Pradeep Bansal, Auckland University, New Zealand Dr Pradeep Bansal is the Director of the "Energy & Fuels Research Unit" at the University of Auckland (New Zealand). His research domain includes fundamental heat transfer studies on natural refrigerants, development of simulation models, and design and development of energy efficient thermal systems. Currently he has been involved with establishing an innovative "Cascade Refrigeration Research Facility" at the University of Auckland using CO2 as the low stage refrigerant for achieving low temperatures (down to -50C) for food industry. He has been invited to work at several research institutions, including Building Equipment Technology Program (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA), and Ray W. Herrick Laboratories (Purdue Univer sity, USA). He has published over 160 technical papers, including 3 books. Avram Bar-Cohen, University of Maryland Avram Bar Cohen is Distinguished University Professor and Chair of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Maryland, where he continues his research in the thermal management of Micro/Nano systems. Bar-Cohen currently serves on the Steering Committee of ASME's Nanotechnology Institute and is the ASME representative for the US on the Assembly for International Heat Transfer Conferences (2002-2006) after having served as the Chair of the US Scientific Committee of the International Heat Transfer Assembly (1998-2002). In 2002 Bar-Cohen received the IEEE CPMT Society, Outstanding Sustained Technical Contributions Award, "for contributions to thermal design, modeling, and analysis and for original research on ebullient and liquid-phase cooling". This followed the 2000 ASME Worcester Reed Warner Medal, ".for outstanding contributions to the literature in the area of heat transfer." He was earlier recognized with the ASME Heat Transfer Memorial Award and the ASME Curriculum Innovation Award in 1999 (with S. Bhavnani and Y. Joshi), the ASME/IEEE ITHERM Achievement Award in 1998, ASME Edwin F. Church Medal in 1994, and the THERMI Award from the IEEE/Semi-Therm Conference in 1997. He is a Fellow of the ASME and of IEEE, a distinguished Lecturer for IEEE, was the Founding Chairman of the ITHERM Conference in 1988, and served as the General Chairman for the first InterPack (International Intersociety Packaging Conference) in 1995. Jacopo Buongiorno, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA J. Buongiorno (Nuc Eng PhD, MIT, 2000; Nuc Eng BS, Polytechnic of Milan, 1996) is Assistant Professor at the Nuclear Science and Engineering Department of MIT. His areas of technical expertise are fluid dynamics, heat transfer and two-phase flow. For his work in these areas Prof. Buongiorno won two awards: the Mark Mills Award of the American Nuclear Society in 2001 and the "best technical paper award" at the 8th International Conference of Nuclear Engineering in 2000. He is also the founder and director of the Center for Nanofluids Technology at MIT (http://mit.edu/nse/nanofluids) and the principal investigator for the nanofluid research program at MIT. Prof. Buongiorno teaches two graduate and one undergraduate classes in the reactor engineering, fluid dynamics and heat transfer areas, and is the recipient of the 2005 Graduate Teaching Award. He is a referee for Heat and Mass Transfer, Journal of Heat Transfer, International Journal of Multiphase Flow, Nuclear Technology, Nuclear Engineering and Design and Nuclear Science and Engineering. He has authored over 20 peer-reviewed conference papers and 13 articles in refereed scientific journals. Van P. Carey, University of California, Berkeley, USA Van P. Carey is a Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of California at Berkeley. He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1981. His research interests include applied statistical thermodynamics, molecular dynamics simulation of interfacial phenomena and microscale thermophysics of phase-change processes, boilin g and condensation of binary mixtures, and computer aided thermal design. He has authored or co-authored more than 145 technical publications, including two advanced textbooks: Liquid-Vapor Phase Change Phenomena (Taylor and Francis, 1992) and Statistical Thermodynamics and Microscale Thermophysics (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1999). Professor Carey is or has been an editor for several journals including the ASME Journal of Heat Transfer, Nanoscale and Microscale Thermophysical Engineering, and the International Journal of Transport Phenomena. He is currently serving as Secretary of the Executive Committee for the ASME Heat Transfer Division. Professor Carey is a Fellow of ASME and AAAS and is a recipient of the NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award and the Best Paper Award from the Heat Transfer Division of ASME. In 2004 he was named the recipient of the James Harry Potter Gold Medal from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. This award recognizes eminent achievement or distinguished service in the science of thermodynamics in mechanical engineering. Krishnendu Chakrabarty, Duke University, USA Krishnendu Chakrabarty received the B. Tech. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, in 1990, and the M.S.E. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 1992 and 1995, respectively, all in Computer Science and Engineering. He is now Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University. Dr Chakrabarty is a recipient of the National Science Foundation Early Faculty (CAREER) award and the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator award. His current research projects include: design and testing of system-on-chip integrated circuits; design automation of microfluidics-based biochips; microfluidics-based chip cooling; distributed sensor networks . Dr Chakrabarty has authored three books Microelectrofluidic Systems: Modeling and Simulation (CRC Press, 2002) and Test Resource Partitioning for System-on-a-Chip (Kluwer, 2002), Scalable Infrastructure for Distributed Sensor Networks (Springer, 2005)and edited the book volume SOC (System-on-a-Chip) Testing for Plug and Play Test Automation (Kluwer, 2002). He is also an author of two forthcoming books (to be published by CRC Press and Springer, respectively) on microfluidics-based biochips. He has published over 220 papers in archival journals and refereed conference proceedings. He holds a US patent in built-in self-test and is a co-inventor of a pending US patent on sensor networks. He is a recipient of best paper awards at the 2005 IEEE International Conference on Computer Design and 2001 IEEE Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE) Conference. He is also a recipient of the Humboldt Research Fellowship, awarded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany. Dr Chakrabarty is a Distinguished Visitor of the IEEE Computer Society for 2006-2007 and a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society for 2006-2007. He is an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and System I, ACM Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems , and an Editor of Journal of Electronic Testing: Theory and Applications (JETTA). He is a member of the editorial board for Microelectronics Journal, Sensor Letters, and Journal of Embedded Computing, and he serves as a subject area editor for the International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks. In the recent past, he has also served as an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Analog and Digital Signal Processing. He is a senior member of IEEE, a member of ACM and ACM SIGDA, and a member of Sigma Xi. He serves as Vice Chair of Technical Activities in IEEE's Test Technology Technical Council, and is a member of the program committees of several IEEE/ACM conferences and workshops. He is the chair of the emerging technologies subcommittee for the IEEE Int. Conf. CAD (2005-2006), and subcommittee for new, emerging, and specialized technologies for the 2006-2007 IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference. He served as Tutorials Chair for the 2005 IEEE International Conference on VLSI Design and Program Chair for the 2005 IEEE Asian Test Symposium. He is the designated Program Chair for the CAD, Design, and Test Conference for the 2007 IEEE Symposium on Design, Integration, Test, and Packaging of MEMS/MOEMS (DTIP'07). He delivered keynote talks at the International Conference & Exhibition on Micro Electro, Opto, Mechanical Systems and Components (Munich, Germany, October 2005), the International Conference on Design and Test of Integrated Systems (Tunis, Tunisia, September 2006), as well as invited talks on biochips CAD at several other conferences. Steven Day, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA Steven Day is an Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering at the Rochester Institute of Technology. His research applies experimental and computational fluid mechanics to biological flows, ranging from naturally occurring to engineered systems. Past and current research topics have included fluid flows through lung bifurcations and implantable blood pumps and flows generated by feeding fish. Prior to joining the faculty at RIT, he attended the von Karman Institute of Fluid Dynamics in Belgium and obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia. He subsequently conducted postdoctoral research at the University of California - Davis in the Division of Biological Sciences. Since joining RIT in 2005, he has focused on the design, fabrication, and testing of implantable blood pumps. Mohammed Farid, The University of Auckland, New Zealand Dr. Mohammed Farid is a Professor in the Chemical and Materials Engineering Department at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He received his MSc and PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Wales/ Swansea, UK in 1975 and 1977, respectively. His research interests include heat transfer with phase change applied to both energy and food processing applications. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers, London and member of many other professional institutions. He has more than 170 publications in refereed journals and international conferences, including 4 patents, 4 books, and a number of chapters in books. He is well known for his work on energy storage with phase change, a principle he is applying to improve the performance of microchannel heat exchangers. James Gilchrist, Lehigh University, USA Dr. Gilchrist is Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, PA. He is a member of the Center for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology and serves on the executive board of the Lehigh Nanotechnology Network. He received his B.S. from Washington University in 1997 and Ph.D. from Northwestern University in 2003. Prior to joining LU in 2004, he was a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at University of Illinois, Urbana. His research interests focus on particulate systems ranging from nanometers to meters including suspension transport, microfluidics, nanoparticle self-assembly, chaotic mixing and granular flows. Jayant Kapat, Lockheed Martin Professor of Engineering, University of Central Florida Jayanta S. Kapat is the Lockheed Martin Professor of Engineering at the University of Central Florida. He received his Sc.D. degree from MIT in 1991, and joined UCF in 1997 as an Assistant Professor. His current work focuses on advanced cooling technology and aerodynamics in turbines, cooling techniques for motor/generators, miniature energy systems, and nano-scale flow and heat transfer. He is currently the Chair of the Energy Systems Miniaturization committee of ASME's Advanced Energy Systems Division, and also a member of Gas Turbine Heat Transfer committee. He is also the founding director of the Center for Advanced Turbines and Energy Research. It is primarily for his efforts and for the research conducted by him and others at UCF, Siemens Power Generation has set up a Siemens Center of Excellence at UCF. Satish Kumar, Chemical Engineering and Material Science Department, University of Minnesota Satish Kumar is an assistant professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at the University of Minnesota. He earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Minnesota (1993), and master's (1994) and doctoral (1998) degrees from Stanford University, all in chemical engineering. After a postdoctoral period at the Ecole Normale Superieure (Paris) and the University of Michigan, he joined the faculty at Minnesota in January 2001. Prof. Kumar's research program is centered around the investigation of fundamental problems in transport and interfacial phenomena, many of which are motivated by nanofluidic and microfluidic systems. Problems of interest often involve deformable interfaces and rheologically complex materials, and are a ddressed using a combination of continuum and molecular theory. V.V. Kuznetsov, Russian Institute of Science, Russia Dr. Vladimir V. KUZNETSOV is a head of Department of Engineering Thermophysics and Laboratory of Multiphase System at the Institute of Thermophysics Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences. He is Professor of Physical Department of Novosibirsk State University. He was awarded PhD (1978) and DSc (1995) at Institute of Thermophysics Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences. His current research interests are concerned with the study of capillarity, fluid dynamics, heat and mass transfer in multiphase and multicomponent flows, flows in porous media, including boiling, condensation, evaporation, vapor explosion and chemical reactions in microchannels and microchambers. Prof. Kuznetsov has published more then 140 articles covering a variety of topics. He is Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Engineering Thermophysics. Gwo-Bin Lee, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan Gwo-Bin Lee received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Department of Mechanical Engineering from National Taiwan University in 1989 and 1991, respectively. He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering from University of California, Los Angeles, USA in 1998. Dr. Gwo-Bin Lee is currently a Full Professor in the Department of Engineering Science at National Cheng Kung University. His research interests lie on nano-biotechnology, micro/nanofluidics and their biomedical applications. Dr. Lee has published over 80 SCI journal papers, 240 conference papers, and received 30 patents. Currently, he serves as Associate Editor of IEE Proceedings of Bionanotechnology, Member of Editorial Advisory Board of Recent Patents on Nanotechnology, and Chair for the Technical Committee on Nanosensors and Nanoactuators for the IEEE Nanotechnology Council. Chii-Wann Lin, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, NTU, Taiwan Chii-Wann Lin received his B.S. from Department of Electrical Engineering, National Cheng-Kung University in 1984. He obtained a M.S. degree from the Institute of Biomedical Engineering, National Yang-Ming University in 1986. After completing a two-year compulsory military service, he attended Case Western Reserve University where he received his Ph.D. degree in Biomedical Engineering in January1993. After an eight month postdoctoral position as a Research Associate in the Neurology Department at CWRU, he joined the Center for Biomedical Engineering, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University in Sept. 1993. Since 1998, he has been an Associate Professor at the Institute of Biomedical Engineering. Currently, he holds a joint appointment at the Department of Electrical Engineering, NTU. He is a member of IEEE EMBS, IFMBE and Chinese BMES. His research interests include biomedical micro-sensors, optical biochips, surface plasmon resonance, and nano-medicine. Shirish Mulay, Lexmark Inc., USA Shirish Mulay is a graduate of the Indian Institute of technology, Powai. He received his Bachelors & Masters degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Powai. Subsequently he received his Ph.D. from Illinois Institute of Technology in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. He has specialized in heat transfer and porous media. He taught for about eight years and for the last eleven years he has been working for Lexmark International (a printing company). He is a senior engineer at Lexmark and holds 6 patents (and another 6 patents are pending approval) in the area of Inkjet technology. He has published a number papers of and is a member of American Society of Mechanical Engineers and a member of Society for Imaging Science and Technology. He has chaired sessions in Electronics Cooling at ASME conferences for the last 12 years and has delivered a number of technology talks in USA and India. Naoki Ono, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan Naoki Ono received the B.S., M.S. and D.Eng. degrees in mechanical engineering from the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, in 1985, 1987 and 1998 respectively. From 1987 to 2002, he was with Mitsubishi Materials Corp., Japan, and from 2003 to 2005, was with SUMCO Corp., Japan, as a Research Engineer. In those companies his research topic was heat and fluid flow analysis of crystal growth process of semiconductor silicon including Marangoni effect. In 2005, he joined the faculty of the Mechanical Engineering Department, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan, as an associate professor. His current research is in heat and mass transfer in mini/micro channels, surface tension effects in microsystems, microfluidics and hydromachines in microscale. Cynthia Reinhart-King, Biomedical Engineering Department, Cornell University, USA Dr. Cynthia Reinhart-King received Bachelor's degrees in Biology and Chemical Engineering with a minor in Biomedical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She earned her doctorate in Bioengineering from the University of Pennsylvania while holding a prestigious fellowship from the Whitaker Foundation. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Cardiovascular Research Institute at the University of Rochester, and she is currently on the faculty of the Biomedical Engineering Department at Cornell University. Her research interests include mechanisms of tissue morphogenesis and biomaterial design, with specific focus on the cardiovascular system. Rene Reyes, Universidad de las Américas, Puebla, Mexico Dr René Reyes Mazzoco is Professor of the Chemical and Food Engineering Department at the Universidad de las Américas (México). His research domain includes applied heat transfer studies on enhancing heat transfer by mass-transfer effect in liquid mixtures, and through microscopic interconnected channels in porous coatings. Currently he has been involved with establishing an innovative "Experimental Research Facility on Heat Transfer Enhancement through Microchannels and Interfacial Phenomena" at the Universidad de las Américas. He has also developed several applied research projects on Water and Sanitation for All. A project entitled "Sustainable Water Management for an Industry" participated as a successful regional experience in the 4th World Water Forum (México, 16 to 22, 2006). His participation as advisor of the teams of students of the Universidad de las Américas in the Annual Environmental Design Contest (NMSU, Las Cruces) has produced several awards (Among them, the "Mike Berger Memorial Award", Outstanding Faculty Advisor, 2003; and the "Innovation Award", Intel Corporation, 2000). He has published over 50 technical papers, including 3 books. M. Schlüter, Institut fuer Umweltverfahrenstechnik, Germany Dr.-Ing. Michael Schlüter was born 1967 in Stadthagen, Germany and studied from 1988 to 1994 "Production Engineering" at the University of Bremen with the main subject "Chemical Engineering". He made his PhD in 2002 at the Institute of Environmental Process Engineering (IUV) in Bremen on the field of gas/liquid flows. Since 2000 Dr. Schlüter is working as assistant professor at the IUV. His group ?Reaction Technology? with five PhD students is doing basic research in the fields of hydrodynamics and mass transfer in multiphase flows on micro-, meso- and macro-scales. The design of new processes and reactors is the focus of his research together with industry partners e.g. Merck, Wacker or the BASF Company. J. Tegenfeldt, Lund University, Sweden Dr. Tegenfeldt earned his PhD at Lund University 1997 in nanotechnology, impedance spectroscopy and atomic force microscopy. He then moved to Princeton University for postdoctoral training where he pioneered electrode-less dielectrophoresis and DNA-stretching in nanochannels developing components for lab-on-a-chip devices. Tegenfeldt is the coauthor of 35 papers and two issued patents, and he has eleven invited presentations. Dr. Tegenfeldt earned a young investigator grant from the Swedish Research Council 2003 and moved back to Sweden to join the faculty of Lund University and to start up his own group with focus on separation devices and nanofluidics for DNA analysis. Website: http://nanobio.ftf.lth.se/~tegen/ Jeff Tza-Huei Wang, Mechanical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering, John Hopkins University, SUA Dr. Tza-Huei (Jeff) Wang received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from University of California, Los Angeles in 2002. After graduation, he joined the Johns Hopkins University as an assistant professor in the departments Mechanical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering. He has been pioneering new techniques for fluorescence-based single molecule detection (SMD) including single molecule fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET), microfluidics, and nanobiosensors. He has achieved sequence-specific DNA and point-mutation detection at the single-molecule level. His current research interest includes the development of quantum dot nanosensors, high-throughput drug screening, molecular diagnostics, and gene delivery systems. Dr. Wang received the NSF CAREER award in 2006. Peter Wayner, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA Peter Wayner is a Distinguished Research Professor in Chemical Engineering and was a Professor of Chemical Engineering at RPI during the period 1965-1998. He received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Northwestern University in 1963. His research interests include the study of the interfacial thermophysical principles underlying change-of phase heat transfer systems. He has authored or co-authored more than 160 technical publications. In 1985, Professor Wayner was the Chairman of the AIChE Heat Transfer and Energy Conversion Division. Professor Wayner is a Fellow of ASME and AIChE and a recipient of a Best Paper Award from ASME. In 1998, he was the recipient of the 1998 AIChE Heat Transfer and Energy Conversion Division Award and the 1998 Donald Q. Kern Award. Xing Zhang, Tsinghua University, China Professor ZHANG earned his PhD at Tsinghua University in 1988. He undertook post-doctoral training at the Institute of Advanced Material Study of Kyushu University, Japan in 1990 and then became an assistant professor there in 1991. He was promoted to be an associate professor at the Institute for Materials Chemistry and Engineering, Kyushu University in 2003 and to be a professor at Department of Engineering Mechanics, Tsinghua University in 2005. Professor Zhang has significant and creative contributions in researches on thermophysical properties of advanced materials, electronic cooling, and applications of ultrasonic techniques to thermal engineering. He has published over 140 journal and international conference papers. His recent researches are related to heat transfer and thermophysical properties at micro/nanoscale (such as individual carbon nanotubes and metallic nanofilms), thermoelectrical behaviors of metallic nanofilms and nanowires for on-chip Peltier cooling devices, and applications of renewable energy such as wind power and solar energy.