Dr. Mohammad Abdul Mannan is currently a Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS), Malaysia. He completed his B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. in Civil Engineering and began his academic career as a Lecturer at the Bangladesh Institute of Technology, Rajshahi (now RUET). He later moved to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, where he worked as a design engineer at AJP, contributing to several significant structural and infrastructural projects, including a 25-storey tower and a RM60 million infrastructure project. Dr. Mannan has over 37 years of experience in teaching, professional practice, and research. Before joining UNIMAS, he served as an academician at Universiti Malaysia Sabah for 13 years.
Dr. Hemant S. Chore is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at Dr. B.R. Ambedkar National Institute of Technology (NIT) Jalandhar, Punjab, India. He holds an M.Tech. in Transportation Engineering from IIT Bombay and a Ph.D. from VNIT Nagpur. He has extensive experience in academics and research. His areas of research interest include soil-structure interaction, pavement analysis, utilization of waste materials in geotechnical engineering. He has guided 10 Ph.D. candidates, and seven candidates are currently pursuing their Ph.D. under his supervision. He has published over 60 research papers in refereed journals and more than 210 papers in the proceedings of national and international conferences.
Dr. R. Sathyanathan is currently a Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur Campus. He obtained his B.E. in Civil Engineering from the Government College of Technology, Coimbatore, followed by an M.E. in Irrigation Water Management from the College of Engineering, Anna University, Guindy. He later earned his Ph.D. in Water Resources Engineering from SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur. Dr. Sathyanathan's research interests encompass a broad spectrum within water resources engineering, including coastal hydrodynamics, watershed management, meteorological data analysis, and the application of GIS and remote sensing techniques in environmental, water resources and urban engineering. He has published more than 50 research papers in peer-reviewed journals and is actively involved in reviewing manuscripts for several international journals in the field of water resources engineering.
Dr. S. Durgadevagi is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur Campus. She has fourteen years of diverse experience in academics and research projects. She completed her B.E in Civil Engineering at Anna University, Chennai, her M.E. in Geoinformatics with a gold medal at the College of Engineering, Guindy, Anna University and her Ph.D. at SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur. She has published more than 30 research papers in peer-reviewed journals. Dr. Durgadevagi has successfully undertaken a major funded project titled "Enabling of Academic Institutes in Technical Textiles", as a Co- Principal Investigator, supported by the National Technical Textiles Mission (NTTM), Ministry of Textiles, with a grant of ?5.09 crore. She has executed more than a hundred consultancy assignments involving site inspection and quality assessment for road projects.
