Suresh Pandian Elumalai holds B.Tech degree in Chemical engineering from University of Madras, Chennai, Tamil Nadu in 2002, M. Tech. degree in Environmental Engineering from Pondicherry University, Puducherry, India in 2005 and Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, India in 2011. Since then he served as Assistant Professor (till March 2021) and at present serving as an Associate Professor in Environmental Science and Engineering at the Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. His major area of research are heterogeneous traffic emission and dispersion modeling, rain water analysis for air pollutants reaction, PM exposure dose, urban heat island effects and emission inventory.