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PshtIwAn shAkor is a Casual Staff and a Ph.D. candidate at the School of Civil and
Environmental Engineering, University of Technology Sydney, Australia. His research interests include
mechanics of cementitious material, durability of concrete, studies on the early age of concrete, analysis of
cementitious reaction and additive manufacturing technology for construction applications. His research has
led to the National Award in 2017 from Concrete Institute of Australia for the 3D printing concrete under
supervision of Professor Jay Sanjayan.

shAMI nEJADI is an Associate Professor at the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
University of Technology Sydney. He received his Ph.D. degree in structural engineering from the University
of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, in 2005. His research interests include serviceability, creep, shrinkage,
durability, and service life of concrete and prestressed concrete structures. Winner of ARC and Industry
linkage research founds. Member of the Institution of Engineers Australia (CPEng), Concrete Institute of
Australia (CIA) and American Concrete Institute (ACI). Invited speaker in the areas of Creep and Shrinkage of
concrete and ANFIS. He has actively participated in upgrading of the Australian Standards (AS3600-2009).

gAvIn PAUl is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering and a
Core Member at the Centre for Autonomous Systems. He received his Ph.D. degree from the University
of Technology, Sydney, Australia. His research interest include robotics, computer vision and additive
manufacturing for construction applications.

JAy sAnJAyAn is currently the Director of Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Digital Construction
and Professor of Concrete Structures at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia. Jay has
extensively published in the areas of 3D Concrete Printing, Low Carbon Concretes including Geopolymer
Concrete and the use of Phase Change Materials in buildings, including a book on the topic of 3D Concrete
Printing published in 2019. Jay is an Honorary Member of the Concrete Institute of Australia, Honorary 2015
President of RILEM and a Fellow of the Engineers Australia. Jay has published extensively in these topics with
his publications receiving 9400+ citations with an H-index of 46 in Google Scholar.

fArhAD AslAnI is the Director of the Materials and Structures Innovation Group in the School
of Engineering at The University of Western Australia. Dr. Aslani also holds an adjunct Associate Professor
position in Structural and Concrete Engineering in the School of Engineering at Edith Cowan University,
Australia. His research interests include smart and sustainable construction materials, advanced concrete
technology and additive manufacturing of geopolymer composites. Dr. Aslani research has led to the National
Engineering Bursary Award in 2015 from Concrete Institute of Australia for the best national research on self-
compacting concrete.

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