Arvind Pattamatta is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Madras. He received his Ph.D. from SUNY, Buffalo, NY in 2009. He is the recipient of Alexander von Humboldt fellowship for the years 2013 & 2024, INAE Young Engineer Award for the year 2015 and JSPS invitational fellowship for the year 2017. His research interests are in the area microscale energy transport and thermal management of devices. He has authored more than 150 publications in peer-reviewed journals and conferences.

Sarit K. Das is currently the V.Balakrishnan Chair Professor and the the former Dean, Academic Research at Indian Institute of Technology Madras. He is also an “Institute Professor “ at IITMadras. He is a former director of Indian Institute of Technology Ropar. He has published five books and more than 350 research papers. He is an associate editor of Journal of Heat Transfer Engineering. His research interests include heat transfer in nano-fluids, biomicro-fluidics, nano particle mediated drug delivery in cancer cells, heat exchangers, boiling in mini/micro channels, fuel cells, battery thermal management, jet instabilities, thermal and electrochemical desalination, heat transfer in porous media and computational fluid dynamics. He is the recipient of DAAD and Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship of Germany. He is a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering and National Academy of Sciences, India. He has been awarded the Peabody Visiting Professorship at the Mechanical Engineering Department of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, USA), 2011. He is a recipient of the India Citation Award 2012, given by Thompson Reuter.