Debasish RoyDebasish Roy is currently working as Professor in the Computational Mechanics Laboratory at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He obtained his Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Science, followed by post-doctoral research at the University o Innsbruck, Austria. Besides being a fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering, he has also held an Honorary Professorship in the School of Engineering, University of Aberdeen, and a distinguished visiting fellowship of the Royal Academy of Engineering, London. His areas of research include computational mechanics of non-classical continua, stochastic dynamical systems and optimization/inverse problems. He has published over 120 papers in journals of international repute, delivered keynote/invited lectures at many international conferences and served on editorial boards. Read More Read Less