Scientific Coverage

ICACEAA-2025 is an initiative by JAIN (Deemed-to-be University) to create a global knowledge-sharing platform where scientists, researchers, and industry leaders can discuss new-age advancements in aerospace structures and computational techniques.

The conference will cover a range of topics, including:

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Call for Papers

The 1st International Conference on Advances in Computational and Experimental Approaches in Aero-Structures (ICACEAA-2025) invites original research contributions that address scientific and technological developments in aerospace structures. Researchers, academicians, scientists, and industry professionals are encouraged to submit high-quality manuscripts that reflect significant advances in theory, experimentation, and applications.

Submissions must be unpublished, technically sound, and aligned with the conference's thematic focus. All accepted papers will undergo a rigorous peer review and be considered for publication in the official conference proceedings.

Scope of Topics

• Aerospace Structures
• Structural Integrity, Fatigue and Fracture
• Composite Materials
• Smart Materials and Structures
• Structural Health Monitoring and Nondestructive Testing
• Computational Mechanics
• Advanced Manufacturing Methods
• Sustainability and Green Aviation
• Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Structural Applications
• Digital Twin Technology
• Structural Dynamics, Aeroelasticity and Aero Servo-elasticity
• Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and Drone Technologies

Important Dates

Title Sponsor: Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence

Overview :

The conference will host expert-led panel discussions focusing on the adoption and impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), and Digital Twin technologies in the aerospace and advanced manufacturing industries. These discussions aim to provide participants with insights into emerging trends, practical challenges, and strategic implementation in the industry.

Panel Themes:

• Penetration of AI & ML in Industry – Exploring real-world applications, predictive analytics, and decision-making frameworks enabled by AI and ML.
• Digital Twin in Industrial Operations – Examining the integration of digital twin technologies for simulation, monitoring, and optimisation of complex engineering systems.

Panel Members:

Representatives from leading organisations will participate, including:

• Moog Aerospace
• Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence
• MathWorks
• ADE
• Boeing India (to be confirmed)

Objectives:

• Facilitate knowledge exchange between industry leaders, researchers, and academic experts.
• Highlight best practices, innovations, and challenges in implementing AI, ML, and Digital Twin technologies.
• Provide participants with actionable insights for strategic decision-making and technology adoption in aerospace and related sectors.

Conference Committee

PATRONS

Dr. Chenraj Roychand

Chancellor, JAIN (Deemed-to-be University),
Bangalore, India

Dr. V K Aatre

Former Scientific Adviser to Raksha, DRDO

Dr. S Somanath

Former Chairman, ISRO

Dr. Samir V Kamat

Scientific Adviser to Raksha Mantri, DRDO

CONFERENCE CHAIRS

Prof. B Dattaguru

Miles Endowment Chair,
JAIN (Deemed-to-be University), Bengaluru

Dr. N Sundararajan

Expert, JAIN Group Steering Board,
Bengaluru

CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS

Dr. I S Raju

Former NASA-LARC, USA

Prof. S A Hari Prasad

Dean and Director,
JAIN (Deemed-to-be University), Bengaluru

International Steering Committee from JAIN (Deemed-to-be University)

• Chairman: Dr. C G Krishnadas Nair Former Chairman, HAL & Former Chancellor
• Co-Chairman: Prof. P D Mangalgiri, Department of Aerospace Engineering
• Prof. H Adarsha, Professor and HOD, Mechanical Engineering Faculty of Engineering and Technology
• Prof. Mahaveer Kurkuri, Associate Director, Centre for Research in Functional Materials
• Dr Ravindra Bhandary - Vice President
• Dr. Jitendra Kumar Mishra - Vice Chancellor In Charge and Registrar
• Dr Srikanta Swamy - Director, CRTA
• Dr. Dinesh Nilkant - Pro-Vice Chancellor and Professor
• Dr. K R Sridhara Murthi - Advisor, Chancellor’s Advisory Board

International Steering Committee (External Members)

• Dr. Kota Harinarayana, Former Programme Director ADA LCA, (Tejas)
• Prof. Rakesh Kapania, Virginia Tech, USA
• Dr. Pattada Kallappa, Boeing India Engineering & Technology Center, Bengaluru
• Dr. Abhay Pashilkar, Director NAL, Bengaluru
• Dr. A R Upadhya, Former Director, NAL, Bengaluru
• Prof. C S Upadhyay, IIT-Kanpur, India
• Prof. G M Kamath, IIT-Kanpur, India
• Prof. Ajit Kelkar, North Carolina A&T University, USA
• Prof. Ramji Manoharan, IIT Hyderabad, India
• Prof. M S Sivakumar, IIT Chennai, India
• Prof. Timon Rabczuk, Bauhaus-University, Germany
• Prof. Pattabhi Ramaiah B, IIT Bhubaneswar, India
• Prof. J A Reinoso Cuevas, University of Seville, Spain
• Prof. Marco Paggi, IMT School of Advanced Studies, Italy
• Shri V Shripathi, Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence, India
• Dr. R Muthukumar, Chairman, ARDB Structures Panel
• Dr. S Unnikrishnan, Director, VSSC, Trivandrum
• Prof. Rhys Jones, Monash University, Australia
• Prof. J N Reddy, Regents’ professor, Texas A&M, USA
• Prof. Roy Mohapatra, IISc, Bengaluru
• Prof. Mohammad Talha, IIT - Mandi, India
• Dr. C M Manjunath, NAL, Bengaluru
• Prof. K N Shivakumar, NCA&T University, USA
• Prof. Mahesh Hosur, Texas A&M, Kingsville, USA
• Dr. S Raja, NAL, Bengaluru
• Dr. Ripudaman Singh, Inspiring next, Connecticut, USA
• Prof. Chandra Kishen, IISc, Bengaluru
• Dr. R Sunder, BISS, Bengaluru
• Dr. P C Jain, DRDL, Hyderabad

Conference Secretariat

• Prof. S Ramprasad Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering JAIN (Deemed-to-be University)
• Prof. Sudhir Sastry Y B Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering JAIN (Deemed-to-be University)

Organising Committee

• Chair: Prof. Beemkumar N Department of Mechanical Engg, JAIN (Deemed-to-be University)
• Co-chair: Mr. M S Parswanath, Director-Projects and Facilities, JGI, Bengaluru

Members

• Dr. Allamaprabhu CY
• Dr. Ashish Kumar Gupta
• Mr. Amritharaju
• Dr. Amalesh Barai
• Mr. Vinay Prakash Mathur
• Mr. Jeeva Peter
• Mr Ashok Kumar Bakshi
• Wg. Cdr. Prakash Balaraman.
• Dr. Chayapathy V
• Dr. Hariprasad Vasudevan
• Dr. Gara Dheeraj Kumar
• Dr. Paramaguru Venugopal
• Dr. Sundeep Rao P
• Dr Vishwanath KS
• Mr. Naveen Kumar Rajendran
• Mr. G Venkateswarlu
• Mr. Shashikumar S
• Dr. Raja Sekar Karupusamy
• Dr. Shrishail B Sollapur
• Mr. Srikrishna Bhaskar Rao
• Mr. Vasanth Kumar Gurusankar
• Dr. Amit Ashok Pawar
• Dr. P. Lokaiah
• Mr. L Ravi

Plenary Speakers

Prof. Sankaran Mahadevan

Vanderbilt University, USA

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Prof. Sankaran Mahadevan

Vanderbilt University, USA

Dr. Sankaran Mahadevan (John R. Murray) Sr. Professor and holds appointments as Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. He is the founder-director of the Master of Engineering programme in Risk, Reliability, and Resilience Engineering at Vanderbilt University and co-director of Vanderbilt's Laboratory for Systems Integrity and Reliability (LASIR). His research and teaching interests include uncertainty quantification, risk and reliability analysis, machine learning, system diagnosis and prognosis, and decision-making under uncertainty. Prof. Mahadevan has applied these methodologies across civil, mechanical, and aerospace engineering systems. His research has received extensive funding from NSF, NASA, DOE, DOD, FAA, NIST, Airbus, GM, Chrysler, GE, Union Pacific, ABS, Northrop Grumman, Rolls-Royce, and Mitsubishi. He has supervised 45 Ph.D. and 25 M.S. students, co-authored two textbooks, and published over 300 journal and conference papers.

Prof. S Gopalakrishnan

IISc, Bengaluru

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Prof. S Gopalakrishnan

IISc, Bengaluru

Prof. S. Gopalakrishnan obtained his Master's degree in Engineering Mechanics from IIT Chennai, Ph.D. from the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Purdue University, USA, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA. His research focuses on wave propagation in complex media, computational mechanics, smart structures, structural health monitoring, MEMS, and nanocomposite structures. He has published 245 international journal papers, 11 books, 13 book chapters, and 180 conference proceedings. Prof. Gopalakrishnan has received numerous accolades, including the International Structural Health Monitoring Person of the Year Award (2016), Fellowship of the Indian National Academy of Engineering and Indian Academy of Sciences, Associate Fellowship of AIAA, the IIT Chennai Distinguished Alumnus Award, Satish Dhawan Young Scientist Award, and the Royal Academy of Engineering Distinguished Visiting Fellowship (UK).

Prof. Krishnan Balasubramanian

IIT-Chennai

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Prof. Krishnan Balasubramanian

IIT-Chennai

Prof. Krishnan Balasubramanian is a leading expert in Non-Destructive Evaluation (NDE) with over 26 years of experience. He serves as Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Head of the Centre for Non-Destructive Evaluation at IIT Chennai. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal for Non-Destructive Testing and Evaluation (ISNT), Associate Editor of Ultrasonics (Elsevier), and South-East Asia Editor for the Journal of Non-Destructive Testing and Evaluation (Taylor & Francis). A Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineers and NDT International, he has authored over 480 publications, guided 25 Ph.D. and 49 M.S. students, and filed 32 patents. He has been awarded the Roy Sharpe Prize (British Institute for NDT), the Abdul Kalam National Technology Fellowship (2018), and a Lifetime Achievement Award from IIT Chennai.

Prof. S S Iyengar

Florida Atlantic University, USA & JAIN (Deemed-to-be University)

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Prof. S S Iyengar

Florida Atlantic University, USA & JAIN (Deemed-to-be University)

Dr. S.S. Iyengar currently the Distinguished University Professor, Founding Director of the Discovery Lab and Director of the US Army funded Center of Excellence in Digital Forensics at Florida International University, Miami, the Distinguished Chaired Professor (Hon.) at National Forensics Sciences University, Gandhinagar, India and a consultant at JAIN (Deemed to be University) driving research in cyber security and forensics. He has been involved with research and education in high-performance intelligent systems, Data Science and Machine Learning Algorithms, Sensor Fusion, Data Mining, and Intelligent Systems, has guided 65 PhD's, 100 Masters' students, published more than 900 papers and authored/co-authored/edited nearly 32 books. He was honored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers' (IEEE) in July 2019, for his work in creating the Brooks-Iyengar Algorithm in 1996 and which has since been incorporated into a variety of systems across the world.

Prof. S Kumar

University of Glasgow, UK

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Prof. S Kumar

University of Glasgow, UK

Prof. S. Kumar obtained his Ph.D. in Solid Mechanics and Materials Engineering from the University of Oxford, Department of Engineering Science. His research focuses on materials innovation and design within advanced manufacturing, including additive, digital, and sustainable approaches. He has secured over 6 million in external grants and serves on editorial boards of Advanced Engineering Materials (Wiley), Materials Today Communications (Elsevier), International Journal of Adhesion and Adhesives (Elsevier), Scientific Reports (Springer Nature), and Metal Mat (Wiley). He is Associate Editor of the Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance (ASM International) and a Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (FIMMM) and the Royal Aeronautical Society (FRAeS). Prof. Kumar has authored more than 130 journal articles, contributed to seven book chapters, edited a book, and led five special issue collections. He was recently awarded the VAIBHAV Fellowship by DST, India.

Dr.Ayech Benjeddou

Institut Superieur de Mecanique de Paris (SupMeca), Paris

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Dr.Ayech Benjeddou

Institut Superieur de Mecanique de Paris (SupMeca), Paris

Dr. Ayech BENJEDDOU is an exceptional class university Professor. He is a Teacher at Institut Superieur de Mecanique de Paris (ISAE-SUPMECA) and a Researcher at ROBERVAL Research Unit of Universite de Technologie de Compiègne (UTC). His teaching interests are Composite Structures, Intelligent Materials & Adaptive Structures, Structural Vibration & Control, and Finite Element Method. He has around thirty years of research experience in modelling, simulation and testing of Piezoelectric-based Smart Materials, Structures & Systems and has been recently recognised as a Highly Ranked Scholar-Lifetime in the Speciality ‘Piezoelectricity’ and World’s top 2% Scientists. His current research interests are Integrated Tremor Control, Impact Damage Detection, Hamiltonian Semi-analytic Approaches, Field-Dependent Piezoelectric Nonlinearity, and Piezoelectric Smart Honeycomb Sandwich Structures. He has published 264 journal and conference articles, editorials and book chapters. He acted as an independent scientific expert for the European Commission and several European, North American, Asian and African universities and funding agencies. He is currently managing editor of ISSS J. of Micro & Smart Systems (Springer), associate editor of J. of Vibration and Control (Sage) and Int. J. of Smart & Nano Materials (Taylor & Francis), Contributing board member of Mechanics of Advanced Materials & Structures (Taylor & Francis), and editorial board member of Smart Structures & Systems (Techno Press), and Computers, Materials & Continua (Tech Science Press). He edited 24 issues and 1 volume for these journals. He also reviewed 116 scientific journals. He gave 38 plenary speeches, keynote speeches, and invited lectures, and he organised 26 conferences, mini-symposia, and special sessions. He coordinates the ECCOMAS Thematic Conf. on Smart Structures & Materials (SMART) biennial series. He was invited by 20 academic and industrial institutions in 8 European, Asian and African countries

Dr. Prahlada Ramarao

Ex DRDO Scientist in Charge of AKASH Air Defence System

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Dr. Prahlada Ramarao

Ex DRDO Scientist in Charge of AKASH Air Defence System

Dr. Prahlada Ramarao is a Padma Shri awardee and one of India's foremost defence scientists, celebrated for his contributions to indigenous missile development. He served as Director of the Defence Research and Development Laboratory (DRDL), Hyderabad, and was the youngest project director of the Akash Surface-to-Air Missile System, personally appointed by Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam. Born in 1947 in Bangalore, he earned his B.E. in Mechanical Engineering (UVCE), M.E. in Aeronautical Engineering (IISc), and Ph.D. (JNTU Hyderabad). His leadership contributed to programs including Astra, BrahMos, and Pinaka, earning accolades such as the DRDO Award for Outstanding Contribution, the National Aeronautical Prize, and the Lifetime Achievement Award from HMA.

Jocelyn Gaudin

Head of Airbus India Engineering, Bangalore

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Jocelyn Gaudin

Head of Airbus India Engineering, Bangalore

Jocelyn Gaudin is the Head of Airbus India Engineering, Bengaluru. He oversees airframe design, advanced simulation, and engineering solutions supporting civil, military, and defence aerospace programmes. She leads teams contributing to aircraft development, digital engineering, and technology integration, fostering collaboration between Indian engineering talent and international Airbus initiatives. Her expertise encompasses product development, advanced manufacturing technologies, and engineering transformation, emphasising efficiency, reliability, and innovation in aerospace systems.

Prof. Christian Boller

Professor, Saarland University, Department of Materials Science and Materials Engineering, Saarbrucken, Germany

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Prof. Christian Boller

Professor, Saarland University, Department of Materials Science and Materials Engineering, Saarbrucken, Germany

Prof. Christian Boller is internationally recognised for his work in smart structures, fatigue life evaluation, and structural health monitoring (SHM) in aerospace and defence systems. He holds the Chair of Non-Destructive Testing and Quality Assurance at Saarland University and previously served as Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Nondestructive Testing (IZFP) (2008-2020). With a background in civil and structural engineering, Prof. Boller began his career at Battelle-Europe and MBB Military Aircraft (now Airbus), where he became Chief Engineer for Aerostructures. He has held academic appointments at the University of Sheffield, Dresden International University, and Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Prof. Boller has authored over 300 publications, including the Encyclopedia of Structural Health Monitoring, and is a key organiser of the European Workshop on SHM and Symposium on NDT in Aerospace.

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