Geoenvironmental Engineering: Proceedings of Egrwse-23, Volume 1

Dr. Arvind Kumar Agnihotri is Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at NIT Jalandhar. He completed his Ph.D. from IIT Roorkee, M.Tech. from NIT Kurukshetra and B.E. from Panjab University Chandigarh. He possesses a work experience of around 34 years in research, teaching, and academic administration, with several years spent holding key leadership positions. His areas of interest are geotechnical and geoenvironmental engineering, reinforced earth (geosynthetics and geofibers), ground improvement and soil-structure interaction. He has supervised 15 Ph.D. theses and 58 M.Tech. dissertations. He has 85 publications in international refereed journals and 60 publications in various national and international conferences/symposia. He has served Head of the Civil Engineering department, Dean Academics, Dean Planning and Development, and officiated as Campus Director at Dr. B R Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar. He has completed several sponsored projects, including World Bank projects. He is Fellow/Member of many professional organizations like ASCE, IGS, ISTE, ISSMGE and IRC. He has organized many national and international events successfully. He has edited 5 books, and he is Reviewer of many international journals.

Dr. Krishna R. Reddy is University Scholar, Distinguished Researcher, and Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Director of both the Sustainable Engineering Research and Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering laboratories at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC), USA. He received his Ph.D. in civil engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago. Prior to joining UIC, he worked for three years in consulting as Geotechnical/Geoenvironmental Engineer. His research expertise includes environmental remediation, waste containment, beneficial use of waste and recycled materials and sustainable and resilient engineering. Dr. Reddy has authored four books, 298 journal papers, 30 edited books and conference proceedings, 25 book chapters and 200 conference papers. His h-index is 73 with more than 18,000 citations. Because of his excellent contributions, Dr. Reddy received several awards, such as the Fulbright US Scholar Award, ASCE Wesley W. Horner Award, ASTM Hogentogler Award, UIC Distinguished Researcher Award, University of Illinois Scholar Award and the University of Illinois Award for Excellence in Teaching. He is Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers.

Dr. Ajay Bansal is Professor of Chemical Engineering at Dr. B R Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar, India. He received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Panjab University, Chandigarh; M.Tech. from Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi; and B. E. from Government Engineering College, Raipur (now NIT Raipur). He received the university gold medal for being first in his batch of B.E. at Pt. Ravishankar University, Raipur. He has served as Head of Chemical Engineering Department for two terms and was Associate Dean for Research and Consultancy at NIT Jalandhar. Dr. Bansal has more than 28 years of teaching, consulting and research experience within the fields of chemical and environmental engineering. His research expertise includes areas, such as nano-photocatalysis, advanced oxidation processes, waste water treatment, solid waste management, multiphase reactors, and rheologically complex fluids. He has supervised 8 Ph.D. dissertations, published 3 books, 3 book chapters, 45 journal papers and 65 conference papers. Dr. Bansal is on the editorial board and is Reviewer of many journals. He has been Active Member of various professional societies and is Fellow of Institution of Engineers (India) and Fellow of Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers (IIChE), Kolkata. Dr. Bansal has served twice as Vice-President of IIChE. He has been Chairman and Honorary Secretary of Doaba Regional Centre of IIChE as well.

阿爾文·庫馬·阿格尼霍特里博士是賈蘭達爾國立技術學院土木工程系的教授。他在印度理工學院魯爾基獲得博士學位，在庫魯克舍特拉國立技術學院獲得碩士學位，並在旁遮普大學昌迪加爾獲得工程學士學位。他擁有約34年的研究、教學和學術管理經驗，並在多個關鍵領導職位上工作多年。他的研究興趣包括土木工程與環境工程、加強土壤（地工合成材料和地工纖維）、地基改良和土壤-結構相互作用。他已指導15篇博士論文和58篇碩士論文。他在國際同行評審期刊上發表了85篇論文，並在各類國內外會議/研討會上發表了60篇論文。他曾擔任土木工程系主任、學術院院長、規劃與發展院院長，並在賈蘭達爾的德·B·R·安貝德卡國立技術學院擔任校園主任。他完成了多個贊助項目，包括世界銀行項目。他是多個專業組織的院士/成員，如美國土木工程師學會（ASCE）、印度地質學會（IGS）、印度科學與工程技術學會（ISTE）、國際土木工程與環境工程學會（ISSMGE）和印度公路學會（IRC）。他成功組織了多個國內外活動，編輯了5本書籍，並擔任多個國際期刊的審稿人。

克里希納·R·雷迪博士是伊利諾伊大學芝加哥分校（UIC）土木與環境工程的教授、傑出研究員及可持續工程研究和土木與環境工程實驗室的主任。他在伊利諾伊理工學院獲得土木工程博士學位。在加入UIC之前，他在顧問公司擔任土木/環境工程師三年。他的研究專長包括環境修復、廢物處理、廢物和回收材料的有益利用以及可持續和韌性工程。雷迪博士著有四本書籍，發表298篇期刊論文，編輯30本書籍和會議論文集，撰寫25章書籍和200篇會議論文。他的h指數為73，引用次數超過18,000次。由於其卓越的貢獻，雷迪博士獲得了多項獎項，如富布賴特美國學者獎、ASCE韋斯利·W·霍納獎、ASTM霍根托格勒獎、UIC傑出研究員獎、伊利諾伊大學學者獎和伊利諾伊大學教學卓越獎。他是美國土木工程師學會的院士。

阿賈伊·班薩爾博士是德·B·R·安貝德卡國立技術學院土木工程系的教授。他在旁遮普大學昌迪加爾獲得化學工程博士學位，在印度理工學院新德里獲得碩士學位，並在賴布爾的政府工程學院（現為NIT賴布爾）獲得工程學士學位。他因在Pt. Ravishankar大學的B.E.班級中名列第一而獲得大學金獎。他曾擔任化學工程系主任兩屆，並在NIT賈蘭達爾擔任研究與顧問副院長。班薩爾博士在化學和環境工程領域擁有超過28年的教學、顧問和研究經驗。他的研究專長包括納米光催化、先進氧化過程、廢水處理、固體廢物管理、多相反應器和流變學複雜流體等領域。他已指導8篇博士論文，出版3本書籍、3章書籍、45篇期刊論文和65篇會議論文。班薩爾博士是多個期刊的編輯委員會成員和審稿人。他是多個專業學會的活躍成員，並且是印度工程師學會的院士和印度化學工程師學會（IIChE）加爾各答分會的院士。班薩爾博士曾兩次擔任IIChE的副會長，並擔任過IIChE多阿巴地區中心的主席和名譽秘書。