Sridhar Anandakrishnan is a professor in the Department of Geosciences at Penn State University. His research interests include reflection seismology, glaciology, and geophysics.

Anandakrishnan is a lead Principal Investigator on the GHOST project. He will travel to Antarctic to use seismic and radar methods on the ice to investigate and quantify the sediment, hydrology, and bedrock underlying Thwaites Glacier.

Anandakrishnan is also a co-investigator on the MELT project.