Dilan Robert is an associate professor and the Head of the Department of Civil & Infrastructure Engineering at RMIT University. He obtained his B.Sc. Engineering Honours (1st Class and Gold Medallist) from the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka in 2005 and a Ph.D. in Engineering from the University of Cambridge, UK, in 2011. Prior to his role at RMIT, he worked for 2 years as a Geotechnical Engineer in the UK and 2 years as a Research Fellow at Monash University, Australia. He is also the Director of Research and Education at the Centre for Pavement Excellence Asia Pacific Ltd and a Fellow of the Australia-India Strategic Research Fund (AISRF). His research areas include pipelines, road pavements, soil stabilization, waste recycling, soil-structure interaction analysis, offshore geotechnics, unsaturated soils, constitutive modelling of soil and concrete, and corrosion assessment of buried metals.