Shankar Subramaniam is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Iowa State University and Founding Director of the Center for Multiphase Flow Research and Education. He received his B. Tech. in aeronautical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (Mumbai) in 1988 and is a recipient of the President’s Silver Medal. He earned his PhD at Cornell University, after an MS in Aerospace Engineering at the University of Notre Dame, USA. Prior to joining the ISU faculty in 2002, Subramaniam was an assistant professor at Rutgers University. He is a recipient of the US Department of Energy’s Early Career Principal Investigator award. His areas of expertise are theory, modelling and simulation of multiphase flows including sprays, particle-laden flows, colloids and granular mixtures, turbulence, mixing, and reacting flows.
S. Balachandar is currently the William F. Powers Professor and University Distinguished Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Florida. From 2005 to 2011, he was the Chairman of the department. He is the inaugural Director of the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering Institute for Computational Engineering (ICE). Professor Balachandar’s expertise is in computational multiphase flow, direct and large eddy simulations of transitional, turbulent flows, and integrated multiphysics simulations of complex problems. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Professor Balachandar received the Francois Frenkiel Award from the American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics in 1996 and the Arnold O. Beckman Award and the University Scholar Award from the University of Illinois.