Dr Alfrendo Satyanaga currently working as Associate Professor in Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan. He obtained his PhD degree in Geotechnical Engineering from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and MSc degree in Geotechnical Engineering from Newcastle University, United Kingdom and BEng degree in Civil Engineering from Indonesia. Dr Satyanaga has published over 100 technical publications. He has 25 years of working experience in consulting, teaching and research in civil engineering. He previously worked as postdoctoral Senior Research Fellow in School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Nanyang Technological University. He was also adjunct lecturer in Herriot-Watt university, United Kingdom. He also served as a consultant on various projects to several engineering firms in Singapore, Australia and Indonesia. He is Professional Engineering of Indonesia. He is also a member of Civil Engineering Society of Singapore, Indonesia, UK and USA. Dr Alfrendo has conducted extensive research on unsaturated soil mechanics to solve geotechnical problems against the effect of climate change. For his great achievement, Minister for National Development’s Singapore has awarded Special Awards in 2017 for Stability Assessment of slopes. He is a member of the TC106 d TC208 Committee of International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE) on Unsaturated Soils and Slope Stability, respectively.