Dr Rao Martand Singh is a Lecturer of Geotechnical Engineering in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Surrey, United Kingdom. Applying Geotechnical Engineering knowledge for solving problems relating to energy and environment is his passion. Previously he worked as a Research Fellow on geothermal energy pile foundation project at Monash University in Australia. He obtained his PhD from Geoenvironmental Research Centre, Cardiff University, MTech from IIT Delhi and BEng from MBM Jodhpur. His research interests include Geothermal energy pile foundation, soil-structure interaction, coal seam gas (CSG), wind farm collector system, gas/liquid permeability characteristic of cement bentonite used in cut-off walls and borehole walls, unsaturated geosynthetic clay liner (GCL), barrier design for nuclear waste, suction measurement techniques, thermo-hydro-mechanical (THM) behaviour of soils and geosynthetics and modification of bentonite to improve its retention capacity. He has several publications in peer-reviewed international and national journals.Prof. K. P. Sudheer is working as Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Madras, India. He has been a faculty of this institute since 2003, first as Assistant Professor and then as Associate Professor and, now as Professor. He has also taken the role of visiting faculty for many international universities. K. P. Sudheer obtained his bachelor degree in Civil Engineering from Kerala Agricultural University, India. He obtained his master’s degree in Structural Engineering from IIT Kharagpur and PhD from IIT Delhi. His research interests include Hydrologic Modelling, Stochastic Hydrology and Hydrological forecasting. He has many papers published in Refereed International and National Journals. Prof. Babu Kurian is the Dean and Head of the Department of Civil Engineering at Muthoot Institute of Technology & Science, Kerala, India. He has a Master Degree from IIT Bombay in Structural Engineering and a PhD from Structural Engineering Division of IIT Madras. He has more than 35 years of teaching and research experience. He is closely involved in the research and consultancy projects and is associating with various firms for finding practical solutions for problems related to Civil and Structural Engineering. He has published papers in reputed journals and conferences. He has served as a member of the Board of Studies (PG Engineering) of Mahatma Gandhi University and is an executive committee member of Institution of Engineers (India), Kerala Chapter.
