Prof. Gopalakrishnan received his Ph.D from School of Aeronautics and Astronautics from Purdue University, USA in the year December 1992and in the year 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. Prof. Gopalakrishnan has extensively published his work on many top-rated international journals. He has a total of 238 international journal papers, 8 graduate level textbooks, two undergraduate books, 13 book chapters, and 160 international conference papers. He has an h-index of 54 in Google scholar with nearly 10300 citations, which is highest in India for any researchers in Aerospace domain. Prof. Gopalakrishnan is the highly cited Aerospace researchers in India. His notable contribution is in popularizing Spectral Finite Element as an analysis tool for wave propagation in complex media and wave propagation-based modeling tool for Structural Health Monitoring. In the years 2020, 2021 and 2022, he made it to the list of top 2% of scientists in the world published by Stanford University, USA. Prof. Gopalakrishnan was the head of the Aerospace Project assessment and Review Committee of The National Programme of Micro and Smart Systems (NPMASS), DRDO, Government of India, where he was responsible for delivering many micro devices required for many aircraft/spacecraft and missile platform of the country. He was also a member of the Structures panel of the Aeronautical Research & Development Board, Government of India, and the President of Institute for Smart Structures and Systems. He was the member of NAL Research Council between 2013-2015. He has attracted research funding to the tune of 10 Million US dollars from top Aerospace Companies, which include Being Aircraft Company, Pratt & Whitney Corporation, USA, Office of Naval research, USA, Air force office for Advanced Research, Tokyo, and the Aeronautical Research and Development Board. He has guided 28 Ph.D’s, 7M.Tech (Research) and 23 M.E students.Dr. 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. His Ph.D. work was supported by notable collaborations, including Pratt & Whitney and The University of Manchester, under initiativessuch as DST/INT/UK/P-124/2016. His research centered on stress-assisted pitting corrosion and crack growth behavior in both room and high-temperature environments. His work also encompasses aerospace structural analysis, solid mechanics, composite materials, and dynamics and vibrations. Through his industrial collaborations and academic projects, Dr. Ramesh Babu Jangala has gained deep insights into structural integrity, corrosion science, continuum mechanics, probabilistic modeling, uncertainty quantification, computational modeling, and Multiphysics simulations. His research addresses theoretical challenges and provides practical solutions that improve the durability and safety of infrastructure in sectors such as aerospace, energy, and oil and gas.
