Dr. Aloke Kumar received his Bachelors and Masters degrees from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India in 2005 and his Ph.D in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA in 2010. Afterwards he was a Wigner Fellow at Oak Ridge National Labs, Tennessee, USA. Prior to joining IISc in May 2017, Dr. Aloke Kumar was the Canada Research Chair in Microfluidics for Biological Systems and Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Alberta, Canada.