Sustainable Materials and Technologies under Climate Change Scenario Select Proceedings of SMET 2024 - Vol 1

Dr. Chalak Hanuman Devidas  has approximately 17 years of teaching experience. Dr. Chalak obtained his Ph.D. in Structural Engineering from IIT Roorkee in 2012. He has published 88 papers in international/national journals and 60 papers in international/national conferences and authored five book chapters. His research has been cited 1,766 times on Google Scholar (H-index = 25). He has been granted 01 patent in structural engineering. He has supervised four Ph.D. scholars and one is in progress, 25 M.Tech. theses, and more than 10 B.Tech. projects. His field of specialization is structural engineering, with research interests including functionally graded material application of FRP in civil engineering. Dr. Chalak has provided consultancy services as a principal investigator in various structural engineering projects for government, public, and private organizations. Prof. Ashwani Jain  is currently a Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at NIT Kurukshetra. With about 35 years of teaching experience, he has completed two research projects, guided four Ph.D. students, and supervised 96 M.Tech. dissertations. He has published about 165 research papers in various international and national journals and conferences and authored 10 book chapters. His field of specialization is geotechnical engineering, with research interests including seismic hazard analysis, liquefaction susceptibility mapping, strength characteristics of intact rocks, behavior of closely-spaced footings, soil stabilization, geo-environmental engineering, and designing with geosynthetics. Prof. Jain has acted as a principal investigator and participated in several consultancy projects under the Geotechnical Engineering Division. Prof. Praveen Aggarwal is currently a Professor in the Civil Engineering Department at NIT Kurukshetra since 2013. Prof. Praveen Aggarwal obtained his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from IIT Delhi in 2002. His field of specialization is transportation engineering. He has published 30 research papers in international/national journals and 50 in international/national conferences. He has supervised four awarded/submitted Ph.D. scholars and three in progress. He has supervised 68 awarded M.Tech. dissertations and seven in progress. Prof. Aggarwal has provided consultancy services as a principal investigator in various transportation engineering projects for government, public, and private organizations.