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George Karniadakis received his S.M. (1984) and Ph.D. (1987) from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was appointed Lecturer in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT in 1987 and subsequently he joined the Center for Turbulence Research at Stanford / Nasa Ames. He joined Princeton University as Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and as Associate Faculty in the Program of Applied and Computational Mathematics. He was a Visiting Professor at Caltech (1993) in the Aeronautics Department. He joined Brown University as Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics in the Center for Fluid Mechanics on January 1, 1994. He became a full professor on July 1, 1996.  He has been a Visiting Professor and Senior Lecturer of Ocean/Mechanical Engineering at MIT since September 1, 2000. He was Visiting Professor at Peking University (Fall 2007 & 2013). He has a joing appointment with PNNL since 2013. He is a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM, 2010-), Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS, 2004-), Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME, 2003-) and Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA, 2006-). He received the Ralf E Kleinman award from SIAM (2015), the (inaugural) J. Tinsley Oden Medal (2013), and the CFD award (2007) by the US Association in Computational Mechanics. 

Karniadakis is currently the lead PI of an OSD/ARO/MURI on Fractional PDEs, and previously the lead PI of an OSD/AFOSR MURI on Uncertainty Quantification.  He is currently the Director of the DOE center PhILMS on Physics-Informed Learning Machines and previously he was also the Director of  the DOE Center of Mathematics for Mesoscale Modeling of Materials (CM4). 

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Juan G. Santiago received his MS and PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1995.  He is the Charles Lee Powell Foundation Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. His research focuses on the study of micro-transport systems, particularly devices where transport couples with electric fields, biochemical reactions, and/or heat transfer.  Applications of this work include molecular diagnostics and lithium harvesting.  He is a Fellow of APS, ASME, and AIMBE.  He is a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2022); the National Academy of Inventors (2022); and the National Academy of Engineering (2026). He serves as the Founding Editor-in-Chief of the journal Flow. His work is cited more than 1500 times per year and has an h index of 97 (Google Scholar). He has authored and co-authored over 250 journal papers and 250 conference papers, and he is a named inventor in 60 issued patents (17 of which are currently licensed). 

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Arezoo Ardekani is Associate Head for Faculty Affairs and Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University. Her research integrates fluid mechanics, complex fluids, soft matter, and transport phenomena to uncover the fundamental physics governing biological systems and particulate suspensions. Her work has established predictive computational frameworks that connect microscale physics with macroscopic transport, enabling advances in drug delivery, biopharmaceutical manufacturing, and multiphase flows.

Ardekani is a Fellow of AAAS, APS, AIMBE, and ASME. She received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the NSF CAREER Award, the Arthur B. Metzner Early Career Award from the Society of Rheology, the Society of Engineering Science Young Investigator Medal, the Sigma Xi Mid-Career Research Award, and was inducted into the University of California, Irvine Engineering Hall of Fame. She has published more than 200 journal articles, secured over $115 million in competitive research funding as PI or co-I, and mentored eighty graduate students and postdoctoral scholars; several now hold faculty and research leadership positions.

Beyond her research, Ardekani is an internationally recognized scientific leader. She serves as Associate Editor of Physical Review Fluids and previously served as Associate Editor of ASME Applied Mechanics Reviews. She served on the advisory boards of Physics of Fluids and the Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics. She co-chaired the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics Annual Meeting held in Indianapolis and has served on numerous national award committees and professional society leadership boards. She has been a member-at-large of the executive committee for the American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics and a governing board member of the International Conference on Multiphase Flows. She is currently serving as the member-at-large of the executive committee of the society of rheology and is the co-chair of the technical committee for the 2026 society of rheology annual meeting.

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A globally renowned authority in thermal engineering, Sylvie Lorente, PhD, has the distinction of being among the top 2 percent of most-cited scientists worldwide. A sought-after scholar and speaker, she has earned numerous international accolades, including her appointment in 2022 to the governing body of the European Research Council by the European Commission and her election in 2019 to the prestigious Academia Europaea—an association of European scientists and scholars whose members include 80 Nobel laureates.

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Dr. Mazumder is a Professor and Associate Chair of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at The Ohio State University (OSU). He received his B.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering from IIT-Kharagpur in 1991 and his Ph.D. from Penn State University in 1997. He joined The Ohio State University (OSU) in March of 2004. Prior to joining OSU, he was employed at CFD Research Corporation in Huntsville, AL for 7 years. Dr. Mazumder is the author of two graduate-level textbooks and more than 140 peer-reviewed papers. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Notable among his many awards are the Moran award and the Distinguished Graduate Faculty award from the OSU Mechanical and Aerospace Department, and the McCarthy award for teaching and the Lumley award for research from the OSU College of Engineering. In 2024, he received the U.S. Fulbright-Kalam Climate Science award.

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Beverley McKeon is Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Program Director of the Center for Turbulence Research (CTR) at Stanford University. She was formerly the Theodore von Karman Professor of Aeronautics at the Graduate Aerospace Laboratories at Caltech (GALCIT) with a courtesy appointment in Computational and Mathematical Sciences, and Deputy Chair of the Division of Engineering and Applied Science. 

McKeon’s research interests include interdisciplinary, equation- and data-driven approaches to modeling and manipulation of unsteady and turbulent flows across a range of Mach number, fundamental experimental investigations of wall turbulence under engineering-relevant conditions, and innovative experiments to characterize and modify unsteady and turbulent flows. Best known for her work pioneering resolvent analysis as an equation-driven tool to analyze and predict the dynamics of turbulent flow, her research group has specialized in addressing its application to understand and modify wall turbulence in numerical data and via experiments with external forcing.

Her work has been recognized through a Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship from the DoD in 2017, a Presidential Early Career Award (PECASE) in 2009 and an NSF CAREER Award in 2008. 

She is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and currently serves as co-Lead Editor of Phys. Rev. Fluids, on the editorial board of the Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics and on the Annual Reviews Editorial Affairs Committee. She is a Past Chair of the US National Committee on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics and co-chaired the Panel on Physical Science, NAS Decadal Survey on Biological and Physical Sciences Research in Space, 2023-2032.

McKeon received M.A. and M.Eng. degrees from the University of Cambridge and a Ph.D. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Princeton University.

Advanced materials with precisely engineered optical and thermal properties are redefining the frontiers of passive heat and light management, enabling a new generation of renewable building envelopes. These advances stem from innovations in material chemistry, microstructural design, and scalable manufacturing processes. Among the most promising technologies, passive radiative cooling harnesses a versatile materials platform—including microporous polymers, photonic ceramics, and hybrid organic–inorganic composites—engineered into paints, coatings, films, and textiles. These systems are designed to achieve simultaneously high solar reflectance and strong long-wave infrared emissivity, enabling sub-ambient cooling without energy input. In parallel, thermochromic smart windows employ materials such as vanadium dioxide, organic–inorganic perovskites, and hydrogels, fabricated via sputtering, spin coating, and related deposition techniques. These materials enable reversible, temperature-responsive phase transitions for dynamic optical modulation. Performance is intrinsically governed not only by material composition but also by morphology control, device architecture, and processing routes that determine scalability and long-term durability. Integrating these materials into building systems provides a direct pathway to significantly reduce operational energy demand for cooling and heating. Beyond buildings, these platforms demonstrate strong potential in transportation, wearable systems, and industrial thermal management. Despite rapid progress, key challenges remain in large-scale manufacturing, cost-effective system integration, and long-term reliability under real-world conditions. This presentation will highlight recent scientific breakthroughs in passive thermal and optical materials and outline the critical engineering strategies required for successful commercialization. By bridging fundamental materials discovery with practical deployment, advanced building skins offer transformative solutions for decarbonizing the built environment and advancing sustainable development across sectors—representing a powerful convergence of materials science, engineering innovation, and climate action.

Ir Prof. Edwin Tso is Associate Dean (Internationalisation and Outreach) and Chair Professor of Energy and Sustainability at the School of Energy and Environment (SEE), City University of Hong Kong (CityUHK). He received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) in 2015. He joined CityUHK as an Assistant Professor in 2018, was promoted early to Associate Professor in 2023, and was elevated directly to Chair Professor in 2026. He serves as Programme Director of “Fostering Innovation for Resilience and Sustainable Transformation (FIRST),” which was endorsed by UNESCO in 2025 as part of the United Nations International Decade of Sciences for Sustainable Development (2024–2033). His research focuses on fundamental heat transfer, thermal management, indoor built environments, and optical engineering for next-generation energy-efficient technologies. He is particularly known for pioneering work in passive radiative cooling and thermochromic smart window technologies, advancing sustainable building envelopes to reduce energy consumption and carbon emissions. He has published over 130 journal papers in leading journals, including Science, Nature Sustainability, etc. Committed to translational research, Ir Prof. Tso has filed 19 patents and actively promotes technology commercialization. He is the founder of i2Cool Limited, a startup specializing in passive radiative cooling technologies, which has secured over US$20 million in investment and achieved successful deployment locally and internationally. He is a Young Fellow or member of multiple professional bodies and is both a Chartered Engineer (CEng) and a Registered Professional Engineer (PRE).

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Burak Ozpineci earned his B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Orta Dogu Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, in 1994. He then completed his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, in 1998 and 2002, respectively. Since 2001, he has been with Oak Ridge National Laboratory, where he began as a student and has held positions as a researcher, founding group leader of the Power and Energy Systems Group, group leader of the Power Electronics and Electric Machinery Group. He currently serves as a Corporate Fellow and the Section Head of the Vehicle and Mobility Systems Research Section. Additionally, he has a joint faculty appointment with The University of Tennessee. Dr. Ozpineci is a Fellow of IEEE.