Abhijit Dandekar is Professor and Chair of the Petroleum Engineering Department at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Before joining UAF, he was an assistant research professor at the Technical University of Denmark. He has been a visiting professor at the African University of Science and Technology (AUST) in Abuja, Nigeria, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa (as Fulbright specialist), China University of Petroleum Beijing, China University of Petroleum in Qingdao, and at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India (as Global Initiative of Academic Network fellow). He holds a B.Tech degree in chemical engineering from Nagpur University, India and a Ph.D. degree in petroleum engineering from Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK. He has authored more than 100 peer-reviewed and conference papers and a widely adopted textbook on Petroleum Reservoir Rock and Fluid Properties and co-authored a book on Petroleum Fluid Phase Behavior: Characterization, Processes, and Applications. He is also the editor for Emerging Trends and Technologies in Petroleum Engineering book series. In 2014 he received the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) Distinguished Membership and Fulbright Specialist awards. In 2015 he was the recipient of the SPE Western North America Region Distinguished Achievement Award for Petroleum Engineering Faculty. Over the last 20 years he has contributed to numerous SPE activities, is a current SPE nominated petroleum engineering program evaluator (PEV) for Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology (ABET) and has served on several domestic and two international visits. Dr. Jitendra S. Sangwai is currently working as a full Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and is associated with the Petroleum Engineering Program of the Department of Ocean Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras. He holds an M.Tech and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from IIT Kharagpur and IIT Kanpur. Dr. Sangwai worked with Schlumberger for a brief period before joining academia. Dr. Sangwai's research interest lies mainly in gas hydrates, enhanced oil recovery, and rheology of complex fluids. He has published approximately 130 international journal papers, 90 conference publications, and filed 20 patents. He has graduated 20 Ph.D. and several Master's degree students. Dr. Sangwai is the recipient of the Society of Petroleum Engineers' Distinguished Achievement Award for Petroleum Engineering Faculty of the South Asia and Pacific region in 2017, the National Award for Technology Innovation from the Gov. of India (2016 and 2018), the Young Faculty Recognition Award for excellence in teaching and research, Institute Research and Development Awards (both at Early- and Mid-Career level) and Shri. J. C. Bose Patent Award from IIT Madras, and SPE Regional Service Award (2015). Dr. Sangwai has been highlighted as 'One among 25 Emerging Investigators' and Top 1% Highly Cited Author recognition by the American Chemical Society Journals.
