Krishanu (Kris) is currently a Senior Lecturer in Civil Engineering at the University of Waikato (UOW). He obtained his PhD in Civil Engineering from the University of Auckland and masters in Earthquake Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (IIT Roorkee). Before joining the UoW, he was a Lecturer at the University of Auckland. After the completion of his master's degree, Kris spent one year working for Geodata Spa, one of the world's leading engineering firms for underground structures. During this time, he specialized in tunnel portal design, steel construction, seismic design of steel structures, and the designing of underground structures.