Dr. T. Jothi Saravanan is an Assistant Professor at the School of Infrastructure, Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar (IIT-BBS), Odisha. Previously, he worked as JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Sciences, Yokohama National University, Japan. He completed his under graduation in Civil Engineering from College of Engineering Guindy, Anna University, Chennai, India in 2012 and obtained his postgraduate degree in Engineering of Structures from the CSIR-Structural Engineering Research Centre, Chennai, India under the Academy of Scientific & Innovative Research in 2014. Later, he obtained a doctoral degree in Civil Engineering from The University of Tokyo, Japan in 2018 with a Thesis Adjudged Excellent at the Department level. His field of interest includes Structural Health Monitoring; Computer Vision-based Monitoring; Machine learning; Smart Materials and Structures; Wave Propagation Mechanics; Nondestructive Evaluation; Structural Dynamics; Vibration analysis; Experimental Techniques in Structural Engineering. He has authored more than 11 book chapters, 36 journal papers, 35 conference papers, and 2 technical reports. He is a recipient of various fellowships/scholarships namely, Quick Recruitment Scientist (Fellow) by Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Ministry of Science & Technology, India in 2014-15; Monbukagakusho: MEXT Scholarship by Govt. of Japan in 2015-2018; Visiting Scholar to University of Cambridge, UK in 2016; JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science in 2018-20.