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N. Seetharamu, known to his colleagues and students simply as KNS, was a leading computational heat transfer expert. He transformed this area of research in India and elsewhere through his simplified approaches and the use of finite element method. KNS received his undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering from Mysore University in 1960 before earning his Master's degree in power engineering and PhD in heat transfer, respectively from IISc Bangalore in 1962 and IIT Madras in 1973. After a brief stint in Industry and BIT Ranchi, KNS started his three decades of academic career at IIT Madras until 1998. Between 1999 and until his death in January 2022, he carried out research and taught engineering students in various universities including University Sains Malaysia (1998-2005), MS Ramaiah School of Advanced Studies, Bangalore (2005-2006), Sri Bhagawan Mahaveer Jain College of Engineering Bangalore (2006-2007) and PES University, Bangalore (2007 - 2022). During his career, KNS formally graduated 57 postgraduate research students and informally helped many others to earn research degrees. He also published 455 articles including 207 journal articles and with total citations exceeding 7000. After a significant contribution to boiling heat transfer in his doctoral work , KNS started working in the area of the finite element method in the early eighties. The finite element research in heat transfer was significantly enhanced by his research visits to Swansea University and fruitful collaboration with senior academics in Swansea. He made the discrete systems approach (a precursor to full finite element method) very popular in heat transfer through his works in heat conduction, flow through pipe networks, heat exchangers and heat transfer enhancement. He continued such a simple but effective approach to energy and momentum balance in various applications throughout his research career.

Dr. Yogendra Kumar Joshi is Professor and John M. McKenney and Warren D. Shiver Distinguished Chair at the G.W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He obtained his B.Tech. from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur and M.S. degree from State University of New York, Buffalo. He has received his Ph.D. from University of Pennsylvania in the year 1984. His research areas include heat transfer, combustion, and energy systems; micro and nano engineering; and thermofluidic issues in emerging technologies and microthermal systems. His research interests are in multi-scale thermal management. He is the author or co-author of nearly four hundred publications in this area, including nearly two hundred journal articles. Prior to joining Georgia Institute of Technology in 2001, he held faculty appointments at the University of Maryland at College Park (1993-2001), and Naval Postgraduate School (1986-1993). He has served as the Principal Investigator for multiple Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) programs, and Office of Naval Research Consortium for Resource-Secure Outposts (CORSO). He was Site Director for the National Science Foundation Industry/University Cooperative Research Center on Energy Efficient Electronic Systems. He has held visiting faculty appointments at Stanford University, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, and Xi'an Jiaotong University. He is an elected Fellow of the ASME, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and IEEE. He is a recipient of many distinguished awards such as the ASME Electronic and Photonic Packaging Division Outstanding Contribution Award in Thermal Management, ASME J. of Electronics Packaging Best Paper of the Year Award, IBM Faculty Award, IEEE SemiTherm Significant Contributor Award, ASME InterPack Achievement Award, ITherm Achievement Award, and ASME Heat Transfer Memorial Award.