Dr. Netra Prakash Bhandary is a Professor of Civil Engineering at Ehime University in Japan. He has a bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering from Aligarh Muslim University of India, a master's degree in Geotechnical Engineering, and a Ph.D. in Engineering from Ehime University, focusing on the geotechnics of creeping landslides. His major fields of research are creeping landslide mechanisms and seismic ground-shaking behavior.