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Dr. Ahmad Arabkoohsar
Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
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Dr. Sarit Kumar Das
Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India
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Sarit K. Das is an Institute Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai. He is the first occupant of the V. Balakrishnan Chair Professorship at the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He is the former Director of the Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar and the former Dean (Research) of IIT Madras. The research group of Prof. Das works on various aspects of thermo fluidics like heat and mass transfer in industrial equipment such as heat exchangers and fuel cells, multiphase flow and energy conversion. Water management in PEM fuel cells and thermal management of battery stack are the two active areas in this direction. The group is known to be one of the leading groups on Nanofluids in the world. Another area of focus of the group is bio-microfluidics with the focus on medical diagnostics, developing organ-on-chip platforms for drug delivery and understanding physiological and pathological states related to cardiovascular diseases, renal transport and cancer metastasis. The group has also works on desalination techniques such as FCDI (Flow Electrode Capacitive Deionization) and HDH (Humidification and Dehumidification) systems. Prof. Das is a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI) and the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE). He was a Peabody Visiting Professor at MIT, Cambridge and a visiting Professor – Lund University, Sweden. He was conferred with the prestigious India Citation Awards 2012 by Thomson Reuters. He has published more than 450 research articles and six books. He is the most cited mechanical engineer of India. Prof. Das is a member of the editorial boards of Heat Transfer Engineering, Taylor & Francis Publishers.

Topic of Keynote: Water Management of A PEM Fuel Cell with Super-Hydrophobic Flow Channels, an Experimental and Computational Study
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Dr. Andrei G. Fedorov
Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
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Andrei G. Fedorov is Rae S. and Frank H. Neely Chaired Professor in the School of Mechanical Engineering and the Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Biosciences at Georgia Tech. His current research focuses on electron-beam-mediated nanomanufacturing, MEMS-enabled bioanalytical instrumentation, thermal management of high performance electronics, and power generation with synergetic CO2 capture (http://www.me.gatech.edu/faculty/fedorov). Fedorov authored/co-authored over 200 archival articles in premier technical journals. His research has led to development of new technologies for various applications, resulting in over 50 issued US patents and pending patent applications. For his inventions of biomedical devices, the World Technology Network (WTN), in cooperation with AAAS Science Magazine, CNN and leading technology companies, selected Fedorov as a WTN Associate and one of the twenty five “most innovative people and organizations in the science and technology world” nominated for the 2005 World Technology Award in Health and Medicine. He was recognized with the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Invention & Contribution Board Award for development of catalytic reactor technologies, as well as multiple inventor recognition awards from the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) and Microelectronics Advanced Research Corporation (MARCO).

Topic of Keynote: Extreme Dynamics of Nanoelectrospray Droplets in Complex Gas Flows to Enable New Modes of Direct-Write Nanomanufacturing
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Dr. Alamgir Karim
University of Houston, USA
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Dr. Wagdi George Habashi
McGill University, Canada
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