Keynote Speakers
“Bala” SIVARAMAKRISHNAN, University of Florida, USA
S. “Bala” BALACHANDAR got his undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering at IIT Madras in 1983 and his MS and PhD in Applied Mathematics and Engineering at Brown University in 1985 and 1989. From 1990 to 2005 he was at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. From 2005 to 2011 he served as the Chairman of the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Florida. Currently he is a distinguished professor at the University of Florida, Newton C. Ebaugh Professor, and Director of the Institute for Computational Engineering.
He directed PSAAP-II (2013–2020) and now PSAAP-IV (2025–2030). Fellow of ASME and APS DFD. Awards include ASME Freeman Fellowship Award (2017), Gad Hetsroni Senior Researcher Award (2019), Outstanding Alumnus IIT Madras (2019), Outstanding Doctoral Mentoring Award UF (2020), ASTFE Thermal Fluids Engineering Award (2022), and ASME Fluids Engineering Award (2024). Currently co-editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Multiphase Flow.
Shuichiro MIWA, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Shuichiro MIWA is an Associate Professor at the Nuclear Professional School of the University of Tokyo. He earned his B.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering in 2005, M.S. in 2008, and Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering in 2012 at Purdue University. In 2013, he was appointed Assistant Professor at Hokkaido University, earning awards from JSMF, AESJ, and JSME.
Since 2021, Dr. Miwa has been at the University of Tokyo. His research focuses on gas-liquid two-phase flow modeling, fluid-structure interactions, AI in nuclear thermal-hydraulics, passive safety systems, and Fukushima Daiichi decommissioning support.
Chiara FALSETTI, TU Delft, The Netherlands
Chiara FALSETTI is an Assistant Professor at TU Delft. She was previously a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Oxford Thermofluids Institute and Fellow at Harris Manchester College, University of Oxford, where she developed high-speed infrared thermography for turbines and studied pool boiling for aircraft electronics.
She received her PhD in 2018 at EPFL with research on flow boiling heat transfer and on-chip cooling. She also interned at Nokia Bell Labs (USA). Her work includes phase-change, heat transfer, thermal management systems, and advanced experimental methods. She is Scientific External Advisor for ESA and Subject Editor of Applied Thermal Engineering.