He received his doctorate in civil engineering from the University of Oklahoma and master’s degree in civil engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. He has professional and research experience in dealing with difficult soils/rocks, beneficial use of recycled materials/industrial by-products in pavements, characterization of soils/pavement materials, mechanistic pavement design, pavement geotechnics, pavement instrumentation, nondestructive pavement evaluation, and numerical modeling of geo-materials. He is a registered Professional Engineer in the state of Michigan. Dr. Solanki continues to teach courses in the area of construction materials, design of structures and geotechnical engineering at Illinois State University.