Prof. Abdus Samad is a Professor in the Department of Ocean Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India. He received his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Aligarh Muslim University (India) in 1984 and 2004, respectively. He obtained his Ph.D. from Inha University (South Korea) in 2008. He completed his post-doctoral studies at the University of Aberdeen, UK in 2010. He joined the Indian Institute of Technology Madras as an Assistant Professor in August 2010 and was promoted to Associate Professor in August 2015. He became a Professor in March 2020. His research areas include marine/wave/tidal energy, renewable energy, fluid and turbomachinery, design optimization, and computational fluid dynamics.