Prof. Shashi Nambisan heads UNLV's Transportation Research Center, an interdisciplinary educational and outreach hub housed within the College of Engineering where Nambisan has also served as a civil engineering professor for nearly two decades. His research interests include transportation safety and risk analysis, data analytics and data-enabled decision support tools, transportation planning and infrastructure management, emerging technologies, and air transportation.

With over 30 years of experience in developing research enterprises, Nambisan has led efforts on more than 170 projects, grants, and gifts to develop innovative, technology-based strategies that enhance transportation safety, capacity, and travel time reliability. His projects have been funded by various federal, state, and local agencies, the private sector, and not-for-profit organizations. Federal sponsors include the U.S. Departments of Transportation and Energy, the National Science Foundation, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In 2018 and 2020, he led efforts to develop two large nationally competitive proposals funded by the U.S. Department of Transportation's Transportation and Congestion Management Technologies Deployment program to address a broad range of topics such as safety, data analytics, and policy support.

Nambisan strives to partner with public and private-sector leaders, advocacy groups, professional organizations, and other stakeholders on identifying transportation and infrastructure challenges and needs, and developing potential solutions for the same. For example, his scientific and technical work formed the basis for several local, regional, and national policies and practices such as alternatives for infrastructure development, guidelines and standards for transportation system design and operations, and risk mitigation for hazardous materials routing. He was recently appointed to the Nevada Advisory Committee on Traffic Safety, and in 2019 he spearheaded a study that prompted Alabama lawmakers to pass a funding package that will generate about $320 million in revenues annually for transportation investments.

Nambisan's services have been recognized by former Nevada Gov. Jim Gibbons, who proclaimed January 31, 2007, as Professor Shashi Nambisan Day. Nambisan was also awarded the Harry Reid Silver State Research award in 2005. Students he advised and mentored serve in professional leadership roles across the U.S. and internationally.

Prof. Kusam Sudhakar Reddy obtained his B.E. in Civil Engineering from Malaviya Regional Institute of Technology, Jaipur (now NIT Jaipur) in 1983, followed by an M.Tech in Highway and Traffic Engineering from IIT Kharagpur in 1985. He earned his Ph.D. in 1993 from IIT Kharagpur, specializing in the analytical design of flexible pavements. Prof. Kusam Sudhakar Reddy has been a faculty member in the Department of Civil Engineering at IIT Kharagpur since 1994 and has held several leadership roles, including Head of the Department of Civil Engineering, Head of the Ranbir and Chitra Gupta School of Infrastructure Design and Management, and Head of the Vinod Gupta School of Management for one year.

An accomplished academician and researcher, he has authored approximately 190 research papers in international and national journals and proceedings and has guided 20 Ph.D. students to completion. He has handled significant research and consultancy projects sponsored by organizations such as the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), the Ministry of Road Transport, and other prominent agencies. He has been honored with prestigious awards, including Indian Roads Congress medals, commendation certificates, and the Jawaharlal Nehru Birth Centenary Award of the Indian Roads Congress. He is actively involved as a member/convener of various committees under the Indian Roads Congress, the National Rural Roads Development Agency, and other organizations. His contributions have significantly advanced the fields of civil engineering, infrastructure design, and transportation research in India.

Mr. R K Bansal holds a degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Bombay (1993 batch) and is currently heading the Roads, Bridges & Formations SBG, Transportation Infrastructure IC, L&T Construction. He has completed his Post Graduate Executive Management Programme from SP Jain Institute of Management & Research (2003) and has further done an Advanced Management Programme from Columbia University, U.S

Mr. Bansal started his career in L&T as a Graduate Engineering Trainee (GET) in the year 1993 when the Roads business was in its growing stages. He has more than 30 years of experience predominantly in the Roads, Bridges & Airports.

Mr. Bansal with his expertise in projects execution, construction planning, project management, business development, etc. has served the company in construction of several fast-track projects, number of which were completed in record time. He was part of the team which executed the first Modern Road Project- Sambalpur Rourkela. He spearheaded the Project Planning of L&T’s first Expressway- Mumbai Pune Expressway and brought laurels to the company. During his tenure, as a Project Manager, he was instrumental in completing some of the prestigious projects - Surat Manor Road Project, Satara Kolhapur Road Project and Hyderabad Airport Project.

Under his stewardship, 2 new world records have been created:

1. Highest quantity (51,896 MT) of Bituminous Concrete laid in 100 hours
2. Longest length (112.5 Km) of Bituminous Concrete laid in 100 hours