Dr. Navneet Garg is a Program Manager in Airport Technology R&D Branch at the FAA’s William J. Hughes Technical Center in Atlantic City, New Jersey, and manages projects on Full-Scale Accelerated Pavement Testing, Field Instrumentation and Testing, and Pavement Materials. Navneet earned his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1997, M.S. in Civil Engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, in 1993, and B.E in Civil Engineering from Karnataka Regional Engineering College (now National Institute of Technology), Suratkal, India, in 1990.
He has been actively involved in airport pavement research at the FAA’s National Airport Pavement Test Facility since 1998. He conceptualized and developed the FAA’s National Airport Pavement & Materials Research Center (NAPMRC) - a nine-million-dollar state-of-the-art research facility. He led the congressionally (US Congress) mandated study on "Operational Life of Airport Pavements".
Dr. Garg has authored several FAA technical reports, and over one hundred research papers for various peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings. He teaches airport pavement design and evaluation workshops for ICAO, Asphalt Institute, Airport Consultants Council, and has been a member of several master’s and doctoral degree student’s thesis committees. In addition, he has mentored High School students under STEM program and summer interns at FAA WJHTC, and ACRP Student Grant recipients.
He is the winner of the “2018 T&DI Airfield Pavements Practitioner of the Year” award given by American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), and the “2004 Engineer of the Year” award given by Southern New Jersey Professional Societies (American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics AIAA, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers IEEE, and IEEE Computer Society). He is a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), current Chair of ASCE Airfield Pavements Committee, on Board of Directors of International Society for Asphalt Pavements (ISAP), and member of the TRB Committees on Geotechnical Instrumentation & Modelling (AKG60), and Aggregates (AKM80), and Associate Editor of International Journal of Pavement Engineering (IJPE). He is one of the founding members of non-profit organization EduContests (educontests.org), and volunteers for North South Foundation (northsouth.org).