Dr. Surender Singh

Dr. Surender Singh is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, specialization of Transportation Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras), Chennai, India. He completed his Ph.D. at Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India, in 2018, where he worked extensively on the valorization of Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement (RAP: organic waste from bituminous/asphalt pavements) for Cement Concrete Pavement application. His dissertation on RAP for Sustainable Concrete Pavements had received the prestigious Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) Innovative Project National Award in 2019. Surender obtained his Bachelors in Civil Engineering from State Government College, DCRUST Murthal, India in 2013 and went to pursue M.Tech in Transportation Engineering at the National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra, India (2013-2015). His Master’s dissertation topic was related to the design of Cement Concrete Pavements, the findings of which also earned the prestigious Indian Roads Congress (IRC) Bihar P.W.D. National Medal in 2017. Presently, Surender is working on different aspects of Concrete Pavements such as Valorization of Recycled Materials, Design & Monitoring of Concrete Pavements, Roller Compacted Concrete, and Rural Roads. In total, he has published more than 25 dedicated scientific articles on sustainable cement concrete mixes in various international Science Citation Indexed journals. Besides, Surender is an executive board member in Indian Concrete Institute (ICI) Chennai and is currently serving as the guest associate editor for the international journal of Frontiers in the Built Environment. Currently, he is a member of RILEM’s first-ever Youth Council (representing South Asian counties) and also holding the Vice-Chair position for the same.