Civil-Engineering-2021

Professor Shah has been actively involved with research in concrete technology. His current research deals with using Nano technology to enhance the performance at macro scale. He is a member of US Academy of Engineering, U.S> Academy of Inventors, Chinese Academy of Engineering, Indian Academy of Engineering, Russian Academy of Engineering and Athens Academy. He is also honorary professor at Tongji University. He has published more 500 journal articles. He is an honorary member of ACI, RILEM and ASCE, He was the founding director of USNSF funded center of Advanced Cement Based Materials. This interdisciplinary of Illinois, Michigan and Purdue and NIST. Currently he is the director of the center of Advanced Construction Materials at University of Texas at Arlington.

Prof. Srinivas Peeta is the Frederick R. Dickerson Chair and Professor in the Schools of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. He is also Principal Research Faculty at the Georgia Tech Research Institute. Prior to that, up to 2018, he was the Jack and Kay Hockema Professor in Civil Engineering at Purdue University and the Director of the NEXTRANS Center, formerly the U.S. Department of Transportation's (USDOT's) Federal Region 5 University Transportation Center. He was also the Associate Director of USDOT's Center for Connected and Automated Transportation at Purdue University. He served as Chair (2007-2013) of the Committee on Transportation Network Modeling of the Transportation Research Board of the U.S. National Academies. In 2016, he served as transportation expert on behalf of the U.S. Department of State in support of India's Smart Cities Mission. He is also a member of International Federation of Automatic Control Technical Committee on Transportation Systems. He has authored over 350 peer-reviewed publications and received over $48 million in funding. serves on the editorial advisory boards of several journals. His research interests are multidisciplinary and broadly span transportation and infrastructure systems.

Prof. S. Pietruszczak research interests are focused mainly on formulation of constitutive relations for various engineering materials. Those include geomaterials (soils and rocks) as well as structural materials (concrete, masonry, reinforced composites). He has written over 180 technical papers on these and related topics. He is also the author of a monograph on 'Fundamentals of Plasticity in Geomechanics' and co-author of Proceedings of 12 different International Symposia that he organized (in collaboration with Prof. G.N. Pande, University of Swansea, U.K.) in various European/North American cities. He was the North American Editor of Intern. Journal 'Computers and Geotechnics', Elsevier Science Ltd. (1989-2011) and is presently on Editorial Board of several other International Journals. He is also a member of various Advisory Boards (e.g., European Research Council - International Panel of Experts) and is the Vice-President of the International Centre for Computational Engineering (IC2E), which is an educational charity registered in Rhodes, Greece.

Professor Travis Waller is Head, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering in the Faculty of Engineering at UNSW where he previously served as Deputy Dean (Research) and Founding Executive Director for the Research Centre for Integrated Transport Innovation (rCITI). He was previously a tenured/tenure-track faculty at the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He is a global research leader in the domain of transportation network modelling particularly strategic planning models, dynamic traffic assignment and adaptive network equilibrium. In the past 20 years, he has secured $36m+ in total research funding. He has published more than 300 peer reviewed papers, supervised 34 completed PhD students and conducted over 60 funded research projects for 40 global sponsors. In 2003, Prof. Waller was named one of the top 100 innovators in science and engineering in the world under 35 years of age by MIT's Technology Review magazine for his work on dynamic traffic analysis. In 2004, he received the U.S. National Science Foundation CAREER award for his proposed research and teaching plan on adaptive network equilibrium. In 2006, he was the recipient of the Annual New Faculty Award sponsored by the Council of University Transportation Centers and the American Road and Transportation Builders Association (noting both research and teaching accomplishments). In 2007, he was named a Fellow of the Clyde E. Lee Endowed Professorship in Transportation Engineering. In 2008, he was named to the Phil M. Ferguson Teaching Fellowship in Civil Engineering. In addition, he received the U.S. Transportation Research Board's Fred Burggraf Award in 2009, the Hojjat Adeli Award for Innovations in Computing in 2012 and the Pyke Johnson Award in 2019.

Professor XL (Joshua) Zhao is the Associate Dean (International) for UNSW Engineering. His current research focuses on hybrid construction utilising seawater, sea sand concrete and fibre reinforced polymers; rehabilitation of aging infrastructure using advanced composite materials; and ultra-high strength steel structures. Prior to joining UNSW Sydney, Prof. Zhao held the Chair of Civil Engineering at Monash University since 2001. He was the Head of Department of Civil Engineering at Monash University from 2008 to 2011. Prof. Zhao received several prestigious fellowships including the Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Invitation Fellow, the Royal Academy of Engineering (UK) Distinguished Visiting Fellowship Award, the Swiss National Science Foundation Visiting Professorship Award. Prof. Zhao is a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers and a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers Australia. He served on the Australian Research Council ERA (Excellence in Research for Australia) Research Evaluation Committee for Engineering and Environmental Sciences Cluster in 2015 and 2018. He chaired the IIW (International Institute of Welding) Committee XV-E on Tubular Structures from 2002 to 2014. Prof. Zhao was the recipient of the IIW Thomas Medal in 2013. He also chaired the IIFC (International Institute of FRP in Construction) Working Group on FRP Strengthened Metallic Structures from 2005 to 2013. He is a member of the Australian Research Council College of Experts. Prof. Zhao has published 9 books and 390 refereed journal papers with an h-index of 73. He received 26 grants from the Australian Research Council and supervised over 50 PhD students to completion.

Professor Yu Bai holds a full Professor position in Structural Engineering in the Department of Civil Engineering, Monash University, Australia. His research interests include modular construction, composite structures, structural connections, fiber reinforced composites for construction, and design for robotic construction. Professor Yu Bai has published more than 180 journal papers with an h-index of 39 and an overall citation over 5000. Professor Yu Bai also serves as member in the Editorial Board for a few international journals such as Advances in Concrete Construction and Journal of Composites for Construction. In addition to highly cited publications, his research outcomes have also been welcomed for a few engineering applications.

Dr. Caijun Shi is vice president of Asian Concrete Federation, a national distinguished expert of China, Chair Professor of College of civil Engineering, Hunan University. He received his B. Eng and M. Eng from Southeast University, Nanjing, China and his Ph.D from the University of Calgary, Canada. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Sustainable Cement-based Materials, Co-Editor of Journal of Ceramics in Modern Technologies, former associate editor of Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering and current associate editor of Journal of Chinese Ceramic Society, and an editorial board member of Cement and Concrete Research, Cement and Concrete Composites, Construction and Building Materials, Materiales de Construccion, Heliyon, Journal of Structural Integrity and Maintenance, Journal of Asian Concrete Federation, Materials Review and Journal of Building Materials. Dr. Shi is currently a member of many technical committees within ACI and RILEM. His research interests include characterization and utilization of industrial by-products and waste materials, design and testing of cement and concrete materials, development and evaluation of cement additives and concrete admixtures, and solid and hazardous waste management. He has developed several novel technologies and products in these areas, and has been granted 4 US patents and 22 Chinese patents. I have authored/co-authored more than 420 technical papers, seven English books, three Chinese books and edited/co-edited seven international conference proceedings. My Google citation is over 20,400 and H-index of 71 (by February 10, 2021). I was elected as a fellow of International Energy Foundation in 2001, American Concrete Institute in 2007, and RILEM in 2016 in recognition of my contributions to these organization and relevant field.

Nader Ghafoori is a professor of civil engineering (structures) at the University of Nevada Las Vegas. He holds a BSCE from Texas Tech University, and MSCE and PhD in Structural Engineering from University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida. He has been a faculty member in various institutions in Florida, Washington, Illinois, Tennessee, and Nevada. He also served as a chairperson of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Tennessee Technological University and University of Nevada Las Vegas. His research interests include durability, strength, and behavior of concrete systems; design and performance of advanced construction materials; rheology and workability of cement-based materials; optimization of chemical admixtures and supplementary cementitious materials in concrete; and use of industrial by-products and recycled aggregates in concrete. He has secured research funding from NSF, DOE,Departments of Transportation, andvarious stateagencies and concrete industry.He has published over190manuscripts in peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings, prepared over 100 research reports, and edited/co-edited12 conference proceedings.He is a member of various technical committees of America Concrete Institute International (ACI), American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), and the Masonry Society (TMS).He has received numerous awards for his contributions to teaching, research, and services.

Prof. Mohamed A. Abdel-Aty is Professor at University of Central Florida, Deputy Director of Transportation Safety and Operation, Center for Advanced Transportation Systems Simulation (CATSS) and Associate Editor of Accident Analysis and Prevention. His Research interests in Traffic Safety Analysis, Intelligent Transportation Systems, Traffic Simulation, Transportation Demand Analysis, Transportation Planning Concepts and Methods, Computer, Statistical and Econometrics Applications in Transportation Engineering. I received the Dissertation Award for outstanding Ph.D. dissertation from the University of California Transportation Center (UCTC) in 1995. It was an honor to receive this award, as it was very competitive, and provided me with support to pursue my research. As a master's student at Alexandria University in Egypt, he focused on roadway simulation, and as a Ph.D. student at UC Davis he studied travel demand modeling. He then began to pursue his interest in traffic safety at the University of Central Florida (UCF). He proposed a new course in traffic safety analysis, which was the very first of its kind in Florida, and one among only a few in the country. He also began to work with the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) on traffic safety projects. His work has since expanded to combine GIS and data mining with safety. Dr. Abdel-Aty was recently appointed chair of the Civil, Environmental, and Construction Engineering Department at the University of Central Florida.

Max Wyss grew up in Zuerich, Switzerland, where he earned a Diploma in geophysics at the Federal Institute of Technology. He obtained his MS and PhD in seismology at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena in 1970. After working as research scientist at the Scripps Institute of Oceanography in La Jolla, California and at the Lamont-Doherty Observatory, Palisades, New York, he joined the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado, Boulder.There he worked from 1973 through 1991, advancing from Assistant to Full Professor.In 1991, he joined the Geophysical Institute of the University of Alaska, Fairbanks occupying the endowed chair of the Wadati Professor of Seismology. From 1993 to 1995, he was State Seismologist of Alaska. From 2001 to 2014 Wyss served as the Director of the World Agency of Planetary Monitoring and Earthquake Risk Reduction in Geneva. In 2015 he joined the International Center for Earth Simulation in Geneva as scientific expert. He is Professor Emeritus of the University of Alaska. Max Wyss' 200+ scientific publications deal with: Seismic hazard and risk, earthquake losses, population exposed, composition of the built environment, earthquake source parameters, crustal deformation, stress/strain tensors, pore pressure related to earthquakes, seismicity patterns, earthquake prediction, seism tectonics, historic seismicity, seismicity related to volcanoes. He invented the earthquake closet for protection and discovered that 90% of earthquake fatalities are from rural areas, a fact important for mitigation.

Amir H. Gandomi is a Professor of Data Science and an ARC DECRA Fellow at the Faculty of Engineering & Information Technology, University of Technology Sydney. Prior to joining UTS, Prof. Gandomi was an Assistant Professor at Stevens Institute of Technology, USA and a distinguished research fellow in BEACON center, Michigan State University, USA. Prof. Gandomi has published over two hundred journal papers and seven books which collectively have been cited 19,000+ times (H-index = 64). He has been named as one of the most influential scientific mind and Highly Cited Researcher (top 1% publications and 0.1% researchers) for four consecutive years, 2017 to 2020. He also ranked 18th in GP bibliography among more than 12,000 researchers. He has served as associate editor, editor and guest editor in several prestigious journals such as AE of SWEVO, IEEE TBD, and IEEE IoTJ. Prof Gandomi is active in delivering keynotes and invited talks. His research interests are global optimisation and (big) data analytics using machine learning and evolutionary computations in particular.

Professor Hassan Al Nageim is a Professor of Structural Engineering at Liverpool John Moores University since 2003. Professor Al Nageim is a regular speaker and key note speakers at different national and international conferences and a consultant to many companies worldwide in the field of structural design and materials innovations and developments. He has published more than 160 scientific conference and journal papers and two books entitled: Structural Mechanics published by Pearson Education; Steel Structures: Practical Studies published by Taylor and Francis. Professor Hassan main research interests area is in structural design and evaluations including innovations in materials technology. Professor Al Nageim is also: A Chartered Engineer and a member of the British Engineering Council, the Founder and Chief Editor of the International Journal of Pavement Engineering & Asphalt Technology, established in 2001, ISSN 1464-8164, the Founder and Chairman of the international annual conference on Sustainable Materials, and Infrastructures, A Fellow of the British Institution of Non-Destructive Testing, UK and a Fellow of the Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation UK.He has worked for 7 years as Adjunct Dean to the Gahan Polytechnic in Ghana and external examiners and advisor for two academic degree courses in Wolverhampton University and the University of Ulster of the UK.Professors Al Nageim also playing a major roles as a member of the strategic planning educational committees for two Engineering and Materials Institutions in the UK.

Dr. Jun Zhang received his Ph.D. in Structural Engineering from Technical University of Denmark. Dr. Zhang is presently a Professor in Civil Engineering at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. Dr. Zhang is a specialist in cementitious composites and mechanics of concrete. He has extensive experience in cement-based composite materials, in mechanical modeling of concrete structures, and in design of fiber reinforced composites. Dr. Zhang served as Chair of the Committee of High Performance Concrete of The Chinese Ceramic Society since 2010. He has also served as a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee or International Program Committee for several international conferences. His work has been published in more than 150 papers. His current research fields include fracture mechanics of cementitious composites, design and application of fiber reinforced cementitious composites and high performance concrete.

Gintaris Kaklauskas is Professor of Department of Reinforced Concrete Structures and Geotechnical Engineering and Director of Research Institute of Building and Bridge Structures at Vilnius Gediminas Technical University (Vilnius Tech). PhD and DrSc (Habil. Dr.) degrees received from Vilnius Tech. Real member of the Lithuanian Academy of Science. The recipient of the best paper Moisseiff Award 2013 from the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), Structural Division Excellence Award 2020 from the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers, HKIE, Lithuanian Science Prize 2013 and Marie Curie (Senior Research category) grant. Visiting professor (under Fulbright fellowship) at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Serving as an expert of European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grants. Main research interests include serviceability analysis and bond modeling of concrete structures.

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Rajiv Gupta (Senior Professor of Civil Engineering, BITS, Pilani) completed his B.E., M.E and Ph.D. from BITS, Pilani. In his last 35 years of teaching and research, he has published more than 200 research papers, guided more than 10 Ph.D. scholars, taught more than 30 courses, reviewed more than 150 books, project, and papers of reputed journals. He is involved in number of research and development projects worth more than Rs. 1000 lacs of World Bank, UGC, DST, University of Virginia, and other sponsored organizations. He has implemented a multi sustainable Rainwater Scheme in 10 villages. He worked as Dean of Engineering Services and Hardware and was instrumental in developing Goa, and Hyderabad campuses, apart from other different construction at Pilani campus.

Dr. M Mobin Siddiqi is an Assistant Professor at the National University of Science and Technology

Beshoy is a fourth year PhD student at Missouri S&T. He has overall experience of nearly 7 years in civil and geotechnical engineering covering a wide range of projects in several countries. He got both of his bachelor and master’s degrees in civil engineering from Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt. He held many positions as a geotechnical and senior geotechnical engineer in national and international companies. He was also a lecturer assistant at the Housing and Building National Research Center in Egypt. He is a member of the Egyptian geotechnical society and a technical secretary for the Deep Excavation Sub-Committee for the development of the Egyptian Code for Soil Mechanics and Foundation Execution. He is currently working on constitutive modeling of unsaturated soils. Beshoy published 8 papers related to constitutive modeling of saturated and unsaturated soils.

Civil Engineering (1973), M.Sc. Architecture (1992), War Superior Scholl (1992), D.Sc. Eng. (1996). He served as project manager in the 1980s and as director and coordinator of civil and industrial projects in services in Brazil and abroad, with an accumulated value of more than US $ 2 billion, having experience in more than 300 projects carried out. Full prof. of Poli / UFRJ and prof. the Environmental and the Urban Engineering Program, and member of the editorial board of the magazines Mundo PM-Project Management, Gestao & Gestao and Management Bulletin. He has been coordinator of the Research Center for Planning and Management since 2003, working on the following topics: Project Management, Strategic Management in Production and Civil Construction Planning. Founding member and the Strategic Council of IPMA Brasil. Author of over a hundred articles and 6 civil engineering books.

Assessor iuris Ulrike Quapp was awarded a First and a Second State Examination in Law after legal clerkship and post gradual studies. She worked as attorney at law. Since 2006, Mrs. Quapp has been Faculty Manager of the Faculty of Civil Engineering at HTWK Leipzig. Her main research fields are civil and structural engineering education as well as construction law. Mrs. Quapp published 80 national and international publications, serves in the committees of international conferences and chairs sessions, serves as reviewer of numerous journals and is Editorial Board Member of the ASCE journal "Journal of Legal Affairs and Dispute Resolution in Engineering and Construction".

Klaus Holschemacherwas graduated from the Technical University of Leipzig, Germany, with the doctoral degree in Civil Engineering. Subsequently, he has worked as consulting engineer in construction practice. Since 1996 Holschemacher is Professor for Structural Concrete at HTWK Leipzig. At the same university he has founded the Structural Concrete Institute and is the Institute head until now. His research interests are focused on innovative cementitious materials including alkali-activated cement, fiber reinforced concrete and textile reinforced concrete as well as composite members. Holschemacher is author and co-author of more than 400 research papers and member of numerous civil engineering organizations and committees. He was awarded with the honorary doctorate degree from Southwest State University Kursk, Russia.

Dr. Cancan Yang Dr. Cancan Yang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at McMaster University. She received her PhD at University at Buffalo, the State University of New York. Dr. Yang's research focuses on highway bridge engineering, specifically regarding reinforced and prestressed concrete bridges. She uses experimental and computational methods to investigate structural systems and materials that can reduce earthquake-induced damage to precast concrete bridges. She uses risk-based methods to investigated climate change induced serviceability and safety risks for concrete bridge infrastructure.

Mohammad Tolou Kian is a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Waterloo, where he started working on the fatigue life of bridge structures in January 2021. Before that, Mohammad studied and worked at the University of Alberta. Mohammad’s published work mainly focuses on the use of high-performance materials, including fiber-reinforced cementitious composites and self-centering reinforcement, in the design and construction of reinforced concrete (RC) structures. During his Ph.D. program, Mohammad worked on a comprehensive project that included the analysis, design, construction, and testing of damage-resisting RC shear walls detailed with fiber-reinforced composites and self-centering reinforcement, including shape memory alloy (SMA) bars, glass fiber-reinforced polymer (GFRP) bars, and high-strength steel strands. Mohammad showed that RC shear walls detailed with high-performance materials have improved performance in terms of the permanent drift ratio and concrete damage compared to shear walls built under today’scodes of practice. He also developed some design criteria for damage-resisting RC shear walls, which is a step toward the widespread use of damage-resisting RC shear walls in building structures.

Dr. Serge H. Kengni Pokam is Physics lecturer to the Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, the University of Bamenda, Cameroon. He completed his phd in University of Yaounde I(2014-2020). He is the Author of number of journals (Open Journal of Geology, Open Journal of Earthquake Research, Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, International journal of Geosciences).

Prof. Qing Wang received his doctoral degree from the Tongji University for a work on interface strength of fiber reinforced composites in 1996. He became in 1998 a full Professor at the Shandong University of Technology, China. In 2000, he joined National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan. In 2014 he moved to Shandong University of Science and Technology, China, as Taishan Distiguished Professor. In 2017 he served as the Dean of the department of Materials Sci Eng. Now he works there as the Director of Institute of Nanoengineering. Prof. Qing Wang' main area of research is fabrication of advanced functional materials and its application in civil engineering. This involves the development of new methods for structural monitoring and maintenance.

Shintaro NISHINA is Department of Architecture, Graduate School of Engineering, Tokyo University of Science (TUS), Japan and has graduated from TUS, Japan.

Rikako Hotta belongs to Department of Architecture, Graduate School of Engineering, Tokyo University of Science (TUS), Japan and has graduated from TUS

Dr. Inga Grīnfelde is an Assistant Professor, researcher and Study program “Environment and Water Management” director at Department of Environment and Water Management, Faculty of Environment and Civil Engineering, Latvia University of Life Sciences and Technologies since year 2010. The main areas of research related to the sustainable development of the urban environment, with a particular focus on the use of the phytoremediation method potential to reduce pollution and improve urban microclimate. Recent studies relate to the revitalization of brownfield areas, the development of circular economic models for waste water management and the modelling of GHG emissions.

Asst. Prof. Dr. Emin Taner ELMAS, has graduated from faculty of Mechanical Engineering as B.Sc. in 1995 and then completed his M.Sc. in “Energy” at Mechanical Engineering Department of Dokuz Eylül University in İzmir, Turkey and after that he received his Ph.D. in “Thermodynamics” at Mechanical Engineering Department of Ege University, in İzmir, Turkey. Asst .Prof. Dr. Elmas is an Assistant Professor of Automotive Technology at the Department of Motor Vehicles and Transportation Technologies at Vocational School of Higher Education for Technical Sciences at IGDIR UNIVERSITY , Turkey. He is also an Assistant Professor of Bioengineering & BioSciences at the same university. He has nearly 26 years of total experience in academia and in industry. His Research Interests And Experiences: Energy Transfer, Thermodynamics, Energy, Fluid Mechanics, Advanced Fluid Mechanics, Heat Transfer, Advanced Engineering Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, General Mathematics, Heat Pipes, Evaporation, Turbomachinery, Aerospace, Aeronautics, Space Science, Pressure Vessels and Steam Boilers, Power Plants, Cogeneration, Heat Recovery, Energy Efficiency, Energy Storage Systems, Heat Exchangers, Metal Machining, Electric Vehicle, UAV-Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, Automotive, Bioengineering, NeuroEngineering and Medical Technique.

Prof. Daniel N Wilke research interests are focused mainly on generative modelling forseveral engineering applications that include condition-based monitoring of physical assets, physical asset and process design, analysis and optimization. Models of interest vary from physics-based (finite element, discrete element and smooth particle hydrodynamics) to data-driven (auto-correlative and auto-regressive models). He has written over 80 technical papers and co-authored the book "Practical Mathematical Optimization" in Springer Optimization and Its Applications series. He has delivered several international plenaries (IMT Lille Douai-France), keynotes (IMT Lille Douai-France, Twente University-Netherlands) and invited lectures (Tsinghua University-China, Silicon Valley-USA, Leibniz University-Germany), as well as given international graduate courses on optimization. He currently serves as topic editor for Minerals. He has served on national advisory boards in South Africa and is an elected member of the South African National Committee for the International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics. He currently serves on the Exco of the South African Association for Theoretical and Applied Mechanics(SAAM). He is an Inaugural Young Research Leader and received an Exceptional Young Researcher Award and Vice-Chancellors Book Award.

Dr. Raja Rizwan Hussain received his Ph.D and M.Sc. in Civil Engineering from the University of Tokyo, Japan in 2008 and 2006, for which he was ranked outstanding and was awarded medal and prize for best research thesis from The University of Tokyo, Japan. Now he is working as Associate Professor at CoE-CRT, Civil Engineering Department, College of Engineering, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He has received several, awards, distinctions and prizes throughout his research and academic life. His research interest is in the steel reinforced concrete (RC) structures. He has more than 150 publications in the related area of research.

Dr. M Shihab Patel holds a doctorate in civil engineering and specializes in offshore engineering. He is a recipient of Young Researcher Award 2021 in addition to a recognized reviewer. Dr. Shihab offers structural consultancy services to Engineering firms as well as auditing operations in industry and coastal bridges. He holds two intellectual property rights to his name. Dr. Patel is currently working on an international collaboration for risk-based analysis of hyperloop projects.

Aeslina Abdul Kadir is an associate professor at the Faculty of Civil Engineering and Built Environment (FKAAB), Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia (UTHM). She obtained her B.Sc. (hons) in Environmental Science from UniversitiKebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) in 2002 followed by M.Eng. in Civil Engineering (Environmental Management) at University Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) in 2004 and PhD in Civil Engineering at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia (2010). Her specialization is in the field of sustainable waste recycling/management, and wastewater treatment. She had published more than 100 publications including proceedings, journals, books and modules as the main author and co author with H-index 14. To date, she had led almost RM 2 million worth of grants and more than RM 300 thousand worth of consultation at national and international level. Notably, she and her research team also had won up to 50 medals for innovative product competitions which resulted with 3 patents and 11 copyrights. She is also active as keynote speaker and invited speaker in 34 different international conferences, forum and seminar. Assoc. Prof. Ts. Dr. Aeslina is also Professional Technologist (Ts) and a panel for Technology and Technical Accreditation Council (TTAC) of Malaysia Board of Technologist (MBOT), a member of International Solid Waste Association (ISWA), International Water Association (IWA), International Association of Engineers (IAENG), Malaysian Society of Waste Management and Environment (MSWME), Malaysian Society for Engineering and Technology (mySET), Concrete Society of Malaysia (CSM) and Malaysian Research and Innovation Society (MyRIS). She is also an active Principal Researcher at Micropollutant Research Center (MPRC) and a Research Fellow at Research Centre For Soft Soil (RECESS) and Center of Excellence Geopolymer and Green Technology (CEGeoGTech).

Dr. Md. Sanaul Rabbi is an associate professor at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Chittagong University of Engineering & Technology (CUET), Bangladesh. He obtained his PhD from Saga University, Japan in 2018. His specialization includes composite materials, non-destructive evaluation & testing, structural health monitoring, and computational analysis. He has published more than 40 research articles including proceedings, journals, and book chapter. To date, He had led almost BDT 1.2 million worth of research grants at the national level. He is a member of the Institute of Engineers, Bangladesh (IEB) and the Bangladesh Society of Mechanical Engineers (BSME).