S. Nadaraja Pillai is a Professor at the Turbulence & Flow Control Lab, School of Mechanical Engineering, SASTRA Deemed University. He received his Ph.D. degree from the Tokyo Polytechnic University, Japan. He was a researcher and then continued as a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Global Center of Excellence supported by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology, Japan. He received an early career research award under the Young Scientist Scheme from the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India. He is a recipient of the Best Engineer Award from the Institution of Engineers, India. His expertise includes aerodynamics, wind tunnel testing, computational fluid dynamics, combustion, wind engineering, and wind turbine aerodynamics.