Prof. Krishna R. Reddy

Dr. Krishna Reddy is Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Director of the Sustainable Engineering Research and Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering laboratories at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC), USA. He is. Dr. Reddy received PhD in Civil Engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago. He received gold medals for being first in both BS (Civil Engineering) at the Osmania University, India, and MS (Civil Engineering) at the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee. His research expertise includes waste management, landfill design, contaminated site remediation, and sustainable and resilient engineering. Dr. Reddy published four books, including two well-known textbooks: (1) Geoenvironmental Engineering: Site Remediation, Waste Containment, and Emerging Waste Management Technologies, and (2) Sustainable Engineering: Drivers, Metrics, Tools, and Applications. He is also the author of 310 journal papers, 35 edited books/conference proceedings, 27 book chapters, and 243 full conference papers (with an h-index of 75 with over 20,000 citations). He received several awards for excellence in research and teaching, including the Fulbright US Scholar Award, the ASCE Wesley W. Horner Award, the ASTM Hogentogler Award, the UIC Distinguished Researcher Award, the University of Illinois Scholar Award, and the University of Illinois Award for Excellence in Teaching. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers. For more information, visit: https://gagel.lab.uic.edu/

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Chitosan-Modified Biochar Composite Barriers for Environmental Containment