Advances in Reliability and Safety Assessment for Critical Systems

Dr. C. Senthil Kumar joined the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) in 1990 and is presently the officer-in-charge of the Southern Regional Regulatory Centre of AERB in Chennai. His areas of specialization include reliability engineering, probabilistic safety assessment (PSA), software reliability, seismic safety, statistical analysis, remote sensing and GIS applications. He has performed the reliability analysis of shutdown system, decay heat removal system, power supply system and passive system reliability analysis as part of Level-1 PSA for the Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor which is under construction at Kalpakkam. His contribution in the seismic re-evaluation of Fast Breeder Test Reactor earned him the AERB group achievement award. His current research is in the development of a methodology for performing multi-unit PSA at Indian nuclear sites. He is also a member of AERB's regulatory review committee on PSA for nuclear facilities. He has earned the Erasmus-Mundus EURECA fellowship for post-doctoral research in the area of 'Software reliability for computer-based systems in safety critical operations' at Sweden in 2009-2010.




Dr. R. Sujatha is currently an associate professor, Mathematics, School of Science and Humanities, Shiv Nadar University, Chennai, India. She has pursued her M.Sc. and Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras and M.Phil. at Ramanujan Institute of Advance Studies in Mathematics. She was awarded CSIR-UGC fellowship for doing Ph.D. Her research interests include algebraic coding theory, fuzzy theory and its applications, and reliability studies. She has 25 years of experience in teaching and research. She has guided seven Ph.D. students and two are under progress. She has authored four books, 78 papers in peer-reviewed journals and 22 in international conference proceedings. She has completed three research projects funded by DST-SERB and AERB.




Dr. R. Muthukumar is the director, Centre