About

Dr. Sriram is currently a Professor in Ocean Engineering Department at IITMadras, Chennai. He has more than 15 years of experience in industry and academia. He joined IITMadras in November 2013 as Assistant Prof, was promoted to Associate professor in 2018, and as Professor in 2022. He has an interest in numerical model developments such as the Particle method, FVM, FEM for wave structure interaction, and a wide variety of problems like ship simulations, offshore structures, and coastal engineering applications. He has published over 100 technical publications in various national and international journals as well as conferences. He received several awards such as Newton International Fellowship (The Royal Society, 2009), Alexander Von Humboldt Fellowship (AvH foundation, 2011), DST-INSPIRE faculty award (DST, 2014), RJ Garde Research Award (from Indian Society of Hydraulics, 2015), ISOPE - Best Session organiser award (2020), DFG - Mercator Fellowship (DFG & Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany).

Career Type:

Scientist/Researcher/Academic

Organization Type:

Universities and Academia

Expertise Fields/Interests:

Coastal Engineering, Wave Hydrodynamics, Scale Effects, Numerical simulations, hybrid modelling

Major Achievements:

Alexander Von Humboldt Fellowship, Newton International Fellowship, R J Garde Research Award