Dr. Jayant Sabnis received his B.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Bombay in 1975 and Ph.D. from Syracuse University in 1981.nnStarting his career in Propulsion Systems Gas Dynamics in the 80’s, Dr. Sabnis made significant contributions in the development and application of computational analyses for multi-phase reacting flows in solid and liquid rocket motors. The analytical capability developed during these research programmes was used in the failure analyses and design improvements in the Space Shuttle Main Engine, the Solid Rocket Motor as well as a few other solid rockets.nn