Dr. Gautam SenGupta received his BSc (Physics) from Presidency College, Calcutta, India, his BTech (Mechanical Engineering) from IIT, Kharagpur, India, and his PhD from the University of Southampton, United Kingdom, where he developed a unique method for predicting the natural frequencies of periodic structures. He worked as a Specialist Engineer in Acoustic Fatigue at the Royal Aeronautical Society of England, and at NASA-Langley as a Research Associate. He joined Boeing in 1973, where he applied the Periodic Structure Theory to predict and control the structural acoustic characteristics of an airplane fuselage in a cost-effective manner. He retired in 2016 as a Technical Fellow of the Boeing Company in Seattle, where he was also involved in developing methods for predicting airframe noise and transonic flutter characteristics of airplanes. In addition, he has served as an Affiliate Professor at the University of Washington, where he taught courses on Structural Dynamics and related subjects.