A guest lecture on 'Geotechnical Investigations: An Academician's Point of View' by Dr. Ashish Juneja, was organized by the American Society of Civil Engineers Student Chapter of Civil Engineering Department, PEC University of Technology, Chandigarh. Dr Juneja, Professor in department of civil engineering at IIT Bomaby is well known expert in Geotechnical, Soil Investigation, Ground Improvement etc. During his interaction with Faculty and students, he discussed his work in the field of Big Data Applications in Geotechnical Investigations, Numerical Modelling and many more areas. He also shared a detailed explanation on the study of soil liquefaction, replication of sand structure in laboratory testing and soil stiffness measurements at IIT Bombay, which have applications in mitigating earthquake related problems. Dr Siby John, Head Civil Engineering department presented a token of appreciation to the Dr Ashish, after the session.