Intelligent Infrastructure and Smart Materials

Dr. Shray Pathak is working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, Rupnagar, Punjab, India. Dr. Pathak has received the Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from the National Institute of Technology (NIT), Kurukshetra, India in June 2012 and completed his Master’s and Ph.D. degree in Civil Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India in June 2014 and February 2019 respectively. His research interests include hydrology, remote sensing, GIS, urban sustainability and climate change and mainly focuses on the risk assessment analysis of urban flooding in coastal and non-coastal regions under extreme climate scenarios. Till date he has amassed over 50 publications, spanning peer-reviewed journals, conferences, books and book chapters. Dr. Anoop Kumar Shukla is an Assistant Professor at Manipal School of Architecture and Planning (MSAP), Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, Karnataka, India. He holds eight years of research experience in Research & Development in Geomatics Engineering, Water and Wastewater Management, and related subjects. Dr. Shukla has published 35 high-impact journal papers, 45 International/National Conference papers, and 23 book chapters. He earned his M.Tech in Geomatics Engineering and Ph.D. in Remote Sensing and GIS applications in water resources planning and management from the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India. Dr. Shukla is a reviewer for more than 90 peer-reviewed international SCI journals.Dr. Shreya Sharma serves as the Research and Development (R&D) and Corporate Manager at the Agriculture and Water Technology Development Hub (AWaDH), a Technology Innovation Foundation (TIF) at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Ropar in Rupnagar, Punjab, India. She earned her Bachelor's degree in Commerce (B.Com) in 2015, followed by a Master's degree in Business Administration (MBA) with a specialization in Finance in 2017. In 2023, she completed her Ph.D. in Management from Devi Ahilya University, Indore. Her research interests span various domains, including capital market finance, corporate finance, green finance, environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors, as well as sustainability and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Professor Vijay P. Singh is a Distinguished Professor, a Regents Professor, and the inaugural holder of the Caroline and William N. Lehrer Distinguished Chair in Water Engineering at Texas A&M University, USA. He received his B.Sc & Tech., M.S., Ph.D. and D.Sc. degrees, all in engineering. He is a registered professional engineer, a registered professional hydrologist, and an Honorary Diplomate of ASCE-AAWRE. He is a member of National Academy of Engineering (NAE), an Academician of Georgia Fazisi Academy, a member of European Academy of Sciences and Arts, and a fellow/member of 12 other international science/engineering academies. He is a Distinguished Member of ASCE, an Honorary Distinguished Member of IWRA, a Distinguished Fellow of AGGS, and an Honorary Member of AWRA, and a Fellow of AGU, EWRI, ASCE, IAH, ISAE, IWRS, and IASWC. He has published extensively in the areas of hydrology, irrigation engineering, hydraulics, groundwater, hydraulic geometry, water quality, food-water-energy-environment nexus, water resources, entropy theory, copula theory, and climate change impacts with more than 1570 refereed journal articles; 40 books; 95 edited reference books, as well as the Handbook of Applied Hydrology and Encyclopedia of Snow, Ice and Glaciers; 130 book chapters; and 330 conference papers. His Google Scholar citations are more than 105,231; h-index of 134; and I10-index of 1226. He has received four honorary doctorates from Italy and Canada, and more than 115 national and international awards.

• 1 Factors Responsible for Sustainable Habitat.- 2 Optimizing Bentonite Clay Stabilization with Copper Slag for Resilient Infrastructure.- 3 Optimizing Pavement Condition Index Prediction using PSO-LSTM Hybrid Algorithm.- 4 Innovative Light-Emitting Concrete.- 5 Cost-Benefit of Different Insulation Alternatives for Indian Residential Buildings in the Warm and Humid Regions.- 6 Sustainable Water Management in the Digital Age.- 7 Evaluation of Industrial By-Products as Partial Fine Aggregate Replacements in Concrete.- 8 Machine Learning Perspectives on Solar Panel Efficiency.- 9 Environmental Consequences of Rapid Industrialization.- 10 Comparatıve Assessment of Wındow Technology to Achıeve Energy Effıcıency.- 11 Recent Advancements Towards Leveraging the Role of Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture and Smart Farming.- 12 Hydrodynamic Analysis of Raceway Pond Using LES Turbulence Model.- 13 Water Scarcity and Climate Change in Intelligent Infrastructure and Smart Materials.- 14 Advanced Geotechnical Analysis and Mitigation of Slope Stability in Dharchula, Pithoragarh, Uttarakhand Using GeoStudio Software.- 15 Innovative Geopolymer Mortar.- 16 Slope Stability Analysis of Rainfall Induced Landslide, Malin, Maharashtra.- 17 Experimental Assessment of Ultra High-Performance Fiber Reinforced Concrete for Bridge Applications.- 18 Modelling of Temporal Clear Water Scour Depth Around Bridge Piers Using XGBoost and SVM-PSO.- 19 Circular Economy and Construction Industry.- 20 Experimental Analysis of Fly Ash and Bagasse Ash Integration as Sustainable Stabilizers for Improving the Engineering Properties of Black Cotton Soil.