Biographical note

Prof. Krishna R. Reddy is University Scholar, Distinguished Researcher, and Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, the Director of Sustainable Engineering Research Laboratory (SERL), and also the Director of the Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering Laboratory (GAGEL) in the Department of Civil, Materials, and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). Dr. Reddy received Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, USA. He received gold medals for being first in his class of B.S. (Civil Engineering) at Osmania University, India, and M.S. (Civil Engineering) at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee. Prof. Reddy has over 28 years of research, teaching, and consulting experience within the broad fields of civil, geotechnical, materials, environmental, and sustainable/resilient engineering, addressing the nexus among sustainability, resiliency, infrastructure, water, energy, and the environment. His research expertise includes environmental remediation of soils, sediments, groundwater, and stormwater; solid and hazardous waste management, waste containment, and landfill engineering; characterization and engineering applications of waste/recycled materials; life cycle assessment and sustainable & resilient engineering; and geotechnical engineering. His research includes laboratory studies, field experiments, and computer modeling, ultimately leading to fundamental advances and practical solutions to the real-world problems.

Dr. Srinivas Tangellapalli is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Dr B.R Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar, Punjab, India. He previously worked as a Professor at the CO2 Research and Green Technologies Centre of the School of Mechanical Engineering at Vellore Institute of Technology, India. He received his Ph.D. from JNT University College of Engineering, Telangana in 2008 and was a Postdoctoral fellow at University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT), Canada in 2010 and 2013. He has completed various research projects funded by CSIR, SERB, SERB (IMPRINT) and DST. He has one copyright to his credit and registered 5 patents. He has authored 4 full books, 12 book chapters, 125 journal publications, and 85 conference proceedings. His current areas of research are solar thermal energy and poly-generation. He has given 60 invited lectures and has supervised 5 Ph.D. students, 35 M.Tech. thesis and 40 undergraduate projects.

Dr. Susheel Kalia is an Associate Professor & Head in the Department of Chemistry at Army Cadet College Wing of Indian Military Academy, Dehradun, India. He was a postdoctoral researcher in 2013 and a Visiting Professor at the University of Bologna, Italy, in 2020. Dr. Kalia has around 88 research articles in international journals along with 20 books, 11 book chapters and more than 7900 citations with 39 h-index in his academic career. He has guided several M.Phil. and Ph.D. students and delivered many invited talks at national and international conferences. His research interests include polymeric bio- and nanocomposites, surface modification, conducting polymers, nanofibers, nanoparticles, nanoferrites, hybrid materials and hydrogels. In addition, he is a member of a number of professional organizations, including the Asian Polymer Association, Indian Cryogenics Council, the Society for Polymer Science, Indian Society of Analytical Scientists, and the International Association of Advanced Materials.