Editor Biographies

Dr. Rao Y. Surampalli, PhD, is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Global Institute for Energy, Environment, and Sustainability (GIEES). He was with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) for 30 years and retired as an Engineer Director. He received M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Environmental Engineering from Oklahoma State University and Iowa State University, respectively. He is a Registered Professional Engineer in Civil and Environmental Engineering, and also a Board Certified Environmental Engineer (BCEE) and Water Resources Engineer (BC.WRE) of the American Academy of Environmental Engineers (AAEE) and the American Academy of Water Resources Engineers (AAWRE). He serves as an Adjunct Professor at seven universities and a Distinguished/Honorary Visiting Professor at six well-known universities abroad. Currently, he serves, or has served, on over 85 national and international committees, review panels, or advisory boards, including the ASCE National Committee on Energy, Environment, and Water Policy. He also served as President of Civil Engineering Certification (CEC), Inc., an ASCE entity responsible for Board Certification in various civil engineering specialties. He is a Distinguished Engineering Alumnus of both the Oklahoma State and Iowa State Universities, and an elected Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts (EASA), an elected Member of the U.S. National Academy of Construction (NAC), an elected Fellow of the Water Environment Federation and Distinguished Fellow of International Water Association, an elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (F.AAAS), and a Distinguished Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers. He serves as Editor-in-Chief of the ASCE Journal of Hazardous, Toxic and Radioactive Waste; past Vice-Chair of the Editorial Board of the Water Environment Research Journal; and Editor-in-Chief of Nanotechnology for Environmental Engineering Journal (Springer Nature). He also serves on the editorial boards of eight other refereed environmental journals. He has authored over 425 refereed journal articles, holds 25 approved patents, and has published 28 refereed books and over 200 refereed book chapters. He has delivered 250 national and international conference presentations and proceedings and presented over 160 plenary, keynote, or invited presentations worldwide. He has received over 30 national awards and honors.

Dr. Tian C. Zhang, Ph.D, is a Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL), USA. He received his B.S. degree in Civil Engineering from Wuhan University of Technology, China, in 1982; his M.S. degree in Environmental Engineering from Tsinghua University, China,in 1985; and his Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from the University of Cincinnati in 1994. He joined the UNL faculty in August 1994. Professor Zhang teaches courses related to water/wastewater treatment, remediation of hazardous wastes, and non-point pollution control. His research focuses on the fundamentals and applications of nanotechnology and conventional technology for water, wastewater, and storm water treatment and management; remediation of contaminated environments; and detection/control of emerging contaminants in the environment. Professor Zhang has published more than 250 peer-reviewed journal articles, 90 book chapters, and 17 books since 1994. He is a member of the Water Environmental Federation (WEF) and the Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors (AEESP). He is also a Diplomate of Water Resources Engineer (BC.WRE) of the American Academy of Water Resources Engineers, a Board Certified Environmental Engineer (BCEE) of the American Academy of Environmental Engineers, a Distinguished Member of American Society of Civil Engineers (Dist.M.ASCE), a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (F.AAAS), and a Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts (EASA). Professor Zhang serves as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Environmental Engineering (since 2007) and the Journal of Hazardous, Toxic, and Radioactive Waste (since 2006), and as Managing Editor of Water Environment Research (since 2008). He has been a registered Professional Engineer in Nebraska, USA, since 2000.

Bashir M. Al-Hashimi, is the Vice President (Research and Innovation) and ARM Professor of Computer Engineering at King's College London in the United Kingdom. He is internationally recognized for his sustained and pioneering research contributions to advanced semiconductor chip test, energy-efficient embedded systems, and the emerging research field of energy harvesting computing. His research has led to substantive innovations in enabling hardware and software technologies, with applications in mobile and digital electronic devices. A highly cited researcher, he has published more than 350 technical papers, received eight best paper awards at international conferences, and has authored, co-authored, and edited five books and eight book chapters, most recently Many-core Computing: Hardware and Software (IET Press, 2019). He has overseen the successful supervision of 45 PhD students and has secured over £25 million in external research funding from UK research funders and industry. The impact of his computer engineering research and technology transfer has been significant in both academia and industry across the world, and it has led to numerous distinctions. In 2008, he co-founded and co-directed the ARM-Southampton Research Centre, which is an industry-university collaborative center involving the University of Southampton and ARM, recognized as an exemplar in the UK for industry-academia collaboration. Bashir has led successfully a number of large EPSRC-funded multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary research consortia, including the Holistic Battery-Free Electronics Project and the recently completed £5.6 million EPSRC PRiME Programme Grant, which included four universities and five industrial partners. In 2020, he was awarded the UK Institution of Engineering and Technology's Faraday Medal -- the Institution's highest honor and one of the world's most prestigious international awards for engineers and scientists -- for contributions to manufacturing test of electronics systems. In 2018, he received one of the highest national UK honors when he was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II for sustained services to industry and engineering. He was appointed to the Research Excellence Framework (REF) for research impact evaluation of British Higher Education in both 2014 and 2021 and has contributed to numerous government research and education consultations through his active participation in the UK National Engineering Academy -- the Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) since election to the Fellowship in 2013, where he has also been an elected member of the Trustee Board since 2021. In 2014, he received the Royal Society Wolfson Fellowship for scientific contributions to energy-efficient and reliable computing systems, and in 2012, he received the Design and Test in European Conference Fellowship?in recognition of contributions to electronic design and technical leadership. He was elected Fellow of the IEEE in 2009 for contributions to low-power integrated circuits and systems and was recently elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society and the membership of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts in the same year, 2023. He holds an undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering and a PhD from the University of York (1989).

Dr. Chih-Ming Kao, PhD, is a Distinguished Chair Professor in the Institute of Environmental Engineering at National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan. Prof. Kao is also the Coordinator of Environmental Engineering Program at Ministry of Science and Technology, past President of the Chinese Institute of Environmental Engineering, and former President of the Taiwan Association of Soil and Groundwater Environmental Protection. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Civil and Environmental Engineering from North Carolina State University in 1989 and 1993, respectively. He is a Fellow Member of the International Water Association (IWA), a Distinguished Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), a Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts (EASA), a Fellow Member of American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), a Fellow Member of the Environment and Water Resource Institute (EWRI), a Registered Professional Engineer in the branch of Civil Engineering, a Certified Ground Water Professional, and a Professional Hydrologist in the United States. He is also a Diplomate of the American Academy of Environmental Engineers and a Diplomate of the American Academy of Water Resources Engineers. Prof. Kao received the "Distinguished Researcher Award" from Taiwan's Ministry of Science and Technology in 2011 and 2015. He has also received the "Distinguished Engineer Professor Award" from the Chinese Institute of Engineers in 2012 and the "Distinguished Honor Award" from the C.T. Ho Foundation in 2013. He has also received several awards from ASCE including the State of the Art of Civil Engineering Award in 2013, Hering Medal, Samuel Arnold Greely Award in 2012, and distinguished theory-oriented paper award in 2008 and 2015. He has authored over 350 refereed publications.

Prof. Makarand M. Ghangrekar,...