Suresh Garimella, R. Eugene & Susie E. Goodson Prof, Purdue U., USA

Director of the Cooling Technology Research Center &

Electronics Cooling Lab

Associate Editor, ASME J Heat Transfer ;

Editor, Exper.  Heat Transfer ;

Member of the National Electronics Manufacturing Initiative (NEMI), Thermal Management Group

Yogesh Jaluria, Board of Governors and Professor at  Rutgers U., USA,

Chair Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering

Over, 400 articles, 7 books, 2 patents

Donald Q. Kern & Max Jacob Awards

Chair Heat Transfer Division/ASME for 2002/03

Editor ASME J. of Heat Transfer.

Yogendra Joshi, Prof. at Georgia Tech., USA

Director of the Microelectronics & Emerging Technologies Thermal Lab. & Consortium for Energy Efficient Thermal Management. 

Inventor Recognition Award of Semiconductor Research Corp. (2001, 2007). ASME/ Electronic & Photonic Packaging Division Outstanding Contribution Award, 2006.

Satish Kandlikar, Prof. at Rochester Institute of Technology, USA

Former head of Mechanical Engineering Department.

Over 70 papers, Member of K-8 committee: Theory and Fundamentals, ASME

Heat Transfer Division Heat and History

Editor of the internal J. Heat Transfer Eng. 1996-97

Einsenhart Outstanding Teaching Award at RIT

Clemens Lasance, Principal Scientist at Philips Research Labs, Eindhoven, Netherlands.

He worked for Philips since 1969.

Over 70 papers. Associate editor of Electronics Cooling magazine & Microelectronics Reliability.

SEMITHERM Significant Contributor Award, 2001, Harvey Rosten award, 2005

Robert Moffat, Emeritus Prof. Stanford University, USA

Over 200 publications Fellow of ASME. Heat Transfer Memorial Award, Mellville Medal, Holley Medal, and two Best Paper Awards from ASME, Eckman Award, Mills Dean Award, and Abernethy Award from ISA

Alok Rastogi, Prof. Binghamton University, USA

Over 155 papers (70 papers on thin film photovoltaic solar cells, and nanoscale materials for PV). He holds 12 patents in this area. He participated in  coordinated European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Projects

Rao Tummala, Distinguished & Endowed Chair Prof. at Georgia Tech., USA

Founding Dir. Microsystems Pack. Research Center (PRC).

Formerly, Director of IBM’s Advanced  Packaging Research lab.

Over 320 technical papers, 71 U.S. patents. Author of the reference book for microsystems packaging.

ex- President of the IEEE-CPMT Society and IMAPS Society.

Mohamed-Nabil Sabry, Prof. French University in Egypt, Founder-Director of its R&D Center (CIDRE) and President of the University Research Committee, Formerly, Eng. Manager of Analog Simulation in Mentor Graphics worldwide. Research contracts for French Nuclear Authority, European Rocket Ariane engine, Harvey Rosten award for Excellence in Electro-thermal Analysis, 2003.

Ali Shakouri, Prof. at the University of California at Santa Cruz, USA.

Head of the Quantum Electronics Group, Director of the  Thermionic Energy Conversion Center (Multi university project involving UCLA, Berkeley, Harvard, MIT, North Carolina, Purdue, UCSB).

Packard Fellowship in Science and Eng. 1999, NSF CAREER Award 2000

Gerald Sonnenfeld, Vice-President of Binghamton University for research. He is an eminent researcher in the medical field. He will give a short talk entitled: "Building a Successful University-Industry Partnership"

Kazuaki Yazawa, Sony Distinguished Engineer at Sony, Japan.

He has been with Sony since 1980 working on Mechanical and thermal engineering of various consumer products (VAIO computers, advanced VLSI packaging …)

Ph.D. from Toyama U., Japan, 2006. Visiting research at U. of Minnesota, Minnesota, USA (1999 – 2001).