Proceedings of the 9th National Conference on Wind Engineering

Prof. Sabareesh Geetha Rajasekharan is an associate professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, BITS-Pilani, Hyderabad Campus. He completed his Ph.D. and post-doctoral studies in the field of Wind Engineering at Tokyo Polytechnic University, Japan. He has to his credit more than 80 publications in international journals/conferences. He has ongoing/completed multiple projects to the tune of 2.2 crore funded by DST/DRDO/other agencies. Under him, 4 Ph.D. students have graduated and are presently guiding 3 students. His fields of interest are in Wind Engineering, Fluid Structure Interaction, Vibrations, Condition Monitoring, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. He is also a recipient of Best Master's Thesis Award in the field of wind engineering constituted by Indian Society of Wind Engineering.

Prof. S. Arunachalam, till recently, worked as the director, Wind Engineering Application Centre, Jaypee University of Engineering & Technology, Guna, in M.P., since2013. Earlier, he has worked as a chief scientist and the head, Wind Engineering Laboratory at CSIR-SERC, Chennai, for about 30 years. He obtained his B.E. (Civil) from Madras University and M.S. (Civil) and Ph.D. from IIT, Madras, and from IISc, Bangalore, respectively. His fields of research interest include wind effects on buildings and structures, boundary layer wind tunnel testing and cyclone disaster mitigation. He is a recipient of CSIR-DAAD and CSIR-UNDP Fellowships. He has published over 105 research papers in journals and conferences and about 200 technical and consultancy reports. He is a fellow of Indian National Academy of Engineering and Institution of Engineers (India). As a team member, he has contributed to Indian Standards on wind loads.

Dr. P. Harikrishna is currently a chief scientist and the head of Wind Engineering Laboratory, CSIR-Structural Engineering Research Centre (CSIR-SERC), Chennai. He obtained his B.E. (Civil Engineering) from Andhra University,Waltair, M.E. (Structural Engg.) from Anna University, Chennai, and Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Technology-Madras, Chennai. His major areas of research interests include wind engineering, wind effects on tall buildings, lattice towers, cooling towers, chimneys and bridge decks, computational fluid dynamics (CFD), application of data mining/ML algorithms and small wind turbines. He has published 18 papers in SCI Journals and 11 papers in reputed national journals. Dr. Harikrishna received UNDP Fellowship in 1994, A.S. ARYA-UOR Disaster Prevention Award in 2000, Dr. Jai Krishna Medal in 2001, Dr. M. Ramaiah Award in 2004 and Springer Best Paper Award in 2016. Currently, he is a member of various BIS codal committees relevant to wind loads.