Gowrishankaran Raveendran is a Mechanical Engineer and PhD researcher at CQUniversity Australia, currently pursuing a Doctor of Philosophy in Agriculture Mechanisation. His research focuses on the development and optimisation of mechanised systems for agricultural applications, particularly precision planting, seed metering, harvesting, and post-harvest processing. His work integrates experimental evaluation with numerical modelling and simulation-based optimisation to improve the efficiency, reliability, and performance of agricultural machinery. He holds an MSc in Renewable and Sustainable Energy Technologies from Northumbria University, UK, and a BSc in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka. His research and engineering expertise includes agricultural mechanisation, mechanical design, CAD modelling, finite element analysis, computational fluid dynamics, discrete element modelling, optimisation, renewable energy systems, and hydraulic and electrical control systems. He has professional and research experience in academia, engineering consultancy, and manufacturing, with contributions to agricultural machinery, greenhouse automation, grain cleaning, renewable energy, and engineering optimisation. His current research interests include precision planting, seed handling and metering, harvesting and cleaning systems, DEM-CFD modelling, and simulation-based optimisation.