PSM Professor and Scientia Professor Khalili has about 30 years of experience in geotechnical engineering both as a consultant and as an academic/researcher. Prior to joining The University of New South Wales in 1993, he was responsible for managing the geotechnical group in the Chicago Office of the consulting firm Dames & Moore. He is currently the President of the Australian Association for Computational Mechanics (AACM), Fellow of Institution of Engineers Australia, Fellow of Australian Geomechanics Society, and Fellow of Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE). His research interests lie primarily in the areas of mechanics of unsaturated soils, soil plasticity, and mechanics of multi phase multi porous media. He is the recipient of many prestigious international awards including: Chandra Desai Medal from International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics (IACMAG) in 2014, and Valliappan Medal from International Association for Computational Mechanics (IACM) in 2016.