Venkatesh Narayanmurthy, Harvard University
Frontiers in Nanoscience and Technology

Venkatesh ("Venky") Narayanamurti is Dean of Engineering and Applied Sciences and the John A. and Elizabeth S. Armstrong Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University. He is also the Dean of Physical Sciences and a Professor in the Harvard Physics Department. From January 1992 to September 1998 he served as the Richard A. Auhll Professor and Dean of Engineering, as well as Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering, at the University of California at Santa Barbara. He was Vice President of Research and Exploratory Technology at Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, from May 1987 to January 1992. He joined Bell Laboratories in 1968 and became Director of Solid State Electronics Research in 1981. He has published widely in the areas of low temperature physics, superconductivity, semiconductor electronics and photonics. He is credited with developing the field of phonon optics -- the manipulation of monoenergetic acoustic beams at terahertz frequencies. He is currently very active in the field of semiconductor nanostructures.

Narayanamurti is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences. He is also a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the IEEE, and the Indian Academy of Sciences. Over the years he has served on numerous advisory boards of the federal government, research universities and industry. He currently serves on the Advisory Board for the University of California's Miller Institute for Basic Science, the Cornell University Engineering Dean's Leadership Council, the Advisory Board of the Mathematics and Physical Sciences Directorate of the National Science Foundation, and the Governing Board of the Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, Sandia National Laboratories. In addition to his duties as Dean and Professor, Narayanamurti lectures widely on solid state, computer, and communication technologies, and on the management of science, technology and public policy.

Arun Majumdar, University of California, Berkeley
Integrated Nanofluidic Devices and Circuits

Dr. Arun Majumdar holds the Almy and Agnes Maynard Professorship in Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley. He completed his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from UC Berkeley in 1989, and then served on the Mechanical Engineering faculties at Arizona State University (1989-92) and UC Santa Barbara (1992-96). He is a recipient of the NSF Young Investigator Award, the ASME Melville Medal, ASME Heat Transfer Division Best Paper Award, and 2001 ASME Gustus Larson Memorial Award. He is currently serving as an editor of the International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, and editor-in-chief of Microscale Thermophysical Engineering. He also serves as Director, Berkeley Nanoscience and Nanoengineering Institute; Member, Council on Materials Science and Engineering, US Department of Energy; and Member, Nanotechnology Technical Advisory Group to the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST). Dr. Majumdar served as founding Chair for the Board of Advisors, ASME Nanotechnology Institute from 2001-2005.

A member of the National Academy of Engineering, and a fellow of ASME and AAAS, Dr. Majumdar’s research focuses on thermal transport and energy conversion in solid state nanostructures, as well as nano and microfluidic applications in biotechnology.

Gerard B. Nash, The University of Birmingham
Studying Inflammatory Responses of Endothelial Cells and Leukocytes in Perfused Microchannels

Professor of Cardiovascular Rheology in the Division of Medical Sciences in the Medical School at the University of Birmingham. Previoulsy President of the International Society for Biorheolgy and Secretary of the International Society for Clinical Hemorheology. Expert in the mechanical properties of blood cells which affect their circulation, and in modelling the processes which influence the recruitment of leukocytes from the circulation into tissue. Have pioneered use of flow-based in vitro models in which endothelial cells can be cultured in capillaries, and the kinetics of each stage of leukocyte recruitment can be disected. Main research interest in the regulation of protective vascular inflammatory responses by the local physico-chemical environment, and how disruption of this finely tuned response leads to pathology.

Tom Krupenkin, Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies
Manipulating Liquids on the Tunable Nanostructured Surfaces

Tom Krupenkin is a Member of Technical Staff at Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies. He received Ph.D. in materials science from Moscow Institute for Physics and Engineering, Moscow, Russia in 1992 and Ph.D in physics from Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio in 1996. He joined Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies in 1998 after working for two years at Materials Research Laboratory, University of California, Santa Barbara. He holds 15 US patents and authored over 30 publications. His current research is focused on physics and chemistry of liquid-solid interaction, nanostructured surfaces, as well as on development of nano and microfluidic devices.

Mark Davies, Stokes Research Institute, University of Limerick, Stokes Bio Ltd.
Microfluidics and Personalised Medicine

Mark Davies received his PhD from Cambridge University in 1985 on unsteady aerodynamics in jet engine fan flows. He has worked in the Univeristy of Limerick since 1989 where he is founder Director of the Stokes Research Institute. His research has traversed gas dynamics and microelectronic cooling to reach his present interests in microfluidic designs for cancer diagnostics. Mark Davies and Tara Dalton are the co-founders of Stokes Bio Ltd. started to commercially exploit their diagnostic research.

Tara Dalton, Stokes Research Institute, University of Limerick, Stokes Bio Ltd.
Microfluidics and Personalised Medicine

Tara Dalton received her PhD from the University of Limerick in 1997 on free convection heat transfer in air filled enclosures. She presently directs the Biofluidics group at the Stokes Research Institute and is overall Assistant Director. She returns an interest in electronic cooling but is presently focused upon cancer diagnostics. Mark Davies and Tara Dalton are the co-founders of Stokes Bio Ltd. started to commercially exploit their diagnostic research.

Richard Bergman, Corning Incorporated
Numerical Mixing Analysis of a Vaned Circular Micromixer

Richard Bergman is an Engineering Associate with Corning Incorporated's Modeling and Simulation group. In his 20 years with Corning, he has developed and implemented techniques of fluid flow simulation and process development in the glass industry, contributing to numerous successful furnace designs. His expertise in fluid flow simulation is currently being applied to laminar mixing and microfluidic process development, as well as improving ceramics thermal process understanding.

Mr. Bergman has represented Corning on the International Congress on Glass Technical Committee #21 on mathematical modeling of glass furnaces. His articles have appeared in such varied publications as Lab on a Chip and Microwave and Optical Technology Letters (MOTL). He received his Master's Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY.

Juergen J. Brandner, Institute for Micro Process Engineering IMVT, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe
Microstructure Heat Exchanger Applications in Laboratory and Industry

Dr.-Ing. Juergen J. Brandner, born 1967 in Heidelberg, Germany. Studies of Chemistry (University of Heidelberg) and Electrical Engineering (Karlsruhe Technical University). Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at Karlsruhe Technical University. Currently head of the Thermal Micro Process Engineering Research Department of the Institute for Micro Process Engineering IMVT of Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Germany. Research in modelling, design, manufacturing and application of microstructure devices for heat transfer, chemical reactions and related topics.

Special interests include enhanced and optimized heat transfer, pressure drop and flow behaviour, phase transition, fouling and blocking problems, sensor integration, combination of bio- and nanotechnology with microstructure devices, manufacturing techniques, thermal unsteady-state chemical reactions (all performed with microscale devices), transfer of microstructure technology into industrial applications.

Adrian Briggs, Queen Mary, University of London
Surface Tension Effects in Condensation on Mini- and Micro-Fins

Obtained PhD from University of London in 1991, studying condensation heat transfer on integral-fin tubes; Research interests include experimental and theoretical studies of two phase flow and heat transfer including heat transfer enhancement; Member of the UK Heat Transfer Committee. Associate Editor of the Int J Heat Mass Transfer; IMechE representative to the Assembly of International Heat Transfer Conferences.

Andres L. Carrano, Rochester Institute of Technology
Fundamental Issues Related to Surface Roughness Effects in Fluid Flow Applications in Minichannels and Microchannels

Andres Carrano is an Assistant Professor in Industrial and Systems Engineering and Director of the Brinkman Machine Tools Lab at Rochester Institute of Technology. He earned a Ph.D. from North Carolina State University. His current research interests lie in the areas of surface metrology, manufacturing processes and systems, as well as in sustainable product development. He is a senior member of both the Society of Manufacturing Engineering and the Institute of Industrial Engineering, and regularly participates in the ASME meetings on the B46.1 Surface Roughness Standards.

Satish G. Kandlikar, Rochester Institute of Technology
Fundamental Issues Related to Surface Roughness Effects in Fluid Flow Applications in Minichannels and Microchannels

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 current work focuses on the heat transfer and fluid flow phenomena in microchannels and minichannels. He is involved in advanced single-phase and two-phase heat exchangers incorporating smooth, rough and enhanced microchannels. He has published over 130 journal and conference papers. He is a fellow member of ASME and has been the organizer of the three international conferences on Microchannels and Minichannels sponsored by ASME. He is a recipient of the Eisenhart Outstanding Teaching award, IBM Faculty award, ASME Best Paper Award, and Journal of Heat Transfer Best Reviewer Award. 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.

Lawrence Kennedy, University of Illinois at Chicago
Carbon Nanotubes, Synthesis, Growth and Orientation Control

Dr. Kennedy is Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Dean Emeritus at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Prior to joining UIC in 1995, he was the Ralph W. Kurtz Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering at The Ohio State University. During the period 1983 - 1993 he served as Chairman of the OSU’s Department of Mechanical Engineering and guided the significant growth of the department's academic and research programs. Prior to joining Ohio State, he was on the faculty of the State University of New York Buffalo. He has been a Visiting Professor at Princeton University, the University of Michigan, the Von Karman Institute of Fluid Dynamics, and the University of California / San Diego.

He has over 200 archival publications and more than 200 other scientific publications. He is the co-author of the text” Plasma Physics and Engineering”.

Professor Kennedy is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). He is a member of the Combustion Institute, the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE), the American Society of Engineering Education and is a registered Professional Engineer in the State of New York. Professor Kennedy currently serves as Editor in Chief of the J of Experimental Thermal and Fluid Sciences.

Yves Fouillet, LETI, French Atomic Energy Commission (CEA)
Droplet Handling by Electrostatic Actuation for Lab on a Chip Applications

Yves Fouillet is a senior scientist at LETI, which is a laboratory of the French Atomic Energy Commission (CEA). He received his PhD degree from Institut Notional Polytechnique de Grenoble, France, in 1992. Then, he joined LETI and worked on micro system technology for sensor and actuator development. Since 1998, he has worked on microfluidics mainly for lab on a chip applications. His current research interests include two phases flow, droplets handling by electrostatic field, electrowetting, and manufacturing process design and development for biological applications.

Oleg Kabov, Heat Transfer International Research Institute of Universite Libre de Bruxelles and Institute of Thermophysics of Russian Academy of Sciences
Cooling of Microelectronics by Shear-Driven Liquid Films

Prof. Oleg A. Kabov graduated from the Tomsk polytechnic State University, Russia, in 1978 and received the Ph.D. degree in the technical sciences from the Institute of Thermophysics of Russian Academy of Sciences (Novosibirsk) in 1987. In 1999 he received the degree of Doctor of Sciences in Physics and Mathematics from the same institute. Since 1987, he has been the Head of Laboratory of Enhancement of Heat Transfer in IT RAS. His current research interests include the areas of heat transfer in thin shear-driven and falling liquid films, cooling systems of microelectronics, physics of two-phase flows in microgravity, as well as convective and vapor space condensation. Since 2000 he also has being involved in an intensive collaboration with a Research Staff of the Microgravity Research Center of the Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. He is currently serving as a co-director of the joint Heat Transfer International Research Institute of ULB and IT RAS that was created in Brussels recently.

Sung Jin Kim, KAIST, Daijeon, Korea
Modeling and Sensing Techniques for Thermal Analysis of Microchannel Heat Sinks

Sung Jin Kim is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology). He received his Ph.D. degree in 1989 from Ohio State University in the United States of America and worked at Thermal Engineering Center of IBM in Tucson, Arizona until he joined KAIST in 1997. His main research interests include microscale heat transfer and fluid flow, cooling technology for electronic packages, optimum design of heat transfer devices, and convection heat transfer in porous media. He edited a book entitled Air Cooling Technology for Electronic Equipment. He is a member of K16 committee of ASME and an Associate Editor of Journal of Porous Media and International Journal of Transport Phenomena.

Norbert Kockmann, University of Freiburg
Micro Process Engineering - Actual State and Challenges

Dr.-Ing. Norbert Kockmann works as a research assistant and group leader for micro process engineering at the Laboratory for Design of Microsystems at the Department of Microsystems Engineering (IMTEK) of the University of Freiburg, Germany. After his diploma study of aerospace engineering at the Technical University of Munich, he finished his PhD thesis on fouling at the Bremen University, Chair of Technical Thermodynamics, Heat and Mass Transfer. Thereafter he worked as a project manager at Messer Griesheim GmbH for the design and construction of air separation units and a syngas plant until 2001. His actual research interests include the design, fabrication, and experimental characterization of micro process engineering devices as well as the fundamental processes in microsystems. He works on several research projects on transport phenomena, heat and mass transfer, multiphase flow, mixing, and chemical reactions in micro channels. Dr. Kockmann is member of the VDI, of the GVC, and the DECHEMA.

Wing T. Lai, TSI Incorporated
Investigation of the Three-Dimensional Measurement Techniques for Microchannel Flows

Dr. Wing T. Lai is the Product manager for the Fluid Mechanics products at TSI Incorporated. He received his MS and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Minnesota with focus of heat transfer and fluid flows. His expertise is the development of laser based instrumentation for fluid flow measurements and particle diagnostics. Some of the recent developments are in the area of global imaging for the measurements of velocity, concentration, temperature and combustion species using the PIV and PLIF techniques.

Kenneth T. Christensen, University of Illinois
Investigation of the Three-Dimensional Measurement Techniques for Microchannel Flows

Prof. Kenneth T. Christensen received an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering in 1996 from Caltech and a Ph.D. in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics in 2001 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He was an assistant professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of New Mexico prior to his current position as an assistant professor in the Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research interests include turbulence, microscale flows, cardiovascular fluid dynamics, multiphase flows and advanced experimental methods.

Stamatios Pothos, TSI Incorporated
Investigation of the Three-Dimensional Measurement Techniques for Microchannel Flows

Dr. Stamatios Pothos has been a Regional Sales Manager with TSI Inc. for the last 5 years. He received his Ph.D. degree from the Dept. of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics at the University of Minnesota, US in 2002 working in the area of particle-laden flows. He has been working extensively in the area of experimental fluid dynamics for the last 10 years (received his postgraduate Diploma from von Karman Institute for Fluid Mechanics, Brussels, Belgium in 1996 working in the area of Holographic PIV) and he has a great expertise on the application of laser based optical techniques (LDV, PIV, High frame rate PIV and micro PIV) in both single and two phase flows.

Stephen R. Lasky, Institute for Systems Biology, University of Washington
Systems Biology, a Synergistic Integration of Biology, Engineering, and Computation

Dr. Lasky is an established molecular biologist who worked with Dr. Hood as laboratory and operations manager at the University of Washington. He has extensive experience in molecular biology, and with Dr. Hood, has built teams to carry out high-throughput DNA sequencing, DNA microarrays, cancer studies, comparative genomics, and is responsible for establishing the Technology Development group that is working on ink-jet microarrays. He was one of the first scientists to join Dr. Hood at the Institute for Systems Biology and took primary responsibility for putting the computational systems in place, helping to build the IT team to meet the future computational needs of the scientists at the ISB. His current role is again operations and laboratory manager for Dr. Hood's groups as well as being Director of Technology Development. He is committed to the outreach programs being developed at the ISB, and participates in educational forums to bring latest technologies to students and faculty at small colleges and public schools in the Seattle area.

Xin-Gang Liang, Tsinghua University
Effects of Interfacial Interaction Between Fluid and Solid Wall on Microscale Flows

Prof. Xin-Gang Liang is the executive dean of the School of Aerospace, Tsinghua University. Professor Liang is an associate editor of Microscale Thermophysics Engineering, an Associate Editor of International Journal of Thermal Sciences. His major research interests include microscale heat transfer, heat transfer enhancement techniques, thermal analyses and simulation of MEMS and electronic devices and thermal control and management of space vehicles. He has published more 80 journal papers.

Raj Manglik, University of Cincinnati
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, a UC Fellow, 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 175 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, boiling heat transfer, enhanced heat/mass transfer, compact heat exchangers, 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.

Sushanta K. Mitra, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Micro-Scale Analysis, Fabrication and Characterization of Devices in SMA µLo IIT Bombay

Sushanta K. Mitra received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from University of Waterloo, Canada. He worked in the Nuclear Safety Analysis Division of Ontario Power Generation, Toronto. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. He is also a registered Profession Engineer of Ontario, Canada.

Silvia Nedea, Technical University Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Novel Hybrid Simulations for Heat Transfer at Atomistic Level

Silvia Nedea did her Phd on analysis, modelling and simulations of catalytic reactions in Technical University Eindhoven, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science. After obtaining her doctorate, she worked in Mechanical Engineering on a project in collaboration with Philips Research and Biomedical Engineering (TU/e) on "Heat transfer on micro-scale". In this project a new hybrid simulation method was developed, coupling two molecular models, Molecular Dynamics and Monte Carlo for the stationary properties of a gas confined between the walls of a micro-channel. The simulation results are used for comparison with experimental heat flow predictions in an experimental set-up in Philips Research.

Yoav Peles, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Cavitation and Heat Transfer in Microchannels

Yoav Peles is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI). He has been with RPI since 2002, where his main research effort is to develop new microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) based cooling concepts and extend fundamental knowledge of phase change (boiling and cavitation) and single-phase flows in micro systems. Professor Peles received the Ph.D. degree from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, in 2000. He then accepted a post-doctoral research associate position with the micro engine project at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), which he held for 1½ years. He was then promoted to a research engineer before joining RPI. A position he had held for one year. Professor Peles is the recipient of the 2005 ONR Young Investigator Award.

Y. Takata, Kyushu University
Surface Wettability Effects in Heat and Fluid Flow

Dr. Takata received his B.E., M.E., and D.E. at Kyushu University. After receiving his education, he became an associate professor then onto become a Professor at Kyushu University. Some Dr. Takata's field of interests includes the effect of surface wettability on phase-change phenomena and stability of superconductors. Dr. Takata is a member of Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers and is the editor in chief of The Journal of Thermal Science and Technology.

Chien-Yuh Yang, National Central University
Advanced Micro Heat Exchangers for High Heat Flux

Chien-Yuh Yang is currently a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the National Central University, Taiwan. He received his PhD from the Pennsylvania State University in 1995, and then joined the National Central University in 1996. His current research interests include heat transfer exchanger design, two-phase heat transfer, heat transfer enhancement and micro-scale heat transfer. He has published more than 50 journal and conference papers, one textbook and three micro heat exchanger related patents.

Yitshak Zohar, University of Arizona
Integrated Sensors and Boundary Conditions in Microchannel Convective Heat Transfer

Yitshak Zohar is a Professor in the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Arizona. He received his Ph.D. degree in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Southern California in 1990. As a Research Associate at USC and UCLA, 1990-1992, he gradually shifted his research interest into microsystem. He joined the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology as a faculty member in 1992 working on MEMS research until moving to UA at the end of 2003. His research interests included the science and technology of microsystems; in particular microscale fluid mechanics and convective heat transfer. Since 2000, he has been on working on microfluidic applications in BioMEMS. He has authored a book entitled Heat Convection in Micro Ducts. He is a fellow member of ASME and has been on the organizing committee of the International MEMS conference since 2000. He is an Associate Editor of Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems and Sensors & Actuators.