Dr Manish Pandey graduated in Civil Engineering from Uttarakhand Technical University, India. He completed his masters and doctorate from Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India. Presently, Dr Pandey is Assistant Professor at Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India since 2023. He has more than 6 years teaching and research experience in experimental hydraulics and water resources engineering. He has authored more than 50 peer-reviewed journal papers and 25+ book chapters and conference proceeding papers. He has guided 1 PhD and 10 M.Tech students. Presently he is guiding 4 PhD students. He was also awarded MOST postdoctoral research grant in year 2018. He is a member of the editorial board of Journals: Environmental Development and Sustainability, Journal of Water Management Modeling, Water SA, Journal of Applied Science and Engineering and Journal of Applied Water Engineering and Research. He has also handled guest editorship for Fluid MDPI Journal, SI: Journalof Applied Water Engineering and Research and Frontiers in Environmental Science Journal, SI: The Urban Fluvial and Hydro-Environment System. Dr Pandey is an active reviewer in several reputed peer-reviewed journals. Prof. N V Umamahesh has more than 35 years of experience as a faculty in the Department of Civil Engineering at NIT, Warangal. His area of specialization is Water Resources Engineering, and his research areas include Hydrological Modelling, Stochastic Hydrology, Hydro-Climatic Extremes, Modelling Impacts of Climate Change, Urban Floods, and Water Resources Systems. He has been well recognized for his analytical and mathematical modelling skills. He guided 13 PhD students and about 100 M.Tech students. He is currently guiding 7 PhD scholars. He has published more than 60 papers in reputed International Journals, and 6 book chapters and presented more than 50 papers in National and International Conferences. He has taken up several sponsored research and consultancy projects. He has held several administrative positions including Chief Warden, Head of the Department of Civil Engineering, Dean (Student Welfare), Dean (Planning and Development), Dean (Academic) and Coordinator of TEQIP-II. He received the Jalamitra Award from the Government of Andhra Pradesh in 2003 for the best implementation of the Watershed Development Program in Warangal District. He received the Best Engineering Faculty Award in 2017. He organized two international conferences and several faculty development programs. Prof. Z. Ahmad is currently Professor of Civil Engineering at IIT Roorkee, India. He obtained his B.Tech. (Civil) degree from AMU Aligarh, M.Tech. (Hydraulic Engineering) degree from Univ. of Roorkee and Ph.D. degree from T.I.E.T., Patiala. He has 28 years experience of teaching at undergradute and post graduate levels and taught spectrum of courses. He has published more than 230 papers in referred national and international journals and conference proceedings. His area of research is River engineering, fluvial hydraulics, computational hydraulics and hydraulic structures and carried out innovative works in these areas for sustainable development of water resources. Mr. Ahmad has supervised 60 M. tech. dissertations and 16 Ph.D. Theses; 12 Ph.D. are ongoing. He has completed 10 research projects and more than 200 consultancy projects. He has been recipient of Outstanding teacher award, Philip H. Burgi Award, Jal Vigyan Puraskar (twice); G.N. Nawathe, Department of Irrigation Award, Outstanding Reviewer of ASCE Journals etc. He is member of various BIS committees and reviewers of various national and international journals. Prof. Ahmad has designed many hydraulic structures like Almora Barrage, Ghaggar and Patiala Syphon Aqueducts, Gangapath Patna, River Training works, and addressed many water resources problems related to morphology and erosion & siltation in the rivers. Prof. Giuseppe Oliveto is Associate Professor of Hydraulic Engineering at the School of Engineering of University of Basilicata (Italy). Since 1992 he has been carrying out theoretical and experimental studies encompassing: evolution and patterns of river networks, fluvial hydraulics, sediment transport, bridge hydraulics, and urban drainage hydraulics. He is author of more than 100 papers in scientific journals and conference proceedings. He currently is Associate Editor of: Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering (ASCE); Water Journal (MDPI), and Advances in Civil Engineering (Hindawi). He has been Leading Guest Editor of the Special Collection "Sediment Transport in Water-Resources Engineering" for Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering (ASCE) and the Special Issue "Bridge Hydraulics: Current State of the Knowledge and Perspectives" for Water Journal (MDPI). He was recognized as: "ASCE Outstanding Reviewer" by Journal of Hydraulic Engineering (ASCE) in 2011; "ASCE Outstanding Reviewer" by Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering (ASCE) in 2018 and 2019; "MDPI-Water Outstanding Reviewer" by Water Journal (MDPI) in 2018, 2019, and 2022. He has been awarded the Robert Alfred Carr Prize by the Council of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) - London (UK) for the paper "Temporal scour evolution at non-uniform bridge piers" published in the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Water Management, Volume 170, October 2017.
