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USA. From 1994 to 2001, he was Sam Bloomfield Distinguished Professor and Executive Director of the National Institute for Aviation Research at Wichita State University in Kansas. From 1978 to 1994, he was Program Director and McDonnell Douglas Fellow at McDonnell Douglas Research Laboratories in St. Louis. He received Ph.D. in Aeronautical Sciences from Stanford University in 1975, M.S. in Aeronautical Engineering from the University of Minnesota in 1969 and B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India, in 1968. Over a period of 45 years, he has worked in computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and its applications to fluid flow problems in mechanical and aerospace engineering and in energy and environment. In past fifteen years, the focus of his research has been on renewable and clean energy technologies. In renewable energy, he has worked on energy from wind, solar and biomass. In clean energy technologies, he has pioneered chemical looping combustion and Carbon, Capture, Utilization and Sequestration (CCUS). He is the author and coauthor of over 600 publications. He has given many plenary, keynote and invited lectures at various national and international conferences worldwide in over sixty countries. He is Fellow of 25 professional societies including American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE), American Association for Advancement of Science (AAAS), American Physical Society (APS) and U.K. Energy Institute among others. He has received many prestigious honors and national/international awards from various professional societies and organizations for his research contributions including the AIAA Reeds Aeronautics Award, SAE Medal of Honor, ASME Honorary Membership and Honorary Fellowship from Royal Aeronautical Society.





Dr. Sushanta Mitra is Executive Director of the Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology and a Professor in Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering at the University of Waterloo. His research interests are in the fundamental understanding of fluid transport in micro and nano-scale confinements with applications in energy, water and biosystems. For his contributions in science and engineering, he is elected Fellow of several professional bodies, including the Canadian Academy of Engineering, the American Physical Society, the Royal Society of Chemistry and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.