Sustainable Environment and Infrastructure

Theme 1: Environmental Geotechnology.- Theme 2: Recycling and Beneficial Use of Waste and Recycled Materials Engineering.- Theme 3: Sustainable Engineering.

Dr. Krishna Reddy is a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Director of Sustainable Engineering Research Laboratory, and also the Director of the Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He received his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago. He received gold medals for being first in his class of B.E. (Civil Engineering) at Osmania University and M.E. (Civil Engineering) at the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee. Dr. Reddy has over 25 years of teaching, consulting and research experience within the fields of civil engineering, geotechnical engineering, environmental engineering, and sustainable engineering. 
Dr. Arvind K. Agnihotri is a Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering NIT Jalandhar. He completed his Ph.D. from IIT Roorkee, M.Tech. from NIT Kurukshetra and B.E. from Panjab University Chandigarh. He has over 29 years' experience 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 9 Ph.D. theses and 40 M.Tech. dissertations. He has 50 publications in international refereed journals, 10 publications in national refereed journals and 34 publications in various national and international conferences/symposia. 
Dr. Yeliz Yukselen-Aksoy is a Professor in the Geotechnical Engineering Division of Department of Civil Engineering of Dokuz Eylul University. She received a B.S. from Dokuz Eylül University, and an M.S. from the Dokuz Eylül University. She received her Ph.D. in Geotechnical Engineering from the University of Dokuz Eylül. She was also at the University of Illinois at Chicago in the Department of Civil and Materials Engineering for one year as avisiting professor. Her research