4^th International Conference on Advanced Steel Structures November 09-10, 2017 Singapore

Dr. Atorod Azizinamini, P.E., Vasant H. Surti Professor of Civil Engineering, Director of Accelerated Bridge Construction University Transportation Center and Chairperson of Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at Florida International University, in Miami, Florida. Dr. Azizinamini was a Distinguished College of Engineering Professor and Director of National Bridge Research Organization at University of Nebraska-Lincoln, before joining FIU in Jan 2011. His research focuses in bridge engineering and has carried out more than $40M in research as a Principal Investigator. He has developed several bridge engineering products and systems that are being used nationally and internationally. Among the bridge systems that he has developed are folded plate steel bridge system, composite systems and simple for dead and continuous for live load system for steel bridges. Under SHRP2 R19A he led the development of the first and most comprehensive document and devoted to service life design of concrete and steel bridges. He has published more than 200 technical publications related to structures and bridge engineering. He routinely gives keynote talks at major national and international bridge engineering conferences. He has received a number of national awards, including: 2015 White House Champion of Change: Transportation Innovator, American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC), Special Achievement Award and several bridge innovation awards. He has organized and chaired numerous National Bridge Engineering Conferences and has taught more than 40 short courses to consultants and practitioners across the country on design of bridges.

• Structural and Bridge Engineering • Design of Concrete and Steel Bridges • Folded plate Bridge system • Innovative Bridge Design • Advanced Materials in Bridge system

Dr. QIAN Xudong is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the National University of Singapore (NUS). He is currently the Director at Centre for Advanced Materials and Structures in NUS, and the co-director for NUS-JTC industrial infrastructure innovation centre. Prof Qian’s research interest focuses on experimental fracture mechanics, fracture and fatigue assessment for steel/offshore structures, welded tubular connections, steel-concrete-steel composite structures, brittle fracture assessment for Arctic applications, polymer composite materials for deep-water applications, structural resilience under extreme and impact loadings. He has published more than 120 papers in international journals and conferences. Prof Qian has been serving as members in different Technical Committees for the International Ship and Offshore Structures Congress. He is currently also a member of the ASTM E-08 committee on fatigue and fracture.

Experimental fracture mechanics, fracture and fatigue assessment for steel/offshore structures, welded tubular connections, steel-concrete-steel composite structures, brittle fracture assessment for Arctic applications, polymer composite materials for deep-water applications, structural resilience under extreme and impact loadings.

Dr Konstantinos Tsavdaridis is Associate Professor and the Director of the research group focuses on steel and steel-concrete composite structures in the School of Civil Engineering at the University of Leeds. He holds a MEng from City, University of London and an MSc (DIC) from Imperial College London. His research expertise is in structural product development that embraces resilience and sustainability; particularly the development of innovative seismic-resistant structural members and systems, and testing large and full scale specimens. He has published some 100 scientific articles, journal publications, technical reports and international conference papers. Dr Tsavdaridis is also an inventor and he has filed a few patents on resilient, lightweight, and sustainable structural systems. He is an active member of the Working Group 8 of the International Association of Shell and Spatial Structures (IASS) and of the Task Groups 7.6 and 7.7 of the International Federation of Structural Concrete (fib). He is a Chartered Civil Engineer in Greece and the UK (CEng), a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers (FICE), a Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (MASCE), and a Registered Civil Engineer in Europe recognised by the European Federation of National Engineering Associations, FEANI (EUR ING).

Development of innovative seismic-resistant structural members and systems, and testing large and full scale specimens.He has filed a few patents on resilient, lightweight, and sustainable structural systems.

Dr Lin Shaopei, professor, Civil Engineering Department in Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Fellow and Chartered Engineer of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE, UK) and CEO of ICE China Education and Training Center. He has been the chair of AI application panel, Chinese Society of Civil Engineering. His award includes the Government Special Allowance of the State Council PRC in 1991, the Lifetime Achievement Award of PMI (China) in 2012, the Excellent Service Award of ICE in 2015 and the Service Achievement Award of PMI GAC in 2016.He has had a long-term experience in engineering research during past 60 years and had been research professor in Cornell University, USA and Hong Kong University and published Eight books and nearly 200 papers in domestic and international Journals, conferences covering a variety of disciplines, including engineering, economics, system engineering, computational mechanics, IT & computer application, fuzzy mathematics and artificial intelligence applications, etc.

• Structural Engineering • Design of Structures • Project Management • Artificial Intelligence for Engineering

Biljana Šćepanović, Dr-Ing, associate professor of the University of Montenegro, has focused her research work, as well as engineering expertise in the domain of steel, timber and aluminium structures. She has reach experience in modelling of patch loaded steel girders, with special emphasis on the case of eccentric patch load and its analysis by both experimental and numerical methods. Prof. Šćepanović realised most of her research work at the University of Montenegro, where she also has successful teaching career, and at the University of Granada. Her teaching and research experience have been enriched by several study visits at European universities, as a visiting researcher and/or teacher.

• Steel, Timber and Aluminium Structures • Patch loaded Steel Girders

Dr. Yoshiaki Goto is a project Professor of Next Generation Seismic Design Laboratory and an Emeritus Professor of Civil Engineering at Nagoya Institute of Technology, Nagoya, Japan. He received his doctor's degree in civil engineering from the University of Tokyo. He is a fellow of Japan Society of Civil Engineers (JSCE) and served as a Director of academic affairs. He now chairs JSCE and JSSC committees for seismic design specifications for steel & composite structures. He has published more than 250 technical papers. He received JSCE Awards such as Award for outstanding research achievement (2010), Award for outstanding research publication (2009) and Tanaka Award for outstanding research publication in bridge engineering(1997).

• Seismic Design and Seismic Control of Steel and Composite Bridges • Advanced Seismic Analysis • Stability Design of Steel and Composite structures • Computational Mechanics

Dr Lau is currently Dean of Faculty of Engineering and Science, Curtin University Malaysia campus. Professor Lau is a long serving member of Curtin University Malaysia campus community where he has accumulated over 14 years of teaching experience at Curtin University in the field of Civil Engineering. Prior to joining Curtin University Malaysia Campus, he worked in the consulting industry Professor Lau received the Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) in Civil Engineering and PhD degrees from Oxford Brookes University, UK. He is a Professional Engineer with Practicing Certificate registered with Board of Engineers Malaysia (BEM) and also Chartered Professional Engineer with Engineers Australia. Professor Lau is also Vice Chairman 1 of The Institution of Engineers Malaysia (IEM), Miri Branch and one of the founding members and the Honorary Secretary of the Malaysia Cold-formed Steel Institute (MyCSI).

• Advances in Structural Engineering • Steel and Composite Structures • Structural Engineering and Mechanics • Constructional Steel Research • Cold-formed Steel

Dr Xuechun Liu is a vice-professor in the Beijing Engineering Research Center of High-rise and Large-span Pre-stressed Steel Structures at the Beijing University of Technology. National First Class Registered Structural Engineer of China. He received his Ph.D. in Structural Engineering from the Beijing University of Technology. He is a Trustee of the Fatigue and Stability branch and Steel Structure Design Branch of China Steel Construction Society and Executive director of steel structural building branch of China steel construction society. He Published more than 90 papers, in which 30 papers were indexed by SCI / EI and have 100 patent ownerships,Organized and attended over 10 the National Key Research and Development Program of China, the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Beijing Municipal Natural Science Foundation.

• Steel Structures • Prefabricated Steel Structures • Pre-stressed Steel Structures

Dr Airong Liu is currently working as Professor and Director of Guangzhou University-Tamkang University Joint Research, Centre for Engineering Structure Disaster Prevention and Control at Guangzhou University, People’s Republic of China. She was externally appointed as Vice director of China International Science and Technology Cooperation Base, Vice director of Guangdong Engineering Technology R&D Center, Council member of The Chinese Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics on Civil Engineering. Also she works as Reviewer of ‘Journal of structure engineering’, ’Journal of bridge engineering’, ‘International of structural stability and vibration’, ‘Journal of Constructional Steel’, ’Engineering Mechanics’, ’Chinese Journal of Computational Mechanics’.

• Bridge engineering • Engineering mechanics • Structural stability • Earthquake resistance of structure • Structural health monitoring

Dr Qiu-Sheng Li is Chair Professor of Civil Engineering and the director of Architecture and Civil Engineering Research Centre at City University of Hong Kong. He graduated from Shanghai Jiao-Tong University with BEng in 1984 and from Harbin Institute of Technology with MEng in 1987. He obtained his PhD from Monash University in 1996 and his PhD thesis was awarded Professor K.H. Hunt Medal. His research areas include wind engineering, structural dynamics and computational mechanics. He has published four books and over 280 refereed international journal papers. Prof. Li has received several awards for his academic contributions including National Natural Science Foundation of Chinese Outstanding Oversea Scientist Award in 2004 and The First Class Award of the Scientific and Technological Progress from the Ministry of Education of China in 2010. He was appointed as Chang Jiang Chair Professor by the State Education Ministry of China in 2007 and National Expert of the 1000 Talent Scheme by the Ministry of Human Resources of China in 2013. In particular, Prof. Li is the recipient of the 2016 Jack E. Cermak Medal from the American Society of Civil Engineers, the highest honour in wind engineering, in recognition of “his many contributions to wind engineering that range from fundamental to applied research”. Currently, he is an associate editor of Journal of Structural Engineering, ASCE and an editorial board member for fifteen international journals.

• Wind Engineering • Structural dynamics • Structural health monitoring • Structural control • Structural Stability • Earthquake engineering

Ezzeldin Yazeed Sayed-Ahmed is a Professor and the Graduate Program Director in the Department of Construction Engineering, the American University in Cairo. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Scientific Research and Technology, and a Reinforced Concrete and Steel Structures Consultant in Egypt. He is also a Professor Emeritus in Ain Shams University and served as the Acting Director of its Credit Hours Engineering Programs between 2007 and 2008. He was the Associate Dean of the College of Engineering of Qatar University between 2005 and 2006. He is currently a voting member of the permanent committee for the Egyptian Code of Practice for Fibre Reinforced Polymers and the Chair of the Technical Subcommittee preparing the first Egyptian code of practice for Composite Polymers Structures. He was a member in many engineering societies such as IABSE (Switzerland), CSCE and CPCI (Canada), ASCE, SEI and TMS (USA).He has a USA Patent, 142 publications of which 53 papers in refereed Journal. Ezzeldin Yazeed designed/design-reviewed many iconic projects such as the Four 140 m high Minarets of Al-Haram AlMakki Extension, (KSA), Al-Haram AlMakki FRP Temporary Mataf, King AdbdulAziz Endowment Tower FRP Clock, Cambambe Hydroelectric Power Plant and Dam (Angola), Storm-water Drainage for Muzdalifah, (KSA), National Guard Five Specialized Hospitals (KSA), etc.

• Steel Structures and Bridge • Advanced Composite Materials • Strengthening of Structures • Seismic Behaviour of High-Rise Buildings with Transfer Floors • Mass Concrete in Dams • Structural Response to Subsurface Blasting • Concrete Masonry Structures • Biomechanics Engineering, and Engineering Education.

Dr Masoud Motavalli is a Professor at Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Professor at the University of Tehran, lecturer at ETH-Zurich and Adjunct Professor at Monash University in Australia. He obtained his Doctor of Engineering at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH-Zurich in 1992. His laboratory at Empa is one of the largest structural engineering laboratories for carrying out full scale structural tests in Europe. His research interests are the application of advanced materials such as multi layered fiber reinforced polymers and shape memory alloys in civil engineering structures, micro and macro mechanical behavior of these materials, rehabilitation and repair of existing structures with post-tensioned advanced materials. He is a council member of IIFC and ISHMII, Member of the ASCE Committee on Performance Based Design and Evaluation, as well as member of the editorial board of several journals such as Journal of Civil Structural Health Monitoring. He organized or co-organized several successful international conferences, such as CICE2008 in Zurich, SHMII2009 in Zurich, SMAR2011 in Dubai, SMAR2013 in Istanbul and SMAR2015 in Antalya and SMAR2017 in Zurich.

• Advanced materials in Civil Engineering Structures • Rehabilitation and repair of existing structures with post-tensioned advanced materials

Dr. Fatimah De’nan is currently an Associate Professor for School Of Civil Engineering at Universiti Sains Malaysia. She pursued her Ph.D. in Civil Engineering – Steel Structures. Before joining the USM, she worked for consultant firm and had significant exposure to several field and design works. While being at the USM, she continues providing consultancy services especially in steel structures design and testing to the industries. Her main research interests are Steel Structure, Concrete Structure, Structural Analysis, Design and Testing, Finite Element Analysis, Non Uniform Steel Section Behavior and Thin Structure. Structural Engineering subjects taught includes Design of Steel and Timber Structures, Concrete and Fluid Mechanics Laboratory, Structural Engineering and Strength of Materials Laboratory, Reinforced Concrete Structural Design 1, Strength of Materials, Integrated Design Project, Dynamics and Stability of Structures, Principles of Structural Design, Advanced Structural Mechanics. Since 2011, she was appointed as a member of an academic panel (Engineering Division) for the Matriculation Programme, Ministry of Education, Malaysia. She is active in publishing papers for International Journals, Conferences and Seminars, and reviewing papers for International Journals and Conferences. Dr Fatimah actively involves in professional organizations such as Education Committee Member of Malaysian Structural Steel Association (MSSA), Member of Concrete Society of Malaysia (CSM), and Committee Member of Experimental Society of Malaysia. She received 4 International awards for her research products in 2011, 2012 and 2016. In National level, she had received 9 awards since 2012 until present for Open Ideas Steel competition by Malaysian structural Steel Association (MSSA). Other than that, she also actively involved in community service and had received a excellence achievement (one award for national level and 4 awards for university level) in community service in 2015 and 2016 from USM. She also has a copyright for her steel product, patent pending and several copyright ready to publish.

Steel Structure; Structural Analysis; Reinforced Concrete Structure; Non uniform steel section; Structural Design; Finite Element Analysis

Dr Jui-Lin Peng received Ph.D. degree in Civil Engineering from the School of Civil Engineering, Purdue University in 1994. He is currently employed by National Yunlin University of Science and Technology (YunTech) as a professor in the Department of Civil and Construction Engineering. His research interests focus on the safety evaluation of temporary structures of scaffolds and shores, structural stability analysis, full-scale structural experiments, behavior of steel structures, nonlinear analysis of structures, structural reliability, etc.

• Safety evaluation of temporary structures of scaffolds and shores • Structural stability analysis • Full-scale structural experiments • Behavior of steel structures • Nonlinear analysis of structures • Structural reliability

Dr. Sivakugan received his Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, with First Class Honors. He earned his MSCE and Ph.D. from Purdue University, West Lafayette, U.S.A. Dr. Sivakugan’s writings include six books, 140 refereed international journal papers, 100 refereed international conference papers, and more than 100 consulting reports. As a registered professional engineer of Queensland and a chartered professional engineer, Dr. Sivakugan does substantial consulting work for the geotechnical and mining industry in Australia and overseas, including the World Bank. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers and Engineers Australia. He has supervised 13 Ph.D. students to completion at James Cook University, Queensland, Australia, where he was the Head of Civil Engineering from 2003 to 2014.

• Foundations • Building Constructions

Professor Y. B. Yang received his Ph.D. degree from Cornell University in 1984. He is a member of Chinese Academy of Engineering and foreign member of Austrian Academy of Sciences. Currently, he is Honorary Dean of Civil Engineering, Chongqing University, Professor Emeritus of National Taiwan University (NTU) and Distinguished Chair Professor of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Also, he is an Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Structural Stability and Dynamics, President of Asian-Pacific Association of Computational Mechanics (APACM), and Chairman of East Asia-Pacific Conference on Structural Engineering and Construction (EASEC). Previously, he was President of National Yunlin University of Science and Technology and NTU Dean of Engineering. His areas of expertise include structural nonlinear theory and analysis, vehicle-bridge interaction dynamics, and train-induced wave propagation.

• structural nonlinear theory and analysis • Structural Stability and Dynamics • vehicle-bridge interaction dynamics, and train-induced wave propagation

Dr James Lim has been a full-time academic since 2007, having previously worked at University of Strathclyde and Queen's University, Belfast, before joining University of Auckland in 2014. Prior to this, I worked at the Steel Construction Institute (SCI), the UK equivalent of HERA. His research interests lie in the field of steel-framed structures, including cold-formed steel, portal frames and composite construction. His research is dominated in trying to understand fundamental structural behaviour, for which he employ a combination of numerical modelling and full-scale testing. More recently, his research includes structural engineering applications to Building Information Modelling (BIM).

Cold-formed steel, Composite construction, Building Information Modelling, Portal frames, Trusses, Genetic Algorithms, Concrete filled steel tubes.

Dr Piero Colajanni is Associate Professor of Structural Engineering at the Department of Civil, Environmental, Aerospace, Materials Engineering (DICAM), University of Palermo. He has his MsC in Civil Engineering (1990), and PhD. in Structural Engineering (1995) at Palermo University. In 1996 was visiting assistant Professor at Florida Atlantic University, Department of Mechanical Engineering, researcher of Engineering and Solid Mechanics in 1997, and Associate Professor in Structural Engineering in 2001 at University of Messina. In 2013 moved to University of Palermo, where nowadays teaches Building Structural Analysis and Design and Seismic Design of buildings. Since 1991 is member of Italian National Association of Earthquake Engineering and was promoter and president of the scientific committee of Master in Seismic Engineering at University of Messina in 2003 and 2006. Author of more than 150 papers on international and national journals, and conference proceedings. The research activities include in the fields of Structural Engineering and Seismic Engineering, focused of Procedure for Seismic Design, Vulnerability Assessment and Retrofitting of Buildings, the use of innovative devices and materials for seismic protection of new and existing structure and design of Hybrid Steel Truss Concrete Beams. He participated on several national research projects and currently is the managing director of the operative unit of Palermo in the Reluis DPC 2014-2017 project.

• Structural Engineering • Seismic Engineering • Seismic Design • Vulnerability Assessment and Retrofitting of Buildings • The use of innovative devices and materials for seismic protection of new and existing structure • Design of Hybrid Steel Truss Concrete Beams

Dr Ali Said Mohammed Alnuaimi is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering at Sultan Qaboos University, Oman. He earned his Ph.D. in Structural Engineering from University of Glasgow, UK. He published various journals and attended several Conferences. He is also a Peer reviewer for articles submitted different international Journals. He acted as Deputy Chair, Gulf States, GCC, Building Code, Oman Committee (May 2013-Feb. 2015).He developed new courses from scratch like Concrete structures, CIVL5096 , Administration of Contracts, CIVL 5678 ,Estimating Construction Cost, CIVL 5156 , Numerical Methods for Engineering, CIVL5146 and taught them at the college of engineering .He was recognized as Best session presentation of “International Conference on Innovations in Engineering and Technology (ICIET'2013), Bangkok, Thailand, Dec. 25-26, International Institute of Engineers.

• Concrete Structures & Design • Steel Design • Estimating construction cost • Administration of contracts • Construction Waste management

Dr Syed Abid Ali Shah is a Full time Chairman & Professor of Civil Engineering Department at International Islamic University, Islamabad, Pakistan. He pursued his Post doctorates in Structural Engineering and Structural Mechanics. He is Registered as Professional Engineer with Pakistan Engineering Council (Life Registration), Member German Engineering Research Foundation (2001-2005),Member Technical Committee for Concrete Reinforcing Materials, Botswana Bureau of Standards (Member of International Organization for Standardization-ISO), Gaborone Botswana-Southern Africa (2005-2006),Member Saudi Council of Engineers (2009-Present).His Experience and skills enlighten working with Large structural frames (6000 kN capacity) for testing of large scale proto-type flexural and compression members and ACI code, ASTM, AISC, LRFD standards for analysis and design of steel structures, German and Japanese standards for design of concrete structures.

• Non-linear ultrasonic and acoustic emission evaluation of structural materials degradation • Application of artificial neural network (ANN) to analysis of steel and concrete structures • Inverse problems in acoustic tomography • Punching shear of flat-plate slab-column connections in high-rise buildings • Mechanics of structures • Fracture mechanics • Infrastructure health and system monitoring, repair, rehabilitation/retrofitting of Structures

Dr Hyo-Gyoung Kwak is a Professor for Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST).He earned his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering and presently working as Department Head. He undertook various gatherings as Organizing Committee Member for related fields. He focuses on Computational nonlinear mechanics for geo-materials, Prognosis assessment of damaged or rehabilitated concrete structures, Time-dependent analysis of reinforced and pre-stressed concrete structures, Design methodologies of civil infra-structures considering the construction sequence, Performance prediction of retrofitted infrastructures with composites, Design and construction of long-span bridges, Smart structure technologies for IT convergence urban space. Also he is affiliated as Fellow, Korean Academy of Science and Technology, 2012 – present.

• Prognosis assessment of damaged or rehabilitated concrete structures • Time-dependent analysis of reinforced and pre-stressed concrete structures • Design methodologies of civil infra-structures considering the construction sequence • Performance prediction of retrofitted infrastructures with composites • Design and construction of long-span bridges

Dr Mohd Hilton Bin Ahmad is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Structures and Materials Engineering for Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia(UTHM).He pursued his Ph.D. in Structures and Materials Engineering at University of Surrey, United Kingdom.He has published various journals in related to Structural Engineering and done several researches. He was Professionally engaged with Board of Engineers, Malaysia (Graduate Member, Ref. No: 41531 R), Institute of Engineers Malaysia (IEM Malaysia) (Graduate Member, Membership No: 27641), Society of Concrete Malaysia (PERKOM) (Corporate Member) .

• Structure Behaviour of Notches and Bolted Joints • Strength Prediction In CFRP Woven Laminate Bolted Single-lap Joints • Lightweight concrete by using waste Styrofoam and fly ash • concrete technology

Dr. HE Jun is currently an Associate Professor and the Director of the research group focuses on steel and steel-concrete composite structures in the School of Civil Engineering at the Changsha University of Science and Technology, People’s Republic of China. He obtained his PhD degree (Bridge Engineering) from Tongji University, China, and then worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Waseda University, Japan, before He joined CSUST. His research interest includes experimental and theoretical investigations into various forms of hybrid structures, steel-concrete composite joints and girders, GFRP/concrete composite decks; life cycle design and maintenance of bridges, and the finite element simulation of various structural problems, including the simulation of various engineering materials (e.g. concrete, steel and FRP composites). He has published various scientific articles, journal publications, technical reports and international conference papers. Dr. He has been serving as a member of the ASCE, JSCE, IABSE, IABMAS and IALCCE. Also, Dr. He has been invited to be a reviewer for several refereed international journals (e.g. Composite Structures, Composites Part B: Engineering, Journal of Constructional Steel Research, Construction & Building Materials, Engineering Structures, Steel and Composite Structures, etc.).

• Bridge Engineering • Steel-Concrete Composite Structures • GFRP/concrete composite decks • Life cycle design and maintenance of bridges • Finite Element Analysis

Dr. Nariman Khalil is an associate professor in the department of civil engineering at the University of Balamand. She received her Ph.D. degree in reinforced concrete structures from the University of Leeds- England in 1991. She has more than two decades experience in teaching structural analysis and reinforced concrete design and providing consultancy for private and governmental sectors in the Middle East. Her technical publications in refereed journals and peer-reviewed conferences span multiple areas and disciplines including structural stability and design, concrete technology, high way materials and engineering education. Dr. Khalil also excelled in national and international activities and is consistently involved in the organizing and chairing international scientific conferences. She is a member of several professional organizations such as the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) & the American Concrete Institute (ACI). She is a founder and Board member of the Middle East Society of Asphalt Technologists (MESAT). She recently initiated the first ACI Student Chapter in Lebanon and serving as the Chapter Advisor.

• Reinforced concrete structures & Design • Structural Analysis • Structural stability and design • Concrete technology • concrete sustainability • High way materials

Dr Urmil V.Dave is currently working as Professor for Department of Civil Engineering and coordinator, Academic Development and Research (ADR) Cell at Nirma University. He has 20 Years of teaching & 2 years of industrial experience. He taught most of the subjects of Structural Engineering and Concrete Technology also involved in consultancy and testing work related to Concreting materials and Repair & Rehabilitation of structures. He works as a Reviewer for various journals and working as Secretary and treasurer of Indian Concrete Institute, Ahmedabad. He has been invited for giving expert talks in various programs by companies and academic institutions.

• Concrete Technology • Structural Engineering • Repair and Rehabilitation of RC Structural Elements using Innovative Materials