Chief Guest and Keynote Speaker-1
29th September
Dr. Suresh Madhusudan Deshpande
Retd Satish Dhawan Chair Professor, IISc, Bangalore
Profile :
- Senior Research Associate and Consultant at EMU-JNCASR in Bangalore, India.
- FASc, FNAE, FAeSI, Fellow Indian Academy of Sciences.
- Professor at Department of Aerospace Engineering,IISc, Bangalore (1984-2004).
- Honorary Professor at Engineering Mechanics Unit JNCASR, Bangalore (1998-2001).
- NRC Senior Research Associate at NASA in Hampton ( Virginia) ,USA between the period of 1983-1985.
- Biren Roy Trust Award of the Aeronautical Society of India (1991)
- Astronautical Society of India Award for outstanding contribution in Rocket and related technologies.
- ISRO Sponsored Prof. Satish Dhawan Chair since October 2000.
- DRDO Academic Excellence Award-2002 in CFD in the Hands of Prime Minister of India and Visvesvaraya Lifetime Achievement Award 2019 conferred by VNIT, Nagpur.
- Visiting Professor and Invited Talks to more than 40 International Universities in USA, Germany, France. UK, Korea, China, Switzerland, Bulgaria, Hong Kong, Japan.
- Consultant to DRDL Hyderabad, BARC Mumbai, ADA, Boeing Company, DRDO, CSIR.
- Guided over 25 PhDs, Publication: more than 128 Papers in Journals of repute and 105 in Conferences/Symposium.
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Keynote Speaker-2
30th September
Dr. Navin J. Manjooran, Ph.D, MBA, FASM
Chairman at Solve, Windermere, Florida, United States
Profile :
- Vice President, Board of Trustees member and Fellow of ASM International.
- Chairman of the Advisory Board for Materials Science and Engineering and the College of Engineering at the University of Florida.
- Served on Virginia Tech Board of Visitors, University of Chicago Board of Trustees and on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) energy initiative board.
- Professor Adjunct in Materials Science and Engineering at Virginia Tech since 2010.
- Patents: 12, Books: 12, Publication: More than 100 in International Journals and conferences.
- Invited talks at national or international events
- Doctorate degree in materials science and engineering from Virginia Tech.
- Master's degree in materials science and engineering from the University of Florida
- Bachelor's degree in metallurgical engineering from the National Institute of Technology.
- MBA from the prestigious Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago.
- Recipient of several prestigious awards.
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