Khaled Chowdhury, Ph.D., P.E., G.E.
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Senior Geotechnical Engineer and Headquarters National Earthquake Program Policy Advisor
Dr. Khaled Chowdhury is a senior geotechnical engineer at the USACE South Pacific Division Dam Safety Production Center in Sacramento, California and is also the USACE Headquarters National Earthquake Program policy advisor. Khaled has over 22 years of experience in evaluation, design, and construction of infrastructure projects. He currently provides technical leadership on several major dams and levees evaluation and design projects nationwide, addressing static and seismic potential failure modes. Khaled contributed or is currently contributing to development of several USACE and California DWR guidance and regulatory documents on dams and levees. Khaled earned his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley under supervision of Professor Raymond B. Seed. Khaled’s research and practice areas include site characterization, soil liquefaction, residual strength, seismic deformation analyses, seepage cutoff walls, and levee and dam design and construction, and he has authored about 30 technical papers on these topics. Khaled is a member of the seismic cadre of the USACE, which has been formed to evaluate seismic risk of USACE dams. Khaled is the lead instructor for USACE prospect course on seismic stability of embankment dams.
