Dr. Raviraj H. Mulangi is currently working as an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at the National Institute of Technology Karnataka (NITK) Surathkal. He obtained his Ph.D from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc.), Bangalore in 2015. His research interests are road safety audit, public transportation and highway geometric design. He has published more than 35 research articles in reputed journals. He is the State Technical Agencies (STA) Coordinator for Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) Projects. Dr. Aravind Krishna Swamy is currently working as a Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi. Over past 22 years of career, he has worked on several projects funded by agencies like the Department of Science and Technology of the Government of India, the National Science Foundation (USA), New Hampshire Department of Transportation and the Asian Development Bank. He has presented over 80 scholarly articles, among which 45 are published in reputed international journals. He has served as a subject expert at various national organizations and committees including the Indian Roads Congress, CSIR Labs and the Bureau of Indian Standards. He also serves as an associate editor for various journals including the International Journal of Pavement Engineering, Sadhana (Indian Academy of Sciences) and Institute of Engineers (India). He is recipient of Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru Birth Centenary Award, Indian Roads Congress for his contribution to highway sector in India. His current research and teaching interests include bituminous material characterization, recycling of pavement materials, viscoelasticity, pavement engineering and design, forensic analysis of pavements, machine learning, and optimization techniques. Dr. Siau Chen Chian (Darren) is currently the President of the Geotechnical Society of Singapore. He is also an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the National University of Singapore. He pursued his Bachelors degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore and his Ph.D from the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom. He has received many awards for his contributions to research and teaching. He has presented over 100 scholarly articles and has published more than 80 articles in reputed international journals. He has also edited 3 books. His research interests include sustainable materials, ground improvement, earthquake engineering, centrifuge modelling, post-failure field investigation, protective technology and remote sensing. Dr. Sreevalsa Kolathayar is the Professor in charge at the Institution Innovation Council (IIC) and works as an Associate Professor in Civil Engineering at NITK, Surathkal. He pursued M.Tech from IIT Kanpur, PhD from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), and served as International Research Staff at UPC BarcelonaTech, Spain. Dr Sreevalsa has authored five books, edited 16 books, authored over 150 research articles and holds two patents. He is on the Editorial Board of several international Journals. He is on the roster of two technical committees of ASCE Geo-Institute and is an Expert Member of the Working Groups of BIS CED 39 for three IS codes. Dr. Sreevalsa currently has eight funded R&D projects worth INR 10 crores and has completed over 100 civil engineering consultancy projects.
