Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference in Ocean Engineering (ICOE2018): Volume 1

Dr. K. Murali is a Professor at the Department of Ocean Engineering, IIT Madras. He has authored about 100 publications in International Conferences and journals, and is the recipient of the Endeavour Research Fellowship from the Australian government. He received a major research grant from ISRO for developing coastal research models after the Indian Ocean Tsunami. His field of research specialization is computational hydrodynamics. He has more than 20 years of consultancy experience in coastal and port engineering. He has completed 50 coastal protection design works in and around India.

Dr. V. Sriram is an Associate Professor at the Department of Ocean Engineering, IIT Madras. He received the prestigious Newton International Fellowship (from the Royal Society, UK) in 2009, Alexander Von Humboldt Fellowship (from AvH foundation, Germany) in 2011, DST INSPIRE Faculty award (from DST), and RJ Garde Research award (from Indian Society of Hydraulics). He is aVisiting Researcher at City University of London and Visiting Professor at Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany. He has published more than 60 papers in international journals and conferences. His research work focuses on computational hydrodynamics. He has developed state-of-the-art numerical models applied to ocean engineering, particularly coastal and offshore engineering.

Dr. Abdus Samad is an Associate Professor at the Department of Ocean Engineering, IIT Madras, working in the areas of marine energy, fluid mechanics and optimization. He has received several awards from various bodies, has published more than 100 articles in a number of journals and conferences and has filed several patents. He was Knowledge Transfer Associate in the UK from 2008 to 2010, and was a Brainpool invited scientist in South Korea during his sabbatical leave in 2016.

Dr. Nilanjan Saha is an Associate Professor at the Department of Ocean Engineering, IIT Madras. He has published 20 papers in international journals and is the recipient of the IEI Young Engineer Award – Marine 2013 from the Institution of Engineers, India; Young Researcher Award – 2013 from Ministry of Earth Sciences; and Hari Om Ashram Prerit Research Award. His interests include stochastic analysis of marine structures. He is currently applying his knowledge in offshore renewable energy with an emphasis on extremes.