Bio

Prof. R. I. Sujith received his B. Tech in Aerospace Engineering from IIT Madras in 1988. He then graduated with an M. S. (1990) and Ph. D. (1994), from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He joined IIT Madras as a faculty member at the Department of Aerospace Engineering in 1995, where he is currently an Institute Professor and D. Srinivasan Chair Professor. He heads the Center of Excellence (CoE) to study Critical Transitions in Complex Systems (CTCS) at IIT Madras. Sujith is a recipient of the Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship and the Hans Fischer Senior Fellowship of the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) of TU Munich. Sujith was the founding Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Spray and Combustion Dynamics and is currently a member of the editorial advisory board of Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science.

He has been awarded the Swarnajayanti and J.C. Bose Fellowships by the Department of Science and Technology of the Government of India. He is an International Member of the US National Academy of Engineering. He is a Distinguished Fellow of the International Institute of Acoustics and Vibration (IIAV) and a Fellow of the Combustion Institute, the Indian National Academy of Engineering and the Indian Academy of Sciences and an ambassador of TU Munich. He has been conferred with the life-time achievement award of IIT Madras. Prof. Sujith's research interests are in the area of complex systems theory in general and thermoacoustic instability in particular.