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 Robert W. Barber
Challenges in Modelling Gas-Phase Flow in Microchannels: From Slip to Transition
Dr Robert Barber is the Associate Director of C3M - the Centre for Microfluidics and Microsystems Modelling at CCLRC Daresbury Laboratory, Warrington, UK. He graduated with a first-class honors degree in Engineering from the University of Salford and then studied for a Ph.D. in Computational Fluid Dynamics. In 1990, he was appointed as a Lecturer in Engineering Fluid Mechanics at the University of Salford, specializing in macro-scale hydrodynamics and coastal engineering. He served as a committee member of the British Section of the International Association for Hydraulic Research from 1993 to 1996 and became involved in the development of novel Eulerian-Lagrangian discrete vortex algorithms for simulating low Reynolds number separated flows. In January 2000, he joined the newly established Centre for Microfluidics and Microsystems Modelling at CCLRC Daresbury Laboratory, specializing in low Reynolds number hydrodynamics and the numerical modelling of non-equilibrium gas-phase flows in miniaturized devices. His research activities also include the simulation of micro-reactors and rapid mixing devices for high-throughput life-science applications, air-segmented and capillary-driven liquid handling systems, electro-osmotic/electro-phoretic systems and ultrasonic particle separation devices. During his time at Daresbury Laboratory, he has worked on a range of industrial and academic research projects funded by EPSRC, MRC and European Framework programs.
 Andres Carrano
Review of Microfabrication Technology and Characterization of Roughness Elements on Microfabricated Surfaces
Andres Carrano is an Assistant Professor in the Industrial and Systems Engineering Department at Rochester Institute of Technology in New York. Andres is the Director of the CNC Brinkman Manufacturing Laboratory at RIT. He received a BS in Industrial Engineering from the Catholic University in Venezuela, an MS and Ph.D. in from North Carolina State University. His current research interests include surface metrology and characterization. He is a Senior Member of the Society of Manufacturing Engineering (SME) and Senior Member of the Institute of Industrial Engineering.
 Alberto Cavallini
Update on Condensation Heat Transfer and Pressure Drop Inside Minichannels
Alberto Cavallini is full professor of Energy Science at the Engineering Faculty of the University of Padova. He is the former President of the Scientific Council of the International Institute of Refrigeration of Paris (1996-2003; he is Honorary President of the same Institution. His research activity regards the fields of energy management, heat transfer, refrigeration and air-conditioning with particular reference to problems related with the refrigerant substitution issue. He is author or co-author of more than 180 scientific and technical publications, most of them appeared in the international scientific literature, and of five textbooks. He is the 2002 recipient of the J&E Hall Gold Medal of the UK Institute of Refrigeration for noteworthy contribution in the advancement of refrigeration technology. He has been scientific responsible for several research projects, funded by national and international organizations.
 Daniel T. Chiu
Daniel T. Chiu is currently an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at the University of Washington in Seattle. He received his B.S. in Chemistry (1993) and B.A. in Neurobiology (1993) from the University of California at Berkeley, then a Ph.D in Chemistry from Stanford University (1998). He worked as a postdoctoral associate at Harvard University from 1998 to 2000, and became an Assistant Professor in 2000 at the University of Washington. His research has focused on developing new tools - based on techniques in laser-based high-resolution microscopy, micro and nanofluidics, and single-molecule manipulation and detection - to interface with biological systems at the nanometer scale.
 David Emerson
Challenges in Modelling Gas-Phase Flow in Microchannels: From Slip to Transition
Dr David Emerson is the Director of C3M - the Centre for Microfluidics and Microsystems Modelling at CCLRC Daresbury Laboratory. He graduated with a first-class joint honors degree in Applied Mathematics and Physics from the University of Cardiff and spent several years working in the aerospace industry before studying for his Ph.D. in the Department of Aeronautics at Manchester University. This work involved the use of Computational Fluid Dynamics to investigate unsteady flow phenomena associated with separation. He completed his Ph.D. in 1990 and joined CCLRC Daresbury Laboratory to support the engineering community in making more extensive use of high performance computing and specifically target the use of parallel computers. In 1996, he became Head of the Computational Engineering Group. He has been working in the field of CFD for over 15 years and recently his research has focused on modeling fluid flows in micron-sized devices. In 1999, he established the Centre for Microfluidics and Microsystems Modelling at Daresbury Laboratory and the Centre has subsequently developed significant expertise in microfluidics. During his time at Daresbury Laboratory he has worked on a range of industrial and academic research projects with EPSRC, MRC, BAE Systems, ICI, and European Framework programs. He is a Chartered Engineer and a Chartered Physicist.
 Teruo Fujii
Processing and Analyzing Biological Samples in Microchannel
Professor Fujii earned his Ph.D. degree in Engineering from the University of Tokyo in 1993. He then joined the Institute of Industrial Science at the University of Tokyo as a TOYOTA endowed Associate Professor chair. Currently he is an Associate Professor at the Underwater Technology Research Center in the Institute of Industrial Science. He is a very active member of the microscale research team.
Tohru Fukano
Fundamental Data on the Gas-Liquid Two-Phase Flow in Minichannel
Professor Fukano graduated in 1970 from Kyushu University, where he has been a faculty member. In 1981 he worked with Professor Chang Lien-Tien for one year. He is currently working in the area of two-phase flow in Kurume Institute of Technology.
 Mohamed Gad-el-Hak
Differences Between Liquid and Gas Flows at the Microscale
Mohamed Gad-el-Hak received his B.Sc. (summa cum laude) in mechanical engineering from Ain Shams University in 1966 and his Ph.D. in fluid mechanics from the Johns Hopkins University in 1973. Gad-el-Hak has since taught and conducted research at the University of Southern California, University of Virginia, Institute National Polytechnique de Grenoble, Université de Poitiers and Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, and has lectured extensively at seminars in the United States and overseas. Dr. Gad-el-Hak is currently the Inez Caudill Eminent Professor of Biomedical Engineering and chair of mechanical engineering at Virginia Commonwealth University. Dr. Gad-el-Hak has published over 400 articles, authored/edited 9 books and conference proceedings, and presented 245 invited lectures. He is the author of the book “Flow Control: Passive, Active, and Reactive Flow Management,” and editor of the books “Frontiers in Experimental Fluid Mechanics,” “Advances in Fluid Mechanics Measurements,” “Flow Control: Fundamentals and Practices,” and “The MEMS Handbook.” Professor Gad-el-Hak is a fellow of the American Physical Society, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and the American Academy of Mechanics. In 1998, Professor Gad-el-Hak was named the Fourteenth ASME Freeman Scholar. In 1999, Gad-el-Hak was awarded the prestigious Alexander von Humboldt Prize, Germany’s highest research award for senior U.S. scientists and scholars in all disciplines. In 2002, Gad-el-Hak was named ASME Distinguished Lecturer, as well as inducted into the Johns Hopkins University Society of Scholars.
 Ken Goodson
Two-Phase Microfluidics for Semiconductor Circuits and Fuel Cells
Ken Goodson is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. He received the Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from MIT in 1993 and worked with the Materials Group at Daimler-Benz AG on power transistor cooling. He has been with Stanford since 1994, where his research group now includes twenty students and research associates. His group has authored more than one hundred and thirty journal and conference papers, six book chapters, and two books, and has been recognized through the ONR Young Investigator Award, the NSF CAREER Award, the Journal of Heat Transfer Outstanding Reviewer Award, a JSPS Visiting Professorship at the Tokyo Institute of Technology (1996), as well as Best Paper Awards at SEMI-THERM (2001), the Multilevel Interconnect Symposium (1998), and SRC TECHCON (1998). In 2001 Goodson co-founded Cooligy, which develops electro-osmotic microcooling technology for computers.
 Zeng-Yuan Guo
Thermal Effects on Fluid Flow in Mini/Micro Channel
Professor Zeng-Yuan Guo was born in Jiangsu, China, in 1936. He is Professor of Engineering Mechanics at The Tsinghua University, Chairman of Chinese Society of Heat Transfer, Fellow of American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Member of Executive Committee of International Center for Heat and Mass Transfer, and Assembly Member of International Conference of Heat Transfer. He is Editor of Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science, Member of Editorial Board for International Journal of Multiphase Flow, as well as Member of Editorial Board for Microscale Thermophysical Enigeering. His current research interests include microscale flow and heat transfer, thermo-fluid dynamics, heat transfer enhancement, molecular dynamics simulation, etc. He has published two books and over two hundred papers.
 Satish G. Kandlikar
High Flux Heat Removal With Microchannels – A Roadmap of Challenges and Opportunities
Satish Kandlikar is the Gleason Professor of Mechanical Engineering at RIT. He received his Ph.D. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology in Bombay in 1975 and has been a faculty there before coming to RIT in 1980. His research is mainly focused in the area of flow boiling and advanced single-phase chip cooling. After investigating the flow boiling phenomena from an empirical standpoint, which resulted in widely accepted correlations for different geometries, he started to look at the problem from a fundamental perspective. Using the high speed photography techniques, he demonstrated that small bubbles are released at a high frequency under flow conditions. His current work involves stabilizing flow boiling in microchannels, interface mechanics during rapid evaporation, and advanced chip cooling with single-phase liquid flow. He has published over 100 journal and conference papers. He is a fellow member of ASME and has been the organizer of the two international conferences on Microchannels and Minichannels sponsored by ASME. He is the founder of the ASME Heat Transfer chapter in Rochester and founder and first Chairman of the E-cubed fair - science and engineering fair for middle school students in celebration of the Engineers Week. He is the Heat and History Editor for Heat Transfer Engineering journal and an Associate Editor for Journal of Heat Transfer and Journal of Nanofluidics and Microfluidics.
 Masahiro Kawaji
The Effects of Inlet Geometry on Gas-Liquid Two-phase Flow in Microchannels
Masahiro Kawaji is a Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry at the University of Toronto. He received B.A.Sc. from the University of Toronto in 1978, M.S. (1979) and Ph.D. (1984) from the University of California, Berkeley. In the past eighteen years at the University of Toronto, Professor Kawaji has conducted both fundamental and applied research covering various multi-phase flow and heat transfer problems including those related to nuclear and chemical reactors, heat exchangers, Kraft Recovery boilers, mini and microchannels, microgravity-related phenomena, and ice-slurry production and utilization. His work has been published in more than 150 refereed journal and conference papers. He is serving on scientific committees of the International Center for Heat and Mass Transfer and many international conferences. For his contributions, he received Jules Stachiewics Medal from the Chemical Institute of Canada. He is also serving as a regional editor of International Journal of Transport Phenomena and on the editorial boards of International Journal of Multiphase Flow and Journal of Process Mechanical Engineering.
 Michael R. King
Microchannels as Models of Pathophysiological Blood Cell Adhesion
Michael R. King received a B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Rochester, and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame. Following two years as an Individual NIH/NRSA postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania, King was appointed as an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Rochester. He currently holds secondary appointments in the Department of Chemical Engineering, and the Biophysics & Structural Biology Cluster at Rochester. King is a 2003 Whitaker Investigator, and a 2004 James D. Watson Investigator of New York State. His research interests include biofluid mechanics and cell adhesion.
 David T. Leighton, Jr.
Hydrodynamic Dispersion in Microfluidic Geometries: Causes and Remedies
Dr. Leighton is the Associate Director of the Center for Microfluidics and Medical Diagnostics at the University of Notre Dame. He completed his BSE at Princeton University, and his MS and PhD at Stanford. Internationally known for his work on concentrated suspensions, his more recent interests have been in the area of transport and separation of large molecules and nanoparticles. Research in this area includes enhanced liquid membrane transport, dispersion and mixing in electrokinetic and pressure driven flows in microchannels, and a novel approach to preparative-scale electophoretic separation of nanoparticles. He is currently a Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Notre Dame.
 Raj M. Manglik
Molecular Dynamics of Surface-Active Additives and Micro-Scale Control of Interfacial Phenomena in Liquid-Vapor Ebullience
Dr. Raj M. Manglik (Ph.D., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; MS, Iowa State University; B.Tech., Indian Institute of Technology - Madras) is Professor of Mechanical Engineering, and Director of the Thermal-Fluids & Thermal Processing Laboratory at the University of Cincinnati. He is a Fellow of ASME, member of Sigma Xi, Tau Beta Pi, and ASHRAE, an editor of Journal of Heat Transfer, Journal of Enhanced Heat Transfer and International Journal of Heat Exchangers, and technical editor for Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow Data Book. He has been a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award (1995), as well as several teaching excellence and research achievement awards. He has over 135 technical publications (papers, reports, monograph, edited volumes, and book chapters), and given over 30 invited lectures. His work on molecular- and micro-scale characteristics of interfacial phenomena, enhanced heat/mass transfer, and thermal processing of rheologically complex fluid media is acknowledged world wide, and he has chaired or organized numerous symposia and conferences in these areas of research.
 Sohei Matsumoto
Researches of Heat and Mass Transfer Utilizing MEMS technology; Review of Recent Researches in Japan
Professor Matsumoto is a Senior Research Scientist at AIST. He was a Visiting Associate at Electrical Engineering, Caltech during 2002-2003, and then he joined as a Researcher at Mechanical Engineering Laboratory, AIST/MITI. He has earned his Ph.D. degree in Engineering from The University of Tokyo in 1994. His research interests include: MEMS fluidic devices, microscale heat & flow phenomena, Molecular Dynamics simulation of phase interfaces. He is a Member of JSME, Heat Transfer Society of Japan.
 Gian Luca Morini
Viscous Dissipation as A Scaling Effect for Laminar Single-Phase Flows in Microchannel
Gian Luca Morini graduated in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Bologna in 1992. He received a doctorate in Nuclear Engineering in 1996 from the University of Bologna with a PhD thesis on the analysis of the steady and unsteady laminar convective heat transfer through non-conventional channels. He started lecturing at the University of Ferrara in 1996. Since 2002, he is Associate Professor in Applied Thermal Engineering at the University of Bologna. His principal research interests lie in microfluidics and heat transfer through micro-channels for single-phase flows in laminar regime.
 Bradley J. Nelson
Micro and Nano Assembly Using Dielectrophoretic Forces
Brad Nelson is the Professor of Robotics and Intelligent Systems at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich and heads the Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems there. Prof. Nelson received a B.S. (Mechanical Engineering) from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1984, an M.S. (Mechanical Engineering) from the University of Minnesota in 1987, and the Ph.D. degree in Robotics (School of Computer Science) from Carnegie Mellon University in 1995. During these years he also worked as an engineer at Honeywell and Motorola, and served as a United States Peace Corps Volunteer in Botswana, Africa. In 1995 he became Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Associate Professor at the University of Minnesota in 1998, and Professor at ETH in 2002. His most recent scientific contributions have been in the area of microrobotics, biomicrorobotics, and nanorobotics, including efforts in robotic micromanipulation, microassembly, MEMS (sensors and actuators), mechanical manipulation of biological cells and tissue, and NanoElectroMechanical Systems (NEMS).
 Cengiz S. Ozkan
Stochastic Frequency Signature for Chemical Sensing via Noninvasive Neuronelectronic Interface
Cengiz S. Ozkan is Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of California, Riverside (UCR). He holds a Ph.D. degree in Materials Science and Engineering and a minor in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University (1997). After completing his doctoral studies, he joined Applied Micro Circuits Corporation in San Diego, CA, as a Senior Device Engineer. Concurrently, he served as a Lecturer for the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department and the Materials Science Program at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and as a Consulting Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. He is the Director of the Biomaterials and Nanotechnology Laboratory at UCR, and he is a member of the Center for Nanoscience Innovation for Defense and the Center for Functional Engineered Nano-Architectonics. His research areas include the synthesis of bio-nano systems including DNA-carbon nanotube complexes and applications in bottom-up assembly of nanosystems and nanosensors, cell based microarray biosensors and chemical vapor deposition of nanostructures including thin films and nanowires. He holds several US patents and more than 30 patent disclosures in the areas of electronics and biosensing. He has organized several symposiums for the Materials Research Society (MRS), American Chemical Society (ACS) and the American Society for Mechanical Engineers (ASME) in the areas of nanotechnology, MEMS and BioMEMS and he is a member of the Academic Affairs Committee of the MRS. He is a Principal Editor of the JMR (Journal for Materials Research), and he is a member of the Editorial Board for “Sensor Letters” and “Catalysis Today”.
 Björn Palm
Plate Heat Exchangers, Calculation Methods for Single- and Two-Phase Flow
Björn Palm is Senior Lecturer and Head of the Division of Applied Thermodynamics and Refrigeration at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, Sweden. His main research interests are heat transfer in narrow channels, enhanced boiling heat transfer, and compact heat exchangers, but include also heat pump systems and cooling of electronics. Dr. Palm got his Master’s degree in physics and chemistry from the University of Stockholm. He then continued pursuing his Ph.D. degree at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, on methods of enhancing boiling heat transfer in refrigeration and heat pump applications. Since his dissertation in 1991 he has been having different position at the Department of Applied Thermodynamics and Refrigeration at KTH and is since 1999 (shared) head of the division. Dr Palm has authored or co-authored more than 70 scientific publications mostly in the areas of heat transfer.
 Masahiro Shoji
Surface Tension Effects in Small-Scale Thermo-Fluid Systems
Masahiro Shoji is the professor Emeritus of The University of Tokyo and the invited research scientist of National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST, Tsukuba). He received B.E (1966), M.E.(1968) and D.E.(1971) from The University of Tokyo. His main research field has been boiling heat transfer. At present, he is engaging in the research and development of thermo-fluid micro systems and devices.
 Sang Young Son
Heterogeneous Condensation for Space Applications: Nanoparticle Condensation Nuclei in Microchannel
Dr. Sang Young Son is a staff scientist of National Center for Microgravity Research (NCMR) at NASA Glenn Research Center. After his receiving Ph.D. from Texas A&M University in 2000, he worked as a senior researcher at Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology in Korea, where he conducted researches in MEMS scale closed two-phase heat exchanger development and multi-phase thermofluidics. Since joining NCMR/NASA in 2002, he conducts researches related to PEM fuel cell thermal & water management and MEMS-based Condensate Nucleate Counter development with major research interest in capillary flow, phase-change phenomena, and microscale diagnostic technology development. He is holding two US patents and authorship of more than thirty journal and proceeding publication in the field of thermal and fluid dynamics.
 James B. Taylor
Review of Microfabrication Technology and Characterization of Roughness Elements on Microfabricated Surfaces
James B. Taylor is an Associate Professor of Industrial & Systems Engineering and Micro Systems Engineering at Rochester Institute of Technology. He received his Ph.D. in 1995 from Purdue University. His research interests are in the areas of engineering education, manufacturing process design and development, technology development and management, and rapid prototyping.
 Arno W. Tilles, MD
Engineering a Bioartificial Liver Device
Dr. Tilles is an Instructor in Surgery and Bioengineering at Harvard Medical School. He received a BS degree in Biology, a BS in Mechanical Engineering, and an MS in Biomedical Engineering, all from the University of Miami. He also received an MD from the University of Miami School of Medicine. He completed his internship and residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital. He then completed a research fellowship in Biomedical Engineering at the Center for Engineering in Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. He is a licensed physician in Massachusetts and Florida, and he is board certified in Internal Medicine by the American Board of Internal Medicine.
 Jung Yul Yoo
Recent Trends in the Visualization Studies of Interfacial Phenomena in Microchannels
Professor Yoo earned his B. S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Seoul National University in 1969, and M.S. degree from University of Minnesota in 1973 and Ph.D. degree from the same university in 1977. Currently he is a Professor at the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Seoul National University. He is an ASME Fellow member. He was the Chairman of the ASME Korea Section, President of the KSME (Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers) and President of the Korean Society of Visualization.
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