Conference Chairs
Joe Hughes, Ph.D., P.E., DEE
Chairman Dept. of Civil & Environmental
Georgia Institute of Technology Engineering
Joseph B. Hughes is Professor and Chair of the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Prior to his employment at Georgia Tech, he held the rank of Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Department Chair at Rice University in Houston, Texas. Current additional appointments include Associate Director for Research of the EPA’s South and Southwest Region Hazardous Substances Research Center, Chair of the Science Advisory Board of the EPA’s West Coast Hazardous Substances Research Center, member of the U.S. EPA standing science advisory committee on Environmental Engineering and holds an adjunct faculty appointment at Nankai University in Tianjin, China were he is co-directing graduate students and conducting lectures.
Dr. Hughes received his Ph.D. and M.S. degrees from the University of Iowa in Civil and Environmental Engineering and a B.A. from Cornell College in Chemistry.
Suthan Suthersan, Ph.D., P.E.
Executive Vice President & Chief Technical Officer
ARCADIS-US
Suthan S. Suthersan, Ph.D., P.E., Executive Vice President and Chief Technical Officer of the ARCADIS Environment division, has been called “one of the most knowledgeable, energetic and creative people in the remediation field today.” He is a pioneer of in situ remediation and has developed a national reputation for his ability to gain stakeholder acceptance for innovative remediation technologies by unraveling and clearly articulating the concepts associated with new applications.
Suthan has a B.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of Sri Lanka and Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from the University of Toronto and has more than 25 years of experience. His groundbreaking book, Remediation Engineering, was published in 1996 and set the standard for the in situ remediation of contaminated soil and groundwater. He also authored two additional books, Natural and Enhanced Remediation Systems and In Situ Remediation Engineering, and has been awarded eight patents for remediation technology applications. His column, “Advances in In Situ Remediation,” is regularly featured in Ground Water Monitoring and Remediation, the journal of the National Ground Water Association.
