Dr. Phaneendra Kondapi is a Senior Technical Advisor at Granherne-KBR, Houston and has around 20 years of professional experience with different engineering and consulting firms around the globe in various technical and management positions. His technical interests includes flow assurance, subsea procesing, process simulation, operator training simulators and multiphase flow simulators. Dr. Kondapi is also a KBR Adjunct Professor of Subsea Engineering at University of Houston. He has supported the development of first and only Subsea Engineering program in the US and teaches Flow Assurance course using an innovative Reverse Circular Teaching method developed by him.

Dr. Kondapi is a member of SPE, founding member of AIChE-UEFA Forum and founding faculty advisor of Subsea Engineering Society. He is the current Chair of SPE Flow Assurance Technical Section and an active member of SPE Global Training Committee and OTC Program Committee. He has organized many technical sessions and has over 30 technical articles and presentations at various conferences and workshops. Dr. Kondapi received his Ph.D. from Tennessee Technological University and B.S. and M.S. from Andhra University, all in Chemical Engineering. He is a recipient of SPE Teaching Fellow Award from SPE International in 2013.