Dr. P. L. P. Wasantha received a BSc in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of Ruhuna, Sri Lanka, in 2010, and a PhD in Geomechanics from Monash University in Australia, in 2014. He is an Associate Professor of Geotechnical Engineering at the Institute for Sustainable Industries & Liveable Cities at Victoria University (VU). Before joining Victoria University, he held research positions at various institutions, including the Technical University Bergakademie Freiberg (Germany) in 2015-2016, University of Oxford (United Kingdom) in 2016-2017, and Monash University (Australia) in 2013-2015. His current research interests include modeling hydraulic fracture propagation and induced seismicity, ground deformation due to tunneling in soft and hard rocks, the shear behavior of rock joints, the effect of soil reactivity on lightweight structures, and the use of ANN in geotechnical engineering.