Dr. Ranganath has spent 30 years working with BWRs. He spent over 28 years working on BWRs at General Electric (GE) before moving to set up a consulting company — XGEN Engineering that provides fracture mechanics, materials and stress analysis services to the power industry. His last position at GE Nuclear Energy was Engineering Fellow and Manager, Hardware Design. He has also taught graduate courses in structural mechanics and materials at Santa Clara University and San Jose State University for over 10 years

Dr. Ranganath has a Ph. D in Engineering from Brown University and a Masters degree in Business Administration from Santa Clara University. He is a Fellow of the ASME. He has also been an Engineering Fellow at GE Nuclear Energy and was elected to the Engineering Hall of Fame at GE Nuclear Energy.

Dr. Ranganath has been active in the development of the ASME Code for over 20 years. He led the effort on developing flaw acceptance rules for austenitic piping in the ASME Code. He was also played a major role in developing improved rules for seismic design of nuclear power plant piping. He has also been the principal investigator on several materials research programs at the Electric Power Research Institute. He has also been active in the BWR Vessel and Internals Program (BWRVIP) and has been the lead author of several Inspection and Evaluation documents for BWR internal components. His expertise in BWR issues such as IGSCC, corrosion fatigue, fracture mechanics, ASME Section XI and Section III Codes, repair hardware design and BWR design is important in assuring that the LOCA frequency conclusions reflect BWR field experience.