu Xu. (2015).Measurement of unsaturated shear strength parameters of silty
sand and its correlation with unconfined compressive strength. Journal of Measurement (accepted with minor
revision) (Impact factor: 1.4; Class B )
12. Leung, A.K., Garg, A., Ng, C.W.W (2015). Effects of S. heptaphylla on energy interception, water retention
ability and their influences on induced soil suction. Engineering Geology. 193, 183-197 (Impact factor: 2.2;
Class A)
13. Leung, A.K., Garg, A., Ng, C.W.W, and Hau, B.C.H (2015). Field study of infiltration rates and suctions in
different vegetated ground. Hydrological Processes.DOI: 10.1002/hyp.10452 (Impact factor: 2.67; Class A)
14. Ng, C.W.W., Leung, A..K., Kamchoom, V., and Garg, A. (2014). A Novel Root System for Simulating
Transpiration-induced Soil Suction in Centrifuge. Geotechnical Testing Journal 37 (5), 1-15. (Impact factor:
0.7; Class A )
15. Akhil Garg Ankit Garg and Jasmine lam (2015) Evolving Functional Expression of Permeability of Fly Ash
by a New Evolutionary Approach. Transport in porous media, 107 (2), 555-571(Impact factor: 1.46; Class A)
16. Garg, A., Garg, Ankit., Tai, K., Sreedeep S. (2014). An integrated SRM-multi-gene genetic programming
approach for prediction of factor of safety of 3-D soil nailed slopes ", Engineering Applications of Artificial
Intelligence, Vol. 30,pp. 30-40. (Impact factor: 2.5; Class A)
17. Garg, A., Garg, Ankit., Tai, K., Sreedeep S. (2014). Estimation of factor of safety of rooted slope using an
evolutionary approach. Ecological Engineering., 64, 314-324. (Impact factor: 3.23, Class A )

3. 18. Garg, A., Garg, A., & Tai, K. (2013). A multi-gene genetic programming model for estimating stress-
dependent soil water retention curves. Computational Geosciences, 18 (1), 45-56. (Impact factor: 1.8, Class A )
19. Garg, A., Malaya, C. and Sreedeep, S. (2010). "A study on the influence of soil-water characteristic curve on
the seepage modeling of unsaturated soil" International Journal of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Vol. 3, No.
2, pp. 40-46. (Impact factor: NA, Class C)
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS:
1. K. Harsha Vardhan , Shubhankar Jha , Sanandam Bordoloi, Ankit Garg, Sreedeep S (2015). Compressive
Strength Model of Soil Reinforced with Polypropylene Fiber. Proceedings of Indian Geotechnical Conference,
Pune, India
2. Bordoloi, S.,Yamsani, S. K., Sreedeep,S., Garg, A (2015). Unconfined compressive strength of natural
fiber reinforced soil. Tech Expo 2015, Techniche, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Guwahati, India.
3. Bordoloi, S., Mourya, S., Paramar, S., Sreedeep,S., Garg, A (2015). Soil reinforced with harmful Eichornia
Crasspes fiber as a cheap alternative for rural infrastructure. Proceedings of IISF 2015 (India International
Science Festival), New Delhi, India.
4. Bordoloi, S., Mourya, S., Kashyap, V., Sreedeep,S., Garg, A (2015).Effect of variation in soil density on
the strength characteristics of soil reinforced with Eichornia crassipes fiber. 19th Southeast Asian
Geotechnical Conference & 2nd AGSSEA Conference (19SEAGC & 2AGSSEA) KualaLumpur 31 May – 3
June 2016.
5. Ng, C.W.W., Leung, A.K., Garg, A., Woon, K.X., and Hau, B.C.H (2013). Soil suction induced by grass
and tree in an atmospheric-controlled plant room. Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Soil
Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Paris 2013
6. Garg, A., Leung, A.K., Ng, C.W.W. and Hau, B.C.H (2012). Effects of Plant Transpiration on Suction
Distribution in a Vegetated Soil Slope. Proceedings of EUNSAT 2012 (Europeon conference on unsaturated
soils), Napoli, Italy.
7. Garg, A., Malaya, C. and Sreedeep, S. (2010). "Influence of different suction measuring procedures on
SWCC and seepage modeling in unsaturated soils" 6ICEG 2010 (International Congress on Environmental
Geotechnics), New Delhi,India.
8. Garg, A., Malaya, C. and Sreedeep, S. (2009). "A study on the influence of soil-water characteristic curve
on the seepage modeling of unsaturated soil" International Conference on Advances in Concrete, Structural,
and Geotechnical Engineering, BITS Pilani, India.
INVITED SEMINARS
 Green Geotechnics: Use of vegetation for enhancing soil strength at University of Macau (June 25th,
2015)
 Use of harmful and waste weed species for enhancing soil strength at University of Macau (Dec 24th,
2015)
 Green: Application of vegetation for enhancing soil strength at South China University of Technology,
Guangzhou, China (Dec 19th, 2015)
 Sustainable Geotechnical Engineering at University of Macau During Nobel Laureate Christmas
Symposium (Dec 25th
, 2015).
 Inter-disciplinary research and International Collaborations: Invited keynote speaker at Research
Conclave at IIT Guwahati (19th
March, 2016)
 Invited lecture at Indo-German workshop at Ruhr University, Germany on “Critical Appraisal on air
entry value determination” (25th
Feb, 2016)

4. INVITED EDITORIALSHIP
 Journal of Earth and Environmental Science. Proceedings of International Conference on Agricultural
and Biological Sciences (ABS2015)
 Journal of Civil and Architectural Engineering
 Journal of geological resource and Engineering
INVITED REVIEWER
 Canadian Geotechnical Journal
 Computer and Geotechnics
 Ecological Engineering
 Environmental Geotechnics
 Journal of Measurement
 Journal of Cleaner production
 Engineering Computations
 International Conference on Agricultural and Biological Sciences (ABS2015).
 Journal of Geological Resource and Engineering (ISSN 2328-2193)
 European journal of Soil Science
 Neural Computing and Applications
 Journal of Cleaner Production
 Journal of Advanced manufacturing
 Journal of Zhejiang University,
 Frontiers of Mechanical Engineering
STUDENT SUPERVISION
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3 PhD students and 28 Undergraduate students at IIT Guwahati, India (Ongoing)
8 Undergraduate and 3 Master students at HKUST, Hong Kong: 8 students for their final year
undergraduate projects out of which 3 students won Gold Cup in HKUST President Award and 1 student won Best
Undergraduate Geotechnical Project award in Hong Kong by Hong Kong Institution of Engineers
ACHIEVEMENTS/RESPONSIBILITIES
 Organized and founder of “Research Wave”, a first ever research competition co-organized with help of
Alumni and Association of Civil Engineers (ACE) of IIT Guwahati to promote and nuture research
environment among student community.
 Faculty coordinator of Associate of Civil Engineers (ACE) at IIT Guwahati from October 2015 Onwards.
 Recipient of prestigious Hong Kong Ph.D. Fellowship award for pursuing Ph.D. at university in Hong Kong.
This award was awarded to total 110 students including all disciplines internationally in 2010.
 Secured province rank 4th and an all India rank of 140 out of around 0.5 million students in All India
Engineering Entrance Examination (AIEEE).
 Recipient of CBSE merit scholarship from MHRD for excellent performance in AIEEE.
 Recipient of DAAD scholarship for executing summer research project in Germany.

5.  Recipient of MCM (Merit cum mean) Scholarship at Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati.
 3rd Prize in “Chanakya neeti “an event consisting of case study related to volatility in stock market in an annual
techno-management festival “Techniche”,
 3rd Prize in Business plan competition organized by Entrepreneurship cell of IIT Guwahati for presenting
innovative plan to compete with Amul Diary.
 Served as DAAD young Ambassador (from 2010-2011) for promotion of higher studies in Germany