General news

August 28, 2011

NCE welcomes Dr. Krishna P. Biligiri as an Assistant Director for Sustainable Paving Materials

krishna Dr. Krishna P. Biligiri, Research Scientist with the ASU’s School of Sustainable Engineering & the Built Environment joins the NCE as the Assistant Director. Krishna obtained a doctoral degree in Civil & Environmental Engineering from ASU in 2008. Dr. Biligiri’s experience is in pavement materials and tire / pavement noise. He has been involved in several multi-million dollar national and international studies that focused on fundamental materials properties and sustainable innovative solutions/programs for adaptation and mitigation strategies to enhance quality of life initiatives. For the past two years, Krishna has been a leading researcher and Co-Investigator from ASU on a collaborative research project with VTI-Swedish National Road & Transport Research Institute in Sweden. He is involved as a major team player in a multi-year multi-million Euros European Union directive project PERSUADE. He is a member of a few standing committees of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) of the National Academies, and the American Society for Testing & Materials (ASTM) International. He has given many presentations in several countries, including, USA, Sweden, Germany, Portugal, Poland, Belgium, India, and China.

The NCE welcomes Dr. Krishna P. Biligiri as the new Assistant Director to help provide leadership and direction to the center’s research activities.