Dr. Dhruvesh Patel is currently working as an associate professor of civil engineering department, School of Technology, Pandit Deendayal Energy University (PDEU), India. His major area of research interests include flood risk assessment and management, flood hazard mapping, flood mitigation and planning of water resources management. He has published 21 research papers in international peer-review high impact factor journals and 50 in national/international conferences. He is a reviewer for journals of national and international repute. 

Dr. Byungmin Kim is currently working as an associate professor of School of Urban and Environmental Engineering at UNIST, South Korea. Dr. Kim obtained his B.S. (2007) from Hanyang University, South Korea and M.S. (2009) and Ph.D. (2012) from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. His current research interests include various research topics such as seismic hazard analysis, site characterization, ground motion amplification, landslide, liquefaction, seismic risk assessment; etc. He has published over 45 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers.

Prof. Dawei Han is professor of hydroinformatics from Department of Civil Engineering, the University of Bristol, UK. He obtained Ph.D. (1991), M.Sc. (1984) and B.Eng. (1982). His research interest includes hydrological modelling, real-time flood forecasting, flood risk assessment and management, climate change impact, remote sensing and geographic information system, natural hazards, etc. He has carried out various projects on weather radar rainfall and numerical weather prediction to aid flood risk assessment, downscaling of global circulation model for climate change, multi-natural hazards, etc. He has published over 300 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers.