Krish Thiagarajan Sharman is an Endowed Chair in Renewable Energy and Professor in the Dept. of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Massachusetts (Amherst). He holds a PhD in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering from the University of Michigan and has been an academic at various universities in Australia and the US over the past 25 years. Prof. Sharman has been a Fellow of SNAME since 2016 and was selected for the Faculty Advisor of the Year Award in 2016. He is the coordinator of the ASME Ocean Renewable Energy Symposium and the Ocean Offshore and Arctic Engineering Conference, along with serving in a co-chair role for the International Offshore Wind Technical Conference. His areas of interest focus on design and fluid-structure interaction analysis of floating offshore wind systems, wave and tidal energy systems, coastal food production systems, and offshore platforms in general.Roger I. Basu holds a PhD in Structural Engineering from the University of Western Ontario, is a structural engineer with more than 50 years of experience, and a Fellow of SNAME. He recently spent two years teaching various naval architectural subjects at Webb Institute (NY). Prior to Webb, Dr. Basu had a 15-year career with the American Bureau of Shipping (Houston, TX) where he retired in 2012 in the position of Director of Shared Technology, responsible for the development of several technologies applicable to both marine and offshore sectors. After a career in both industry and academia, in 2013, Roger set up his own company, Roger Basu and Associates Inc., which provides technical services and specialized consulting for structural integrity of marine systems.
