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Dr M A Atmanand

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National Institutre of Ocean Technology, Chennai

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Dr MA Atmanand is a Visiting Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. He has more than three decades of experience in the field of Ocean Technology and he is the former Director of National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT), Chennai. His areas of interest include development of underwater systems, ocean observation systems, components for deep sea applications, blue economy, project management, and teaching students deep sea technology, ocean instrumentation, deep sea mining etc., based on his long practical experience in this field. Dr Atmanand has done pioneering work in deep sea technologies in India. He led a team of engineers for the design and development of underwater crawler for deep sea operation. He and his team developed the in-situ soil tester which was tested at a depth of 5,200 m in the Central Indian Ocean Basin. He has also guided various indigenisation programmes for Ocean observation and underwater systems. He is nominated as Chair, Marine Systems Panel, Naval Research Board, DRDO, Government of India; Chair of IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society Technology committee on Cables and Connectors; Founder Chair of IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society in India. He is the Governor's nominee to the Planning Board of Bharathidasan University. He is elected as a member of SUT Council. In view of the pioneering work done in the area of deep-sea technologies in 2020, Dr Atmanand received the prestigious MoES National Award of Excellence in Ocean Technology, Life time achievement award from IEEE Madras for 2021, the Dr D. Srinivasan Endowment Award for the year 2021, instituted by the Ocean Society of India (OSI), for outstanding contributions in the areas of Ocean Engineering and Technology, the International Society for Ocean and Polar Engineers award in 2020. the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Oceanic Engineering Society, Presidential Award in 2016 etc. Dr MA Atmanand has published more than 160 papers in international journals, international and national conferences, book chapters, and others. He has delivered more than 300 invited lectures at conferences.