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Speakers in the Event

Dr. Ashish Goel, DG NRIDA

Dr. Ashish Kumar Goel joined the Indian Administrative Service in 1995. Before joining in the Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India, he has had extensive experience of working in the Government of Uttar Pradesh in various key positions. Recently, he was entrusted with the task of organizing Prayagraj Kumbh, 2019 in his role as Divisional Commissioner, Prayagraj. Kumbh, 2019 has been hailed as the first ever Open-defecation free, Odour free and Garbage free Kumbh, and also an incident free Kumbh ever. Earlier, he has held positions such as MD, UP Road Transport Corporation; MD, West UP Power Distribution Corporation; Secretary, Basic Education; and Secretary, Rural Development in the State Government. He has been Collector/ District Magistrate in many districts of UP such as Prayagraj (Allahabad), Agra, Bareilly, Kanpur (Rural), Sultanpur, Muzaffarnagar, etc. Dr. Goel is a graduate in Electrical Engineering from IIT, Delhi. During the course of his service, he has also acquired M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics. He also attended M.Sc. programme in Public Management and Governance at the London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.
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PIARC Dr. Phill Paige Green, South Africa

Phil graduated with a BSc (Hons) and MSc from the University of Natal and a PhD from the University of Pretoria, 1989, all in Engineering Geology. He worked at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in Pretoria South Africa (and for 2 years in Muscat, Sultanate of Oman), for 37 years in 27 countries. Mainly involved in research and implementation of materials aspects related to roads, road construction and transportation geotechnics. He retired in 2013 and is now a specialist consultant in geomaterials and roads with Paige-Green Consulting (Pty) Ltd and Extraordinary Professor in the faculty of Civil Engineering at the Tshwane University of Technology.
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Dr. K Sudhakar Reddy, IIT Kharagpur

Dr. K. Sudhakar Reddy is currently the Professor & Head of the Department of Civil Engineering at IIT Kharagpur. He obtained both Doctoral and Master of Technology degrees from IIT Kharagpur specializing in pavement engineering. He has more than three decades of research, teaching, and administrative experience in transportation engineering and related areas. His research areas include pavement analysis, pavement design, pavement evaluation, and pavement materials. He has published many articles in national and international journals and conferences. He has been presented with several awards from the Indian Roads Congress for his research contribution. Further, he has undertaken and completed several projects from the Ministry of Road Transport & Highways (MoRTH), and other industrial consultancy projects.
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Dr. Anand Puppala, Texas A&M University

He is a Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering A.P. & Florence Wiley Chair Interim Director, Center for Infrastructure Renewal. His research interests are Expansive and unsaturated soils, Ground modification (shallow and deep soil stabilization), Recycled waste materials, Sustainability in geotechnical engineering, In situ and non-destructive soil testing, Pavement geotechnics and site characterization.
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Prof Kim J Jenkins

Kim Jenkins. Professor in Pavement Engineering at Stellenbosch University. Stellenbosch University. City of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
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ADB/World Bank

The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans and grants to the governments of low- and middle-income countries for the purpose of pursuing capital projects. The World Bank is the collective name for the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) and the International Development Association (IDA), two of five international organizations owned by the World Bank Group.The World Bank is run by a president and 25 executive directors, as well as 29 various vice presidents. IBRD and IDA have 189 and 174 member countries, respectively. The U.S., Japan, China, Germany and the U.K. have the most voting power. The bank aims loans at developing countries to help reduce poverty. The bank is engaged in several global partnerships and initiatives, and takes a role in working toward addressing climate change.
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Dr. Arun Kumar, RMIT Australia

He is a senor lecture in STEM College. He researches on Logistics and Supply Chain Management, Healthcare Systems Management, Operations Research, Reliability Engineering. Supervising Research Students (MEng).He is the course coordinator of AERO 2248. His Qualifications are BTech (Hons), MS, PhD (Min Eng) Virginia Tech, PhD (Indust Eng & Op Res) Virginia Tech, MIEEE.
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Dr. Anjan Kumar, IIT Guwahati

He is an Assistant Professor in IIT GUWAHATI. He is expertise in Transportation Space and Technology.His Qualification is Ph.D
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Dr. Umesh Sahoo, IIT Bhubaneshwar

He is Assistant Professor in IIT Bhubaneshwar. He taught Transportation Engineering,Analysis and pavements for design,Advanced Transportation.His Research interests are Pavement Analysis and Design,Pavement Material Characterization,Pavement Evaluation and Maintenance,Low Volume Roads,Cool Pavements etc.One of his research projects are "Characterization of Granular Lateritic Soils for Mechanistic Design of Pavements".
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Shri Guru Vittal, CRRI

Chief Scientist working in the roads and transportation sector. Skilled in Geotechnical engineering aspects of road construction, Rural Roads, Use of waste and marginal materials, Quality management of road works, and Training in-service engineers. I am having M.E Degree in Highway Engineering from University Vishvesvaraya College of Engineering, Bangalore. Presently working at CSIR-Central Road Research Institute, New Delhi
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Dr. M.Amarnath Reddy, IIT Kharagpur

Dr. M.AMARANATHA REDDY, Professor in Civil Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur . His area of specialization is Transportation Engineering and specific interests: Structural Evaluation of Pavements, Sustainability concept in PavementMaterials and Pavement Design . He has 26 years of academic and research experience. Dr Reddy has published nearly 65 technical papers (International, national journals &conferences) and he has carried out sponsored research worth of 350 lakhs apart from several consultancy projects in Pavement Engineering.
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Dr Gerrie Van Zyl, South Africa

He is expertise in Civil Engineering Materials,Construction Materials. His Projects are Gravel Road Maintainence,Optimizing unpaved road maintenance.
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Dr Jie han of Kansas University

Dr. Jie Han is a professor in geotechnical engineering at Department of Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering at the University of Kansas. He received his Ph.D. degree in Civil Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1997 and then worked as the manager of technology development at Tensar Earth Technologies, Inc. from 1997 to 2001. He ever joined in Widener University as a faculty member in Civil Engineering from 2001 to 2004. His research has focused on geosynthetics, earth-retaining structures, ground improvement, pile foundations, and pavement design.
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Dr Manik Burman Minnesota University

Dr. Manik Barman conducts research on pavement materials, design, maintenance, and rehabilitation. He teaches infrastructure materials and pavement engineering-related courses at the University of Minnesota Duluth. Barman is actively involved in several professional organizations and currently serves as a member of two standing committees of the Transportation Research Board and a member of the board of directors for the International Society for Concrete Pavements (ISCP). He is a peer reviewer of several scholarly journals in his research area.Barman received his PhD and master's degrees in civil engineering from the University of Pittsburgh and Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, respectively. Before joining UMD in 2015, he served as a senior research fellow at the University of Oklahoma.
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Dr Iswandaru Widyatmoko AECOM, UK

Iswandaru is a Chartered Engineer (UK), leading Materials R& D at AECOM, responsible for directing and managing technical staffs, and ensuring QA, health and safety and environment management systems have been applied in all projects. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institutions of Highways and Transportation, Fellow of the Institute of Asphalt Technology and member of the Association of Asphalt Paving Technologists. He is a member of the BSI Sub-committees on Asphalt Products, Surface Treatments and Bitumen and Related Products. In addition to these activities, he has been involved in managing collaborative research programs with UK industries.
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Prof. Soheil Nazarian, University of Texas at El Paso

He is a Professor in Civil Engineering Environmental Science and Engineering - Center for Transportation Infrastructure Systems (CTIS).And he is a Director, ASPIRE NSF ERC; Director, NSF ASPIRE ERC; Graduate Coordinator, Civil Engineering; Director, Center for Transportation Infrastrcture Systems.
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Dr. Nikhil Saboo, IIT Roorkee

He is a Assistant Professor in IIT Rookree. He is specialist in Transportation Engineering.His area of interests are Study of Viscoelastic Characteristics of Asphalt Binders and Mixes, Rheology of Asphalt Binders, Pavement Evaluation, Design and Analysis, Pavement Materials and Testing, Use of Recycled Materials in Pavements.
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Dr. Rajib B. Mallick, IITD

He is a Professor in Civil Enginerring at IIT Delhi. He is expert in Transportation Engineering, Pavement Engineering.
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Dr Manoj Sukla, CRRI, New Delhi

Dr. Manoj Shukla is a Professor for the Plant and Environmental Sciences. He is also Chair of Awards Committee, Member of Curriculum and Graduate Studies committee of the Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, and member of regional coordination committee on trickle irrigation. Dr. Shukla’s areas of interest include assessment of physical, chemical and thermal properties of soil, and chemical fate and transport in the soil.
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Dr. Laszlo Gaspar, Hungary

Laszlo Gaspar works for the Institute for Transport Sciences (KTI) in Budapest, Hungary as a research professor. Besides, he is a full-time university professor in Széchenyi István University, Gy•r. He holds Ph.D., D.Sc. and habilitation degrees. Dr. Gaspar’s 40 year scientific carreer has concentrated on pavement management, pavement condition evaluation, asset management, lifetime engineering and pavement economy. He has been the member of various PIARC technical committees, recently TC 4.1 "Management of Road Infrastructure Assets”. He has more than 300 publications, 75 of them in English, 7 in German.
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