The award has been instituted by Ms. lndumati Srinivasan and Dr Seshadri Shekar Chakravarthy to establish an endowment in memory of their father, late Sri C S Sreenivasan, to award young faculty members in the development of Electric Engineering who are working in the power area (High Voltage, Power System and Power Electronics).
more information about his work can be found at https://sites.google.com/view/vishnu-mahadeva-iyer/