Maheswar Ojha received his B.Sc. (1999) in physics (Hons) from the University of Calcutta, his M.Sc. Tech (2003) in applied geophysics from the Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad, and his Ph.D. (2008) in geophysics from Osmania University. He has been employed by CSIR-NGRI Hyderabad since 2008, where he is currently a senior scientist and a faculty member at the Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR). He carried out his postdoctoral research at the University of Texas at Austin, USA. He has been awarded the prestigious CSIR Young Scientist Award 2013, INSA Medal for Young Scientist 2012, AP Academy Young Scientist 2012, BOYSCAST fellowship by DST 2011, and Raman research Fellowship 2015 by CSIR. His current research interests include gas hydrates, seismic wave propagation, the imaging of subduction zones, fiber optic DAS seismic data, machine learning, and the processing, modeling, and inversion of marine multichannel as well as ocean-bottom seismic data.