Biographical note

Dr. Kasinathan Muthukkumaran is currently Professor in Civil Engineering at National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, India. He obtained Ph.D. in Soil-Structure Interaction and Marine Geotechnical Engineering from Indian Institute Technology Madras. He has published more than 150 papers in international and national journals and conferences. He has completed 5 R & D (including ISRO - Chandrayaan- 2 Mission project) & 70 major consultancy projects in Geotechnical Engineering and published two patent including “Moon Soil” (A Method for Manufacture of Highland Lunar Soil Simulant). He has guided 10 PhD scholars and 6 more are in progress, 5 MS (by research) and more than 40 M.Tech. students in Geotechnical and allied research areas. He is the Founder Chairman of Indian Geotechnical Society (IGS-Trichy) Trichy Chapter. He is a member of Technical Committee (TC-301 on "Preservation of Historic Sites") of International Society for Soil Mechanicsand Geotechnical Engineering. Prof. Muthukkumaran area of research is in geotechnical engineering, which includes pile foundation, soil-structure interaction, marine geotechnics & foundations, field instrumentation, geotechnical physical modeling, ground improvement and forensic geotechnical engineering. He has received DST Young Scientist Award, IGS- Smt. Indra Joshi Biennial Award and Keynote Paper Award – GEOMATE Conference 2015 at Osaka, Japan. He is an Associate Editor of Australian journal of Civil Engineering and serving editorial board member of several journals.   Prof. Muthukkumaran has significant administrative contribution as Estate Officer, Associate Dean (Planning and Development), Member of Buildings and Works Committee and Member of Board of Governors (BoG) of National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli and Member of Buildings and Works Committee, IIM Trichy. He has received NIT Trichy Achiever Awards for research publications, research projects, maximum citation and consultancy projects.  

Dr. Rajesh Sathiyamoorthy is Associate Professor of the Department of Civil Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur, India. He holds Doctor of Philosophy (2010) in Geotechnical Engineering from IIT Bombay and Master of Technology (2001) from College of Engineering Guindy, Anna University. He was at University of Joseph Fourier, LTHE, Grenoble, France as a Postdoctoral Fellow (2010-2011); Tongji University, Shanghai, China, as a Talented Young Scientist (2019-2020); University of Applied Sciences, Darmstradt, Germany, as Young Researcher (2004-2005). His research studies focus on hydro-mechanical behaviour of geomaterials, numerical and physical modelling of geostructures, application of geosynthetics and engineered cover systems and has published more than 95 technical papers in journals and conferences and delivered more than 25 keynote/ invited lectures at various conferences and other events. He is a recipient of Institution of Engineers (India) Young Engineers Award-2013 (Civil Engineering), Talented Young Scientist Award-2018 from Ministry of Science and Technology China and Distinguished Alumni Award-2019 (Academic and Research) from VIT university. Dr. Rajesh is also a recipient of Prof. G. A. Leonards Biannual Award-2011, IGS - Prof. A.V. Shroff Biannual Award-2013, IIT Kanpur Best Instructor Award (seven times) and few best paper awards (IGS-Bangalore Chapter YGE Award-2015 and 2019, IGS-Prof. C.S. Desai Biennial Award-2020, IGC-2020). He is ISSMGE, TC-106 (Unsaturated Soils) committee member representing India. 

Dr. Arif Ali Baig Moghal is Distinguished Researcher and an Associate Professor of the Department of Civil Engineering at the National Institute of Technology (NIT), Warangal. Dr. Arif received his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India. Prior to joining NIT, he had worked at Bugshan Research Chair in Expansive Soils at King Saud University, Riyadh as professor. He has over 16 years of research, teaching and consulting experience within the broad fields of civil, geotechnical, geoenvironmental engineering addressing the nexus between sustainability and the environment. His research was funded by KACST (King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia) and Department of Science and Technology (DST), India. Dr. Moghal is the author of 53 journal papers, 1 edited book, 11 book chapters, 33 ASCE Geotechnical Special Publications and 25 full conference papers. He has given 23 invited presentations in India and Saudi Arabia. He is Fellow of the Indian Geotechnical Society (FIGS), Fellow of the Institute of Engineers, India (FIE), and a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (MASCE). 

Dr. S. P. Jeyapriya is currently working as Professor, Department of Civil Engineering (Geotechnical), Government College of Technology, Coimbatore, Tamilnadu, India. She has over 20 years of experience in teaching and research. She has published around 30 research articles in international and national journals, 50 papers in international and national conferences. She has coordinated around 15 programs that include faculty development programs, workshops, conferences and seminars.  She has delivered invited lectures in several academic institutions. She is a reviewer of research articles submitted to journals and conferences and had done peer reviewing of e-course developed in the domain environmental engineering under NAIP. She has received two best paper awards. She is serving as State Government Nominee to the Board of Governors of few institutes. She is a life member of Indian Geotechnical Society (IGS), New Delhi, India, and Honorary Secretary of IGS-Coimbatore Chapter and has coordinated in establishing more than 20 student chapters at various institutes. Her areas of interests include soil mechanics,foundation engineering, ground improvement techniques and environmental geotechnology. She has been doing consultancy services to various government, quasi government and private organisations.