Chaitanya Kesanapalli

About Chaitanya Kesanapalli

Naval Architect and Marine Engineer at Chevron, supporting deepwater platform integrity, global performance analysis of the floating offshore platforms, and marine terminal design and operations across Chevron\'s global portfolio.My passion is building GPU-accelerated digital twin systems that integrate physics-based modeling with real-time sensor data to monitor and predict the structural behavior of deepwater offshore platforms - making critical infrastructure safer, smarter, and more resilient.I hold a Ph.D. in Ocean Engineering from Texas A&M University (2024), where my dissertation advanced SPH-based computational methods for violent wave impacts, hydroelastic responses, and structural digital twins validated against physical experiments.Co-inventor of the Ocean Blanket wave energy converter (US20•••••••48A1), achieving up to 78% capture width ratio through multi-resonance optimization licensed through the Texas A&M University System. Published in Scientific Reports (Nature Portfolio) and Marine Structures (Elsevier).Open to collaborations in offshore digital twins, CFD, structural health monitoring, and marine renewable energy.

Experience

1. Naval Architect & Marine Engineer

   Chevron

   Oct 2025 — Present · Houston, TX, US

   Leading structural and hydrodynamic analysis and real-time monitoring across Chevron\'s deepwater platform portfolio. Current scope:Digital Twin & Tendon Monitoring — Developing a real-time digital twin system for deepwater TLP tendons, with an OrcaFlex global motion model calibrated against field sensor data. Running large-scale multi-metocean analyses to predict tendon tension under extreme conditions, enabling proactive structural integrity management.Global Performance Analysis — Conducting large-scale OrcaFlex global performance analyses for Chevron floating platforms across multiple metocean conditions in support of pre-FEED for riser and umbilical systems.Marine Terminal SME Support — Providing SME-level numerical analysis support (mooring, berthing, hydrodynamic) for Chevron marine terminals worldwide across all project phases, from concept through execution.LLM-Enabled Engineering Intelligence — Expanded an in-house LLM tool originally built for subsea geotechnical reports to hull pipe inspection, extracting structured inspection results from reports and making legacy data rapidly actionable for integrity engineers.

Education

• Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

  BTech, Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering

• Texas A&M University

  Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Ocean Engineering