Srinivasan Gopalakrishnan received his Ph.D from School of Aeronautics and Astronautics from Purdue University, USA in December 1992. In November 1997, he joined the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, where currently he is a Senior Professor. His main areas of interest are Wave Propagation in complex media, Computational Material Science, Computational Mechanics, Smart Structures, Structural Health Monitoring, MEMS and Nano Composite Structures.Ramesh Babu Jangala is a post-doctoral researcher in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Vanderbilt University with a Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, and a Master’s degree in Aerospace Structural Engineering from IIT Kanpur. His research during his Ph.D. focused on corrosion modeling and fatigue life prediction in metallic structures.