Dr. Ramesh Goel is a Professor and Graduate Director in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at the University of Utah, USA. He obtained his B.S. and M.S. in Civil Engineering from Jadavpur University, India, in 1994 and 1996, respectively, and his Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from the University of South Carolina in 2003. He completed his post-doctoral studies at the University of Wisconsin in 2005. He joined the University of Utah in January 2006 as an Assistant Professor and became a Professor in July 2017. Dr. Goel researches the interface of process engineering, ecosystem sustainability, and environmental microbiology, explicitly focusing on nutrient management in municipal wastewater treatment, innovations in activated sludge processes, harmful algal blooms, virology, and computer bioinformatics. His research projects have been funded by the United States National Science Foundation, USEPA, and the US Department of Defense.