Mr Kshitij Gaur is pursuing his PhD in the Department of Civil Engineering at Delhi Technological University (DTU), Delhi, India, enrolled in 2021. His doctoral research focuses on the performance of geosynthetic-reinforced unpaved roads for sustainable and cost-effective infrastructure development. He holds an M.Tech in Geotechnical Engineering (2021) from DTU and a B.Tech in Civil Engineering (2018) from Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University. His research interests include geosynthetics, unpaved road behaviour, soil reinforcement, and ground improvement techniques. Mr Gaur has a strong academic record and is actively involved in scholarly activities related to transportation geotechnics and sustainable pavement design.

Prof. Ashutosh Trivedi is a professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at Delhi Technological University (DTU), Delhi, India. He has held various academic leadership roles, including Dean of Industrial R&D (2014–2021), Founding Director of the DTU Innovation and Incubation Foundation (2016–2021), and Head of Civil Engineering at both DTU and the University of Delhi. His areas of interest include civil and geotechnical engineering, rock mechanics, and soil dynamics. He serves on the editorial boards of Acta Geotechnica and the International Journal of Geosynthetics and Ground Engineering. He has authored several journal articles and book chapters, with an h-index of 15 and an i10-index of 20.

Dr. Sanjay Kumar Shukla is the Civil Engineering Discipline Coordinator at Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia, and Founding Leader of its Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering Research Group. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Geosynthetics and Ground Engineering and a distinguished fellow of ASCE and Engineers Australia. His research interests include geosynthetics, ground improvement, slope stability, and environmental geotechnics. He is among the top 0.5% of scientists globally, having authored 28 books and 335+ publications, with an h-index of 47 and an i10-index of 151. His innovations, including Shukla’s wraparound technique and generalised seismic thrust models, are widely adopted in engineering practice.