Biographical note

Dr Srinivasan Chandrasekaran is a Professor with Higher Academic Grade at the Department of Ocean Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM). He specializes in offshore structural engineering focused on dynamic analysis under special loads, including fire and explosion. With over 30 years of academic and research experience, he has contributed significantly to seismic evaluation, risk assessment, and response control of offshore and civil structures. He has authored 23 textbooks and published 105 journal papers in peer-reviewed journals. His research has led to technology transfers and 16 patents, including wave energy converters and functionally graded materials. Dr Pradeepa is a post-doctoral equivalent fellow at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM), specializing in structural and ocean engineering. She earned her PhD in Ocean Engineering from IIT Madras, following a Master of Engineering in Structural Engineering and a Bachelor of Engineering in Civil Engineering. She has submitted three manuscripts, and has presented her research at international conferences. With extensive teaching and research experience, she has worked as a Project Assistant (Research) at the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) Structural Engineering Research Lab, Chennai, India (Dec 2018 – Mar 2020).