Education

• PhD in Civil Engineering, University of California, Davis
• MS in Civil Engineering, University of California, Davis
• BSC in Civil Engineering, University of Sri Lanka

Areas of Research

Mechanics of Geo-environmental Engineering, Engineering Properties of Contaminated Soils, Centrifugal Modeling of Contaminant Transport, Micro-mechanics, Reuse of Contaminated Soils, Ultrasound Research, Underground Infrastructure Initiative

Selected Publications

"Centrifuge Modeling of LNAPLs Transport in Unsaturated Soils,"  ASCE Journal of Geotechnical and Geo-environmental Engineering, Vol. 130 #5, pp. 535-540, May 2004, Co-authors: Irene Lo and Liming Hu

"Estimation of Diffusion Coefficient of Chromium in Colloidal Silica using an Optical Method," Environmental Science and Technology Journal, Volume 38, Issue 14, Pages 3950-3957, July 2004, co-author: Netnapid Tantemsapya

"Multimedia Model for Analysis of Contaminant Releases in the Passaic River Watershed," ASCE Practice Periodical of Hazardous, Toxic, and Radioactive Waste Management, Vol. 8, #4, pp 220-227, October 2004,Co-authors: L. Coulibaly and M. E. Labib

"Strategies to Mitigate Salt Runoff from Salt Storage and Salt Truck Maintenance Facilities," ASCE Practice Periodical of Hazardous, Toxic, and Radioactive Waste Management, Vol. 8, #4, pp 247-252, October 2004, Co-authors: T. Marhaba and P. Ratnaweera

"NJTxtr - A Computer Program based on LASER to Monitor Asphalt Segregation," ASCE Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, Volume 130, Issue 6, December 2004, co-authors: Geoffrey M Rowe, Andris Jumikis, Mark J Sharrock, Nishantha Bandara and Chamil H Hettiarachchi

"Micro-mechanical Simulations of Soils using Massively Parallel Supercomputers," Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, Volume 2, Issue 3, December 2004, Pages 57-63, Co-author: David Washington.