Innovation and Sustainability in Civil Engineering: Shaping Tomorrow's Infrastructure Volume 3: Geotechnical Engineering
暫譯: 土木工程中的創新與可持續性：塑造明日基礎設施 第三卷：岩土工程

Dr. Shiv Shankar Kumar is an assistant professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at National Institute of Technology Patna, Bihar. He has completed his Ph.D. in Geotechnical Engineering from IIT Guwahati in 2018, where his research focused on the dynamic response of soils subjected to seismic excitations, utilizing cyclic triaxial testing. He also holds a Master of Technology in Geotechnical Engineering from IIT Guwahati and a B.Sc. in Civil Engineering from Muzaffarpur Institute of Technology, Bihar. His thrust area of research is Foundation Engineering, Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering, Soil-Structure Interaction, and Ground Improvement Techniques.

Dr. Kumar has an impressive publication record with numerous journal articles, book chapters, and conference papers published in renowned journals such as the Indian Geotechnical Journal, Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, and International Journal of Geo-engineering. His research has significantly contributed to understanding soil behavior under seismic loads and developing site-specific ground response models, especially for regions like Bihar and Northeast India. His expertise encompasses advanced testing techniques, including cyclic triaxial tests, shake table experiments, and surface wave analysis, which underpin his research on seismic site response, soil liquefaction, and ground improvement.

Dr. Anil Kumar Sharma is an assistant professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at the National Institute of Technology (NIT) Patna, India. He holds a Ph.D. in Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, where his research focused on the application of industrial by-products such as Class-F fly ash and ground granulated blast furnace slag (GGBS) for sustainable geotechnical improvements. He completed his B.Tech. in Civil Engineering from Cochin University of Science and Technology in 2009.
Dr. Sharma's research interests lie in the domains of bio-geotechnics, ground improvement techniques, recycled construction materials, geosynthetics, slope stability, and environmental geotechnics. He has made significant contributions to sustainable construction practices, particularly in the stabilization of problematic soils using eco-friendly and waste-derived materials. His current research also explores microbial-induced calcite precipitation (MICP) for improving coal ash and other geomaterials.

Dr. Arindam Dey is currently an associate professor at Civil Engineering Department of IIT Guwahati. He is also an associate faculty and one of the founder members of the Center for Disaster Management and Research (CDMR), IIT Guwahati. He obtained his B.E. from Jadavpur University Kolkata, followed by M.Tech. and Ph.D. from IIT Kanpur. Before joining IIT Guwahati in 2011, he has been a post-doctoral fellow at the StreGa Laboratory, University of Molise, Campobasso, Italy. He is an active researcher in several streams of geotechnical engineering and disaster management including foundation engineering, geotechnical earthquake engineering, transportation geotechnics, soil-structure interaction, geophysical investigation, geosynthetics engineering, landslide geotechnology, computational geotechnics, as well as applications of AI/ML and soft computing in geotechnical engineering.

Prof. Varenyam Achal is a tenured professor and deputy dean of Undergraduate Studies at the Guangdong Technion--Israel Institute of Technology (GTIIT), China. He holds a Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering and an M.Sc. in Biotechnology from Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, India. With a research career spanning over 15 years, Prof. Achal is internationally recognized for his pioneering contributions in environmental biotechnology, bioremediation technologies, biomineralization, and biologically-inspired construction materials.

Dr. Shiv Shankar Kumar 是印度比哈爾邦國立技術學院（National Institute of Technology Patna）土木工程系的助理教授。他於2018年在印度理工學院古瓦哈提（IIT Guwahati）獲得土木工程博士學位，研究重點為土壤在地震激勵下的動態反應，並利用循環三軸試驗進行研究。他還擁有印度理工學院古瓦哈提的土木工程碩士學位，以及比哈爾邦穆扎法爾普爾技術學院的土木工程學士學位。他的研究重點領域包括基礎工程、地震土木工程、土壤-結構互動及地基改良技術。

Dr. Kumar 擁有令人印象深刻的出版紀錄，發表了多篇期刊文章、書籍章節和會議論文，發表於知名期刊如《印度土木工程期刊》（Indian Geotechnical Journal）、《土壤動力學與地震工程》（Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering）及《國際地質工程期刊》（International Journal of Geo-engineering）。他的研究對於理解土壤在地震荷載下的行為及開發特定地點的地面反應模型做出了重要貢獻，特別是針對比哈爾邦和印度東北地區。他的專業知識涵蓋了先進的測試技術，包括循環三軸試驗、震動台實驗和表面波分析，這些技術支撐了他在地震場地反應、土壤液化及地基改良方面的研究。

Dr. Anil Kumar Sharma 是印度國立技術學院（NIT）比哈爾邦的土木工程系助理教授。他擁有印度科學研究院（Indian Institute of Science, IISc）班加羅爾的土木與環境工程博士學位，研究重點為工業副產品如F級飛灰和磨碎高爐爐渣（GGBS）在可持續土木工程改良中的應用。他於2009年在科欽科技大學（Cochin University of Science and Technology）獲得土木工程學士學位。
Dr. Sharma的研究興趣涵蓋生物土木工程、地基改良技術、回收建材、土工合成材料、邊坡穩定性及環境土木工程。他在可持續建築實踐方面做出了重要貢獻，特別是在使用環保和廢料衍生材料穩定問題土壤方面。他目前的研究還探索微生物誘導的方解石沉澱（MICP）以改善煤灰及其他地質材料。

Dr. Arindam Dey 目前是印度理工學院古瓦哈提（IIT Guwahati）土木工程系的副教授。他也是災害管理與研究中心（Center for Disaster Management and Research, CDMR）的副教授及創始成員之一。他在加爾各答的賈達夫普爾大學（Jadavpur University Kolkata）獲得工程學士學位，隨後在印度理工學院坎普爾（IIT Kanpur）獲得碩士及博士學位。在2011年加入IIT古瓦哈提之前，他曾在意大利坎波巴索的莫利塞大學（University of Molise）StreGa實驗室擔任博士後研究員。他在多個土木工程和災害管理領域積極從事研究，包括基礎工程、地震土木工程、交通土木工程、土壤-結構互動、地球物理調查、土工合成材料工程、滑坡地技術、計算土木工程，以及AI/ML和軟計算在土木工程中的應用。

Prof. Varenyam Achal 是中國廣東理工學院-以色列理工學院（Guangdong Technion--Israel Institute of Technology, GTIIT）的終身教授及本科學習副院長。他擁有環境工程博士學位及印度塔帕爾工程技術學院（Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology）的生物技術碩士學位。Prof. Achal的研究生涯超過15年，因其在環境生物技術、生物修復技術、生物礦化及生物啟發建材方面的開創性貢獻而享有國際聲譽。