Sushanta Mitra is the Executive Director of the Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology and a Professor in Mechanical & 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 bio-system. For his contributions in science and engineering, he has been an elected fellow of number of key scientific organizations including the Canadian Academy for Engineering, the Royal Society of Chemistry, the American Physical Society and AAAS. He is also the recepient of 2015 Engineering Excellence Medal.