Dr. Sung Kyu Ha has a Ph.D. in department of mechanical engineering (1988) from Stanford University and joined Hanyang University since 1991. Dr. Ha has been actively collaborating with global composites industry in the areas of aerospace, automotive, wind turbine and oil & gas application. Dr. Ha developed innovative multiscale approach and tools for industry to predict static and fatigue failure behavior and to simulate virtual manufacturing process of composite materials. In 2016, Dr. Ha was awarded the Life Time Achievement in JEC Group for his life-long unmatched contribution to composite industry. In 2019, the HSCL was selected as the Top Prestige Global Industrial University Collaboration Center of Hanyang University. Dr R Velmurugan is Senior Professor of Aerospace Engineering, IIT Madras. His areas of research include composite materials, nanomaterials, finite element analysis, structural crashworthiness, and impact mechanics. He has completed many consultancy and sponsored projects from many DRDO laboratories, ISRO centers, government agencies, and many private industries. He has more than 350 research articles and guided many students for Ph.D., M.S., and M.Tech. degrees. He has delivered many invited lectures in many international and national conferences.Dr. Shankar Krishnapillai is Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Madras. He obtained D.Phil. from The University of Oxford (UK) in 1996 from the Department of Engineering Science. Thereafter, he worked at the NASA Johnson Space Center and as faculty in National University of Singapore. He joined IIT Madras in 2003. His areas of interest are machine design, materials, and structural dynamics with a special interest in optimization methods in design. He has 190 research publications and completed 25 Ph.D. and M.S. research students. He has numerous research and consultancy projects from the government as well as private industry in mechanical design. Heis Member of design review committee for the Indian defense research agency.
