"Sushree Sangeeta Panda graduated as B.E. from University College of Engineering Burla, Odisha (Autonomous then, now VSSUT, Burla). She did her Master in Technology in Civil Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM) having specialization in Structural Engineering. She was recipient of Prof Juergen Plaehn Prize and Silver medal from IIT Madras for the best experimental M.Tech thesis in Structural Engineering. She worked in understanding shear behaviour of RC beams with a couple of research publications in reputed Scopus indexed SCI journals. She has other interests in Finite Element Analysis, Fracture mechanics, ANN etc."