Keynote Speakers
Dr. Kiran B. Deshpande, Senior Researcher, General Motors R&D, India Science Lab
Use of COMSOL Multiphysics in Modelling of Galvanic Corrosion
Kiran received his M. S. from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and his Ph.D. from University of Sheffield, both in Chemical Engineering. He is currently working as a Senior Researcher at the General Motors R&D, India Science Lab, Bangalore where he is involved in modeling of galvanic corrosion and its mitigation strategies. Prior to joining GM R&D, he was Knowledge Transfer Program associate with University of Sheffield and MHT Technology Ltd., UK. He has contributed a chapter in the book titled "Multiphysics modelling with finite element methods" by Prof. WBJ Zimmerman.
Dr. h. c. Svante Littmarck, President and CEO, COMSOL
A first Look at COMSOL version 4.1
Svante Littmarck is the President and CEO of COMSOL. He co-founded the company in 1986. In 2004, Littmarck received an honorary doctoral degree from the Royal Institute of Technology for the development and international reach of high quality software for scientific computations through his company, COMSOL.
Dr. Anil Prabhakar, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, IIT-Madras
Engineering Light Photonics, Plasmonics and Meta-materials
Anil Prabhakar joined the faculty at IIT-Madras in 2002, after 5 years of post-doctoral experience in the hard disk drive industry. His current research interests include photonics, spintronics, nonlinear dynamics and alternative and augmentative communication. As a member of the Optics Group in the Dept. of Electrical Engineering, he is actively involved in areas of data storage, telecommunication and bioengineering. He is a co-author of the book, Spin Waves: Theory and Applications, Springer and is now authoring the NPTEL online course on Computational Electromagnetics.
Dr. Aparna Sheila-Vadde, Lead Engineer, GE Global Research
Finite Element Modeling for Design, Analysis and Optimization of Antennas
Aparna Sheila-Vadde is currently a Lead Engineer at the GE Global Research Center in Bangalore. Her research interests are in electromagnetics and specifically sensor design. Aparna is working on sensors in the MHz-GHz frequency range for various non-destructive testing applications. She holds a Ph.D in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.
Dr. R. N. Singh, NGRI (CSIR)
COMSOL Multiphysics in Earth Science Education and Research
Dr. R. N Singh is currently a INSA Senior Scientist. Prior to this appointment, he was a CSIR Emeritus Scientist at the National Geophysical Research Institute (NGRI), Hyderabad. He has been the Scientist-in-Charge of CSIR Centre of Mathematical Modeling and Computer Simulation, Bangalore (1996-99) and the Director of National Environmental Engineering Research Institute, Nagpur (1999-2003). He has over four decades of research experience in geophysical and environmental modeling and over one hundred and forty publications. He is a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences and Indian National Science Academy and has been a recipient of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize.
Mr. Vinoo Srinivas M, Specialist, Technical Computing, Microsoft Corporation
Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 Goals and Overview
A Mechanical Engineer from Madras University and an MBA from Symbiois Pune, Vinoo has been working in the Indian Enterprise and Technical Computing space for more than 10 years. He has been consulting customers for their Technical and High Performance Computing needs for the past 5 years. He has been involved in architecting some of the large HPC clusters in the country across Fundamental Research, CAE and Animation industries.
