Dr.  A. Seshadri Sekhar is currently the Director of IIT Palakkad, Kerala.  He received the degrees, B.E (1983) from College of Engineering, Andhra University, M.E (1988) from IISc Bangalore and Ph.D (1993) from IIT Madras. He joined IIT Kharagpur as a visiting lecturer in 1993 and became Professor in 2003. After serving at IIT Kharagpur for 13 years, he has been a Professor at IIT Madras since 2006. He has been the Head (2020-22) of the Mechanical Engineering department at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. Before that he has been the Professor-in-charge of Central Workshop (2018-20). He has also served (1999-2000) as Organising Vice-Chairman, GATE-2000 at IIT Kharagpur.

He has been awarded the Carrier Award for Young Teacher by the All-India Council of Technical Education (AICTE) in 1998. He did research at TU Darmstadt, Germany as an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow in 2002. He has published 219 Technical papers including 110 international journals and 3 patents to his credit. He has guided 17 Ph.D students. He is the co-author of the book –Dynamic Analysis of Rotating Systems and Applications (Multi Science Publishing Ltd., UK). He has served as an Associate editor of Journal Vibration Engineering and Technologies, of Springer Nature for 4 years. Prior to that he has served as an editorial member of the Journal of Advances in Mechanical Engineering (SAGE Publishers) for 4years .  He has made significant contributions to the fields such as rotor dynamics, condition monitoring and vibrations.  He had also worked as an Engineer, for about 4 years in NTPC and BEML, before settling in teaching profession.  He is currently a member of Vibration and Mechanical Shock Sectional Committee, Bureau of Indian Standards since 2016. Prof. Sekhar has uninterruptedly featured in all the 6 versions so far of the Top 2% Scientists list (https://elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btchxktzyw) released by Stanford University.