Srinivasan Chandrasekaranis a Professor of the Department of Ocean Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India. He has over 24 years of teaching, research, and industrial experience, during which he has supervised many sponsored research projects and offshore consultancy assignment both in India and abroad. He has also been a Visiting Fellow at the University of Naples Federico II, Italy (MiUR Fellow) during which time he conducted research on advanced nonlinear modeling and analysis of structures under different environmental loads with experimental verifications. He has published about 130 research papers in international journals and refereed conferences organized by professional societies around the world. He has also authored textbooks, which are quite popular among graduate students in civil and ocean engineering. He is a member of many national and international professional bodies and delivered many invited lectures and keynote addresses at international conferences, workshops, and seminars organized in India and abroad. Arvind Kumar Jainhas been a Professor of Structural Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi for the past 30 years, and has also served as former Head of the Civil Engineering department. He is an active consultant in the infrastructure industry.

He has authored several papers published in international journals of high impact factor. ational conferences, workshops, and seminars organized in India and abroad. Arvind Kumar Jainhas been a Professor of Structural Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi for the past 30 years, and has also served as former Head of the Civil Engineering department. He is an active consultant in the infrastructure industry. He has authored several papers published in international journals of high impact factor.