Sanjay Mittal received his undergraduate education in Aeronautical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India. He went to the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA for his graduate education. Presently, he is a Professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India. His research interests include fluid-structure interactions, flow-induced vibration, bluff body flows, aerodynamic shape optimization, shock-boundary layer interactions, high performance computing, modeling of traffic flow, sports aerodynamics and low speed wind-tunnel testing. He is an active badminton player and his love for sports has found its way in his research. He is passionate about teaching, and recently received the Excellence-in-Teaching Award and the Gopal Das Bhandari Distinguished Teacher Award from his Institute. He is a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering, Indian National Science Academy, Indian Academy of Sciences and National Academy of Sciences. He received the prestigious Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize in Engineering Sciences, in 2006.

Perumal Nithiarasu (PN) is a Computational Engineering Professor and the Associate Dean for Research, Impact, and Innovation at the Faculty of Science and Engineering, Swansea University. With a career spanning nearly three decades, PN has made significant contributions to computational fluid dynamics, biomedical engineering, and heat transfer. PN's expertise in computational heat transfer is currently focused on the interface between physics-based models and machine learning. PN has a prolific publication record, with over 300 articles and two books to his credit. PN's contributions have been recognised with prestigious awards, including the Zienkiewicz Silver Medal from ICE London in 2002, the ECCOMAS Young Investigator Award in 2004, and the esteemed EPSRC Advanced Fellowship in 2006. He holds the position of Founding Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal for Numerical Methods in Biomedical Engineering, published by Wiley-Blackwell. PN was elected a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales in 2018.