Dr. S. Viswanath graduated from the University of Mysore in Mechanical Engineering and subsequently completed M.Tech from IIT, Madras. He later obtained his Ph.D in aeronautical engineering from IISc, Bangalore. He has more than 130 publications in various journals, conferences , seminars and as technical documents. He is a Fellow of the Aeronautical Society of India, Life Member of ISAMPE and Member of the Computer Society of India. He received Dr. Roy Biren award from the Aeronautical Society of India in the year 2000 for his outstanding contribution to the design and certification of the all composite HANSA-3 aircraft. He is a distinguished visiting Professor of VTU, awarded by AICTE.