Dr. Sudhakar Marur has more than 28 years of technical and leadership experience in industrial R&D of GE Global Research, SABIC, Eaton and TATA AutoComp Systems Limited. His areas of expertise include computational mechanics, mechanical design, CAE, Engineering thermoplastics, Composite materials and engineering software for computational geometry. He received his PhD from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, in computational nonlinear structural dynamics and later continued his post-doctoral work on nonlinear vibrations and elementology, at National Aerospace Labs. A certified six-sigma Black Belt from GE, he has a book, several scientific publications, patents and corporate awards to his credit.