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Prof. S. A. Sannasiraj

Chair Professor, Department of Ocean Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India

Project Lead, Global Water and Climate Adaptation Centre,
Aachen-Bangkok-Chennai-Dresden,
ABCD Centre, IIT Madras

Awards and Honours

2020 Melbourne School of Engineering Visiting Fellow
2019 2nd Best Poster Award – Experimental and Numerical Analysis of PTO Damping…, ASME 2019 (with Suman Kumar & Abdus Samad)
2015 Institution Prize, Indian Engineering Congress – “A Load Cell for Measuring Slack Mooring Forces” (with R. Balaji & Prof. V. Sundar)
2012 Best Paper Award, PIANC-COPEDEC 2012 (with Swapnadip De Chowdhury)
2011 Fulbright-Nehru Senior Research Fellowship, USIEF – Visit to Oregon State University (Jan–Jun)
2007 Endeavour India Executive Award, Australian Government – Visit to Griffith University, Australia
2007 Best Paper in CFD Award, IIT Madras – Simulation of 2D Nonlinear Waves using FEM with Cubic Spline Approximation
2006 DAAD Fellowship – Visit to University of Kiel, Germany
2006 Best Paper Award, 15th APD-IAHR Congress – Simulation of Nonlinear Free Surface Waves (with V. Sriram & Prof. V. Sundar)
2005–2006 Indian Maritime Award – Prediction of Tsunami Wave using Data Buoys (with R. Balaji & Prof. V. Sundar)