Yuan is the Director of the Laboratory for Sustanable and Nano-Manufacturing and also the Director of the DOE Industrial Assessment Center at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, working with dozens of manufacturing companies on sustainable manufacturing research and practices. Currently he is the Chair of ASME Life Cycle Engineering Technical Committee, and also an editor for International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment (impact factor: 3.988). He is a recipient of the 2014 National Science Foundation Career Award, the 2014 State of Wisconsin "Citation of Commendation" Award, the 2013 Gustav Olling Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award from the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME), as well as the LEO Best Paper Award from the 2013 CIRP International Conference on Life Cycle Engineering. He is the Conference Program Co-Chair of the International Symposium on Sustainable Systems and Technology (ISSST) during 2012-2015, and also a Symposium Chair for ASME Manufacturing Science and Engineering Conference (MSEC) during 2011-2014. He is an active reviewer for 50+ international journals including Environmental Science and Technology, ACS Nano, Advanced Materials, Nano Energy, Journal of Power Sources, Applied Energy, etc., and also for such premier conference proceedings including ASME MSEC, ASME IDETC, ASME IMECE, ASME ISFA, CIRP LCE, IEEE ISSST, IEEE CASE, etc. He is a panel reviewer of the ISSST Student Paper Competition and also a Judge of the ISSST Student Poster Competition. He served fequently on funding proposal panel reviews for National Science Foundation, Department of Energy, and the ACS Petroleum Research Fund (PRF). He is a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), a seniore member of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME), and a Research Affiliate of the International Academy for Production Engineering (CIRP).

Nanotechnology, Advanced NanoMaterials, Nano Energy.

Ramesh K. Agarwal is the William Palm Professor of Engineering and the director of Aerospace Research and Education Center at Washington University in St. Louis. From 1994 to 2001, he was the 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 worked in various scientific and managerial positions at McDonnell Douglas Research Laboratories in St. Louis. He became the Program Director and McDonnell Douglas Fellow in 1990. Dr. Agarwal 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 35+ years, Professor Agarwal has worked in various areas of Computational Science and Engineering - Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), Computational Materials Science, Computational Electromagnetics (CEM), and Multidisciplinary Design and Optimization. He is the author and coauthor of over 400 publications. He has also worked in Nanotechnology and Renewable Energy, in particular in nanoparticles properties, synthesis, and their applications in drug delivery and their health effects, and energetic materials for solar energy applications. He has given many plenary, keynote and invited lectures at various national and international conferences worldwide. Professor Agarwal continues to serve on many academic, government, and industrial advisory committees.Agarwal is a Fellow sixteen societies including the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), American Association for Advancement of Science (AAAS), American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), American Physical Society (APS), American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), Royal Aeronautical Society and American society for Engineering Education (ASEE). He has received many prestigious honors and national/international awards from various professional societies and organizations for his research contributions.

Nanotechnology and Renewable Energy, in particular in nano particles properties, synthesis, and their applications in drug delivery and their health effects, and energetic materials for solar energy applications.

Cengiz Ozkan is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering at the University of California, Riverside since 2009. He was an Associate Professor from 2006 to 2009 and an Assistant Professor from 2001-2006. Between 2000-2001, he was a consulting professor at Stanford University. He received his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Stanford University in 1997. His advisors were W. Nix and H. Gao.Ozkan’s areas of expertise include nanomaterials for energy storage; synthesis and processing including graphene, III-V and II-VI materials; novel battery and supercapacitor architectures; nanoelectronics; biochemical sensors; and nanopatterning for beyond CMOS. He organized and chaired 14 scientific and international conferences; He has more than 200 technical publications including journal papers, conference proceedings and book chapters; over 50 patent disclosures, has given more than 100 presentations worldwide and is the recipient of more than 30 honors and awards. His important contributions include: the first time growth of hierarchical three dimensional graphene nanostructures; development of a unique high-throughput metrology method for large-area CVD grown graphene sheets; doping and functionalization of CVD grown and pristine graphene layers; study of digital data transmission in graphene and InSb materials; memory devices based on inorganic/organic nanocomposites, novel lithium-ion batteries based on nano-silicon from beach sand and silicon dioxide nanotubes; fast charging lithium-ion batteries based on silicon decorated three dimensional nano-carbon architectures; and high performance supercapacitors based on three dimensional graphene foam architectures.

Nanotechnology,nano-carbon,nano-silicon,silicon dioxide nanotubes.

Ruchi Singh is the Managing Director/Founder of a company ‘Nanonub’. It’s a Research & Development and consulting firm which is established with the aim of providing a common platform for the nanotechnology professionals and companies. It serves a very focused area of technology which is ‘Nanotechnology’ on the global level. She completed her undergraduate degree in Chemical Engineering from India in 2009. After completing her Engineering in India, she worked in one of the top software company in India ‘Infosys Technologies Limited’. She was awarded Samsung Scholarship and pursued her Master\\\'s in Energy (Nanotechnology) at Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea. After her Master\\\'s, she moved to the United States and started working on nanotechnology applications in Oil & Gas industry. At present, she is working as a Managing Director at Nano nub. She has experience in the research area of nano material's, bio nanotechnology and nano technology applications in oil and gas industry. She has experience in startups, entrepreneurship, global management, market development, strategy and planning, new technology/emerging markets, international expansion etc. Currently, she is also serving as a chair of New Venture Clinic in MIT Forum of Texas, Houston. She created Nano nub in 2013, of which she has been Director since then. She is a member of several national level research and entrepreneur council. She has excellent networking and entrepreneur skills. She has developed a good network internationally since her post-graduation. She is determined to serve the society with the application and benefits of this technology. This is the reason that she started her business ‘Nano nub’ on this technology.

Nanotechnology, Nano materials, Nano Science

Privat Dozent Dr. habil. Yogendra Kumar Mishra is working as Group Leader at Functional Nanomaterials, Institute for Materials Science, Kiel University, Germany, After Ph. D. in 2008 in Condensed Matter Physics from JNU New Delhi, India, he migrated to work at Functional Nanomaterials group Kiel with the prestigious Alexander von Humboldt Postdoc Fellowship award (Feb. 2009 to Feb. 2011) where he continued working till today. Recently in 2015, he finished his Habilitation degree (Venia Legendi) in Materials Science from Kiel University and currently leading a sub-group on 3D Nanomaterials at Functional Nanomaterials. In Kiel, he introduced a new fabrication technique known as 'Flame Transport Synthesis-FTS' which offers versatile (1D to 3D) nanostructuring of different metal oxides including their three-dimensional (3D) interconnected ceramic nano-networks. His main research focus is the growth of highly porous and mechanically flexible 3D interconnected materials built from ZnO nano- and microtetrapods by FTS approach which could be used as next generation 3D flexible semiconducting ceramics for advanced technologies or as sacrificial templates for fabrication of new 3D nanomaterials including hybrids. His recent research developments include growth of carbon based ultra-light Aerographite material, Aerographite-GaN hybrid 3D networks, ZnO tetrapods network based devices, ZnO networks as viral traps, SnO2 nanowire based stretchable ceramic materials for UV sensing, alongwith several other applications. He has published more than 80 papers in high rank international magazines. He is referee for more than 100 peer-reviewed magazines and also serves as an Editorial Board Member in Nature-Scientific Reports, as an Academic Editor in PLoS ONE, Associate Editor in Advanced Materials Letters (VBRI) including Advisory Board Members in several international conferences.

ceramic materials,nanotechnology

Mary Mehrnoosh Eshaghian-Wilner has over 26 years of research experience in various areas within the field of Computer Engineering. Additionally, she has worked in the area of patent law for several years. She has published numerous scientific papers, including two books, and has handled the prosecution and infringement analysis of many complex U.S. and international patents.Eshaghian-Wilner currently is a Professor of Engineering Practice at the Electrical Engineering-Systems Department at the University of Southern California (USC), and since 2004 has been an Adjunct Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Prior to joining UCLA, she was a tenured full Professor and Department Head at the Computer Engineering Department of Rochester Institute of Technology.

Computing Architectures and Interconnects: Bio-inspired and Nanoscale Computing, MEMS, Optical Interconnects, VLSI and Reconfigurable chips Computing Networks and Algorithms: Heterogeneous/Cluster/Grid/Cloud Computing, Mapping and Scheduling paradigms/algorithms/tools Biomedical Applications: Nanomedicine, Bioinformatics, Sequence Alignment, Image-Processing, Computer Vision Technology Law: Technology Transfer, Intellectual Property, Patent Reform, Digital Rights, Cyber Law/Crimes, Internet Privacy

Jinghua received her B.Sc and M.Sc degrees from the Yunnan University, China. She joined the teaching and research faculty at the Modern Analysis and Testing Centre, Yunnan Universityafter completing her master degree, and focused on atomic force microscopy investigation of nanodiamond fabrication and applications. In 2012, she has completed the project “Fabrication, characterization, and applications of anodic aluminium oxide” and received her Ph.D. degree from the School of Physics, University of Melbourne, Australia. Her newly developed techniques enable her to win the seed funding from the Melbourne Materials Institute in 2011. At the end of 2011, she joined the Plasma Nanoscience Centre Australia (PNCA) group at the Commonwealth Scientific Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) after winning an Office of the Chief Executive (OCE) Postdoctoral fellowship. At CSIRO, Jinghua worked on the one-dimensional nanostructure synthesis and applications using low-temperature plasmas. Her investigations have demonstrated that the nanoporous anodic aluminium oxide membranes are one of the best modern platforms for designing the new-generation nanoplasmonic metamaterials. At the end of 2015,Jinghua Fang has joined the School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Technology Sydney as a research postdoctoral fellow. In 2016, she won the Discovery Early Career Researcher Award from the Australian Research Council. Her major interests are material science and engineering, mainly focused on plasmonics, template-assisted nanostructure fabrication, characterization and applications.

Her major interests are material science and engineering, mainly focused on plasmonics, template-assisted nanostructure fabrication, characterization and applications. And also Nanostructure,material science,nanoplasmonic metamaterials.

Nasim Amiralian is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Australian Institute for Materials Engineer - Nanocellulose University of Queensland. Amiralian’s general research themes are processing and structure-property performance of novel nanomaterials, renewable-based polymers and nanocomposites.One of her key research aims is to translate the strong fundamental science and engineering taking place in her research towards validated value propositions and commercial applications.Amiralian is an inventor and key researcher of a spinifex-derived cellulose nanofibre technology at the University of Queensland. She has demonstrated that very tough, flexible, high aspect ratio cellulose nanofibrils can be produced through the use of simple, cost effective, and environmentally friendly methods. Currently, her research program has predominately focused on the processing and optimisation of cellulose nanofibres and also investigations into various applications of nanocellulose such as elastomeric composites, non-woven filtration media, and renewable carbon fibre.

Materials Engineer - Nanocellulose

Mingdong Dong is currently working as an Associate Professor and a group leader at Bio-SPM group at Aarhus University Denmark. He obtained the Bachelor, Master, and PhD degrees from China, Sweden, Denmark respectively. After obtaining his PhD degree (2006) from Aarhus University, he continued with a Postdoctoral Research Associate Position at Aarhus University, Denmark and Harvard University, USA. Dr. Dong has published more than 150 papers (More than 3400 citations, reached an H-Index of 31 ) in top international peer reviewed journals such as Nature,Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Chemistry, Nature Communications, PNAS, Angewandte Chemie, Nano Letters, JACS, Small, ACS NANO, Chem Comm, etc.Dong also serve as a board member or guest editors for international peer review journals including Nature group- scientific report, the Royal Society of Chemistry EES and RSC advances, and serve reviewers for several scientific journals such as the American Physics Society (APS, USA), the American Chemical Society (ACS, USA), the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC, UK), and the Institute of Physics (IOP, UK).Nature group (UK).

Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Chemistry, Nature Communications, PNAS, Angewandte Chemie, Nano Letters, JACS, Small, ACS NANO, ChemComm, etc.

Pratheep K Annamalai is a materials engineer at Australian institute for bioengineering and nanotechnology (AIBN), the University of Queensland (UQ). His research interests focus mainly on the formulation, processing and evaluation of polymer nanocomposites for industrial applications and sustainable polymer materials. Before joining UQ, Pratheep studied Chemistry in University of Madras, received PhD in Chemistry jointly from University of Pune and National Chemical Laboratory (India), then went on to work as postdoctoral researcher on polymer membranes at Université Montpellier II (France) and on smart polymer nanocomposites based on cellulose at Adolphe Merkle Institute, Université de Fribourg (Switzerland). He is an emerging researcher of polymer science and engineering with contribution of 28 research articles, 3 review articles and 4 book chapters with focus on biopolymers. His research activities are currently funded by Australian Research Council and focus on cellulose based materials (nanocomposites, carbon fibres and polymer foams)

Polymer nanocomposites,Biobased materials,Nanoparticles

Pharmacist and PHD in pharmaceutical sciences. Post doc in pharmaceutical nanotechnology. Won the prize of best PHD thesis in pharmaceutical field (2008). Is a professor at Centro Universitário Franciscano for master and phd courses on nano sciences. Works from 2008 in Inventiva as R&D Director for the development of new delivery systems for cosmetics is author of more than 35 international papers.

pharmaceutical nanotechnology,Nanotechnology cosmetics,nano Sciences.

Misni Misran has been an academic member in the Department Chemistry, University of Malaya since 1999. He obtained his Bachelor Degree in Chemistry from the Flinders University of South Australia in 1991 and subsequently received his Honours degree in 1992 from the same university. He later work as temporary teacher for secondary boarding school before joining Universiti Sains Malaysia as a research officer from 1993 - 1994. He completed his Ph.D. from the University Of East Anglia in 1999. Misran was promoted to his current position as professor in 2010. His academic interest is in Colloid and Surfactant Chemistry. Over the past 16 years, His research area is mainly in drug delivery systems with main focus in liposomal carrier system. He is also working in other colloidal related systems such as nanoparticle synthesis, nanolipids, creams, emulsions and microemulsions. He is the author and coauthor of over 90 publications.

Nanoparticles,microemulsion,emulsions,liposomes, nanolipids,drug deliverysystem.

M.A has completed his PhD at the school of Physics of the University of Melbourne and he is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at the Queensland University of Technology. He has more than 10 published/accepted papers in reputed journals.

Nanotechnology,Nano particles.

Hajar Alias is currently a Senior Lecturer at University Technology Malaysia.She received her Bachelor Degree in Chemical Engineering from University of Rochester, USA in 1994. She then continued her studies at the University of Leeds, United Kingdom and received her PhD in 2007. Her doctoral research was on nano materials and synthesis of nano fluids for heat transfer application. Her current research work includes nano materials synthesis and characterization, nanofluids application and catalysis. She has published numerous articles in international refereed journals and conference proceedings. She is an associate member of Icheme UK.

Her current research work includes nanomaterials synthesis and characterization, nanofluids application and catalysis.She has published numerous articles in international refereed jurnals and conference proceedings. She is an associate member of icheme UK.

Karuturi is currently an ARC research fellow in the Department of Electronics Materials Engineering, Research School of Physics and Engineering at the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. He is the recipient of Australian Research Council’s Discovery Early Career Researcher Award.Karuturi worked as a postdoctoral research fellow in the School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. He received his PhD in 2013 from the School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He got Master Degree in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai, India. Currently, Karuturi’s research focuses on the development of III-V compound semiconductors and semiconductor oxides for solar hydrogen generation applications using various thin film growth techniques, including Atomic Layer Deposition and Metal Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition.

Atomic Layer Deposition, MOCVD, Thin Film Growth and Characterizations, Nanostructure Fabrications, Solar Energy Conversion

Francesca Scalisi has done her Ph D in “Recovery and Fruition of Ancient Contexts" at University of Palermo. She is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Department of Architecture, University of Palermo working on Testing of nanostructured materials in the archaeological sites of Agrigento, Morgantina and Villa Romana del Casale.Her main research interests are innovative materials for architecture, nanotechnology for architecture, low-energy architecture. Principal Research Projects are Natural and artificial innovative materials for architecture; Nanotechnologies for unfired clay bricks; Nanotechnologies and Cultural Heritage. Her research program has predominately focused on the Nanotechnology and earth construction, study of the mechanical properties of adobe brick stabilized by Laponite nanoparticles and Nano-structured materials in new and existing Buildings to improved performance and saving of energy. Her International scientific production includes various publications in journals and conferences proceedings; she has authored more than 40 papers and journal articles. She is a reviewer in several International Journals and Research Institute.

nanotechnology for architecture,materials for architecture,low-energy architecture.

Nupur Bahadur is currently working as Associate Professor in Amity Institute of Nanotechnology, Amity University, Noida, India.Bahadur received her Master’s in Physical Chemistry from M.D.S. University Ajmer, India and Doctorate Degree in the area of Photochemistry & Photocatalysis from IIT Roorkee in 2005. Prior to joining Amity, she worked as DST Young Scientist in CSIR-National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi and Assistant Professor in Delhi University. Her research interests primarily includes application of Nanomaterials for water and waste water treatment in particular Heterogeneous Photocatalysis as an Advanced Oxidation Process (AOP) towards development of Photocatalytic Reactor for Industrial Effluent treatment. So far she has published 10 research papers in International Journals and 3 Book Chapters. She has 2 Indian Patents to her credit. She is reviewer to seven International Journals and Member of prestigious Scientific Bodies like International Water Association (IWA) and Materials Research Society of India (MRSI). She has delivered Invited Talk, Chaired Session and given Oral presentations in prestigious International Conferences and visited countries like Germany, Switzerland, Singapore and USA. She has successfully completed DST Young Scientist Project and currently pursuing a few Consultancy and Industry Sponsored Projects. She is an equally passionate teacher and Mentor to many students.

Nanomaterials for water and waste water treatment; Heterogeneous Photocatalysis as an Advanced Oxidation Process (AOP) towards development of Photocatalytic Reactor for Industrial Effluent treatment; Solar Photocatalysis

Zainiharyati Mohd Zain obtained Bachelor of Industrial Chemistry (Major) Management (Minor) in 1997, Master of Science (Chemistry) in 2005 and Doctor of Philosphy (Electroanalytical Chemistry) 2010 from Universiti Sains Malaysia.

Her research interest are mainly sensors ranges from implantable microelectrode for neurochemicals, DNA biosensor for cancer genes, optical Forster Resonance Energy Transfer based sensors and electrochemical sensors for Gunshot Residues analysis.

A.B.V. Kiran Kumar is currently working as an Assistant Professor of Nanotechnology at Amity University, India with eight years research experience on nanomaterials for various applications such as water purification, food packaging, drug delivery, wound healing applications, and Silver Nanowires/GO based transparent electrodes. He has completed his PhD with specialization in Synthetic organic chemistry from Department of Chemistry, Sri Krishnadevaraya University, India in 2007 on the synthesis of different kinds of (E) and (Z) -Athens bearing sulfoxide, sulfone functionalities, also prepared heterocyclic compounds (isoxazolines and their derivatives) by 1,3- cycloaddition reactions using sulfones and their antimicrobial applications. He has also worked on nano composite materials for display applications and antimicrobial membranes incorporating nanparticles, synthesis and development of MRI contrast agents, development off flexible transparent conducting films to replace ITO with nanowires and conducting polymers for OLED and OPV applications. He is also serving as a reviewer for various RSC journals.

NanoTechnology,NanoMaterials,Nanoparticles.

Wan Jeffrey Basirun graduated with a BSc degree in Chemistry from the University of Malaya in 1991. He then furthered his studies to the University of Southampton and was conferred a PhD in Electrochemistry in 1997. He started his career as a senior lecturer in the Department of Chemistry University of Malaya in the same year, was promoted to Associate Professor in 2003 and Professor in 2011. He is currently supervising more than 10 PhD students and has supervised/co-supervised 12 PhD students to completion.

His research areas are Electrochemistry, Material Science and Nanotechnology, has published more than 130 research papers. He has managed to establish research collaboration with several groups in South Korea, Australia and Iran.

R. P. Singh presently working as Vice-Chancellor of Sri Satya Sai University of Technology and Medical Sciences, Sehore (M.P.), India.R.P. Singh is former Director and Prof. Electronics and Communication at Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology, (MANIT) Bhopal.Singh Graduated and Post Graduated in Electronic Engineering from Institute of Technology (now IIT), B.H.U. Varanasi in 1971 and 1973, respectively. He did his Ph.D. from Barakatullah University Bhopal in 1991. He has 39 years of teaching, research, and administrative experience in Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology (MANIT), out of which 22 years as Professor. He was Head of the Department of Electronics, and Computer Science and Engineering at MANIT Bhopal from Jan 1996 to April 1998 and again during 2005-2008. He has worked as Professor In-charge Academic and Chairman Admission Committee, Dean (Academic) & Dean (R/D) at MANIT, Bhopal. During his service at MANIT he was instrumental in consolidation of Electronics Eng programs, creation of Computer Science & Eng, IT programs at UG and PG level. He has worked as Adjunct faculty at IIITM Gwalior, Govt. Eng college, Govt. Polytechnic, Barakatullah University Bhopal. He has published 128 papers in National / International reputed and indexed Journals including SCI. He has authored two books in the area of Communication Engineering; one of these books is published by MP Hindi Granth Academy in Hindi and other in English by Tata Mc-Hill. He has worked as Secretary, Chairman, IETE, M.P. and C.G. and Council Member, IETE. He was first Counselor of IEEE student’s chapter at MANIT, Bhopal. He has been member of Executive Committee, Institution of Engineers (I) M.P. Circle. He was Chairman of Computer Society of India. Bhopal. He was member of Board of Studies, and Research Degree committee of many Universities. He has chaired Technical Sessions of various National and International Conferences. He has been Consulting Editor of Journal of Institution of Engineers and reviewer in many International/National Journals. Singh visited about 70 Institutions as an expert of National Board of Accreditation and about 35 Institutes as AICT/U G.C. expert team for approval. He has undertaken several workshops on Outcome based Accreditation under mentorship of Experts of Washington Accord. Twenty candidates have completed their Ph.D. under his supervision and another Eight are registered in the area of Electronics/Communication system and related disciplines. He has under taken several development/ research/ projects. His area of interest is Communication systems, Microwave Eng, Low dimensional / Nano-materials and devices at r.f. and optical frequencies.

Communication systems, Microwave Eng, Low dimensional / Nano-materials and devices at r.f. and optical frequencies.