Gopika Vinod

GOPIKA VINOD is a scientist in the Reactor Safety Division at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre. Her research interests include probabilistic safety assessment and risk-informed in-service inspection methods as applied to nuclear power and heavy-water plants. Vinod received a PhD in reliability engineering from IIT Bombay. She is a member of the Indian Nuclear Society and the European Committee for Standardization workshop WS 24, which develops procedures for inspecting and maintaining safety-critical systems. Contact her at vgopika@barc.gov.in. A.K. TRIPATHI is a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and the dean of resources and alumni at IIT (BHU). His research interests include distributed computing and software engineering. Tripathi received a PhD in software engineering from IIT (BHU). Contact him at aktripathLcse@iitbhu.ac.in.