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Ram Pendyala is a professor in the Civil, Environmental and Sustainable Engineering program of the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, one of ASU鈥檚 Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering.

Samuel Ariaratnam is a nationally recognized expert in trenchless technology, which uses a variety of surface-monitored, underground excavation tools to replace and install utility lines for oil, natural gas, water, sewer, electrical, and telecommunications and fiber optics without disrupting neighborhoods, roadways, railways, riverbeds and ecologically sensitive areas.  

Ariaratnam, a registered professional engineer in Arizona and Ontario, Canada, served on the North American Society for Trenchless Technology Board of Directors from 2001-2006.  Currently, he serves as the immediate past chairman of the International Society for Trenchless Technology, and recently was appointed to the Executive Committee of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Pipelines Division. He is a co-author of the "Horizontal Directional Drilling Good Practices Guidelines" and the "Pipe Bursting Good Practices." 

Ariaratnam is a professor and Beavers-Ames Chair in Heavy Construction in the ASU鈥檚 School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment. He also serves as Chair of the Construction Engineering Program. 

He co-authored the Maricopa Association of Government鈥檚 public works specifications for installing underground utilities in 2016.

Klaus Lackner鈥檚 work focuses on closing the carbon cycle by capturing carbon dioxide from the air through the use of 鈥渕echanical trees.鈥� His device is currently being commercialized. 

Lackner鈥檚 other research interests include carbon sequestration, carbon foot-printing, innovative energy and infrastructure systems and their scaling properties, the role of automation, robotics and mass-manufacturing in downscaling infrastructure systems, and energy and environmental policy. 

Lackner, director of ASU鈥檚 Center for Negative Carbon Emissions, was the first person (in 1999) to suggest artificial capture of carbon dioxide from air as a way of reducing atmospheric carbon and lessening global warming.

Lackner is a professor at the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment of the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at ASU. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and he was recognized for contributing to the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for the IPCC. His interest in self-replicating machine systems has been recognized by Discover Magazine as one of seven ideas that could change the world. 

Luis Quintero (PhD in Economics and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University) is an assistant professor at the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School. His work focuses on urban and real estate economics, especially related to housing markets, agglomeration economies and policy-related issues like housing affordability. He also does research on determinants of growth, decline, and sustainability of cities in developed and developing economies. 

At JHU Carey Business School he teaches courses on infrastructure development of sustainable cities, real estate and infrastructure finance, and microeconomics. He works on policy analysis for the 21st Century Cities Initiative at JHU and is part of the core faculty at the Hopkins Business of Health Initiative. He also co-directs the Latin American and the Caribbean Economics Association (LACEA) urban economics network.

Luis鈥檚 work has been published in leading economic journals, and his work has been quoted in the media, including NPR, Fox, The Economist, Baltimore Magazine, The Washington Post, the LA Times, and CNN.

Originally from New Hampshire, Stephanie Pilkington is a civil engineer by training, receiving her Ph.D. and M.S. from Colorado State University and B.S. from Virginia Tech, and is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She has previously worked for the U.S. Air Force as an Environmental Restoration Program Manager (civilian). Her core research interests relate to meteorological natural hazards and how they affect communities. Her expertise is in community resilience to natural hazards and modeling hazard impact and recovery on a systems level. She has created multiple models using machine learning and artificial neural networks. Pilkington has also participated in damage surveys and is an avid storm chaser.