Biographical note

Yeliz Yukselen-Aksoy has been a full-time faculty member in the Geotechnical Engineering Division of Department of Civil Engineering at Dokuz Eylul University since 2015. Prior to that she was a full-time faculty member at the Celal Bayar University. She received a B.S. from Dokuz Eylül University in 1998 and an M.S. from the Dokuz Eylül University. She received her Ph.D. in Geotechnical Engineering from the Dokuz Eylül University in 2007. She was also at University of Illinois Chicago in Department of Civil and Materials Engineering for one year as a visiting professor. Her research efforts have focused on environmental geotechnics, ground improvement, surface properties of clay minerals, and remediation of contaminated soils. Dr. Yukselen-Aksoy published more than 40 papers, 1 book chapter, and approximately 35 conference proceedings. She was the recipient of the Turkish National and Scientific Research Council Scholarship. Dr. Yukselen-Aksoy has received several awards, many publication performance awards, and Fabed Foundation Outstanding Achievement Award.
Krishna R. Reddy is a university scholar, a distinguished researcher, and the professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, the director of both Sustainable Engineering Research Laboratory (SERL) and the Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering Laboratory (GAGEL) in the Department of Civil, Materials, and Environmental Engineering (CME) at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC). Dr. Reddy received Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago. He received gold medals for being first in both B.S. (Civil Engineering) at Osmania University, India, and M.S. (Civil Engineering) at the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee. Dr. Reddy has more than 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. Dr. Reddy is the author of four major books, 272 journal papers, 28 edited books/conference proceedings, 23 book chapters, and 229 full conference papers. Dr. Reddy has served or currently serves as an associate editor or an editorial board member of over 10 different journals. Dr. Reddy has received several awards for excellence in research and teaching, including ASCE Wesley W. Horner Award, ASTM Hogentogler Award, UIC Distinguished Researcher Award, University of Illinois Scholar Award, and University of Illinois Award for Excellence in Teaching. He is a fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers (FASCE), a diplomate of Geotechnical Engineering (DGE), and a board certified environmental engineer (BCEE). He is also a registered professional civil engineer (PE) and an EnvisionTM sustainability professional (ENV SP).
Arvind Kumar Agnihotri is a professor of Civil Engineering at NIT Jalandhar. He completed his Ph.D. from University of Roorkee (1998), M.Tech. from NIT Kurukshetra (1989), and B.E. from Panjab University, Chandigarh (1987). He possesses a work experience of around 32 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 (Geo-synthetics and Geofibers), Ground Improvement and Soil–Structure interaction. He has supervised 12 Ph.D. theses, and 4 more are in progress. He has guided 52 M.Tech. dissertations. He has published more than 135 papers out of which about 85 in referred international and national journals and 50 in conferences and 5 edited books/conference proceedings. He served as the head of Civil Engineering, the dean academic, and the dean (Planning and Development) at prestigious Dr. B. R. Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar. He is a fellow/member of many professional organizations like ASCE, IGS, ISTE, Institution of Engineers, International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, and Indian Roads Congress. He is a reviewer of many international journals of repute.