The Centre for Experimental Social Sciences Nuffield - FLAME University invites you to our General Interest Seminar:
Sri Lanka: Prospects for Peace
Kasivisvanathan "Chelva" Chelvakumar, Visiting Professor, IIT - Gandhinagar

The Centre for Experimental Social Sciences (CESS) Nuffield - FLAME University is pleased to welcome Kasivisvanathan "Chelva" Chelvakumar, Visiting Professor at IIT - Gandhinagar. Professor Chelvakumar received a Ph.D. in Mechanical and Civil Engineering with a minor in Aeronautics from the California Institute of Technology and a Health Care Executive MBA from the University of California, Irvine. His extensive cross-sectoral experience includes serving as the President of EPIR Technologies, Inc., a research, development and manufacturing company for the U.S. defense agencies and working as a tenure-track faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University, where he led the structural design team of the Mars Rover robotics project. Professor Chelvakumar has also acted as a shuttle diplomat in the Sri Lankan Civil War during the 80’s and 90’s working between the governments of Sri Lanka and India and the Tamil leadership. For more information about Professor Chelvakumar, please see his biography attached.