Mr. Saleh Behbahani
Ph.D, Purdue University

Mr. Saleh Behbahani has B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Mining Engineering. He is currently doing his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering at Purdue University under supervision of Dr. Tom Iseley. Right after getting his B.Sc.  degree, he was hired by the Perlite Construction Co. and worked as supervisor on the Tohid Tunnel project which is one of the major tunneling projects in Tehran using sequential excavation method (SEM).  Before joining Purdue, he was assisting Dr. Iseley as a teaching assistant and research assistant at the Trenchless Technology Center (TTC), Louisiana Tech University (LA Tech) for about 7 years. While working at the TTC, he had been involved with numerous research projects and workshops on pipeline inspection, pipeline condition assessment, pipeline rehabilitation, cured-in-place pipe (CIPP), underground asset management, utility investigation, assessment of hydrocarbon exposure in sewer systems and rehabilitation options, etc. Mr. Behbahani is the coordinator of the TTC Specialty School programs including the Auger Boring School and the ASCE’s Utility Engineering and Surveying Institute (UESI) Utility Investigation School (UIS). Since Mr. Behbahani came to the USA, he has assisted Dr. Iseley with the development of online and classroom courses for the Certification of Training in Asset Management (CTAM) program for the Buried Asset Management Institute-International (BAMI-I) where he serves as the president of the non-profit association. Mr. Behbahani is the manager of CTAM Courses. CTAM program has 4 courses taken by individuals from 15 countries. CTAM Courses benefit Professional Engineers with years of experience in management of underground asset infrastructure as well as municipalities. Mr. Behbahani was honored to receive the Rapid Excavation & Tunneling Conference (RETC) Student Attendance Scholarship in 2017 and 2019, and the Underground Construction Association of the Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration (UCA of SME) Executive Committee Scholarship in 2018. Mr. Behbahani has received the Associate Water Asset Manager (AWAM) Certificate from the BAMI-I (License 0003). Furthermore, he has been able to maintain his GPA 4.0 out of 4.0 in the Ph.D. program. Mr. Behbahani has had several articles published in nationally/internationally recognized magazines and journals. 

Ge Yanchao
Chief Engineer, Henan Zhongtuo Petroleum Engineering&Technology Co., Ltd.

Muhammad Farid Ghazali
Engineer/Researcher, University of Petroleum and Technology, Malaysia

-The research concerns about the technology uses a novel technique of measuring strains and movements on slopes in a near continuous manner using fibre optic distributed sensor known as Brillouin Optical Time-Domain Analysis (BOTDA).

Research Officer, UNIVERSITY TEKNOLOGI PETRONAS (01 May 2017 -Now)