Pankaj Gupta, Principal scientist in CSIR-Central Road Research Institute, an autonomous institute under Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Ministry of Science & Technology, Govt. of India. He is having more than 22 years research experience in the field of geology and in engineering geology. He worked in many research and consultancy projects related to slope stability and other Geotechnical issues with especial reference to mountain roads. He did his Masters in Applied Geology from the University of Roorkee (now it is named as IIT Roorkee). He also did his Ph. D. from University of Roorkee. He has published 25 research papers in international/National Journal/conference/Symposium/seminar etc. He has received UGC/CSIR fellowship and best paper awards and guided many B.E. & M. Sc. Students for their thesis work. He was external examiner for the doctoral thesis evaluation, member of many professional bodies and member of Bureau of Indian Standard committee for making BIS Code. He is a reviewer for many research journals and has reviewed the papers for the Fifth International Conference on case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering, New York, NY April 13-17, 2004. Travelled in many countries across Europe.