Farzam Roknaldin, Ph.D. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Stanford University, California, Principal Engineer/Consultant.
Dr. Roknaldin has diverse background in Thermal Management of Electronic Equipment, Computational fluid dynamics, Aerodynamics, Thermal systems, Aero-acoustics, and Finite element methods in fluid and solid mechanics. He is serving as part time faculty in Mechanical Engineering Department at San Jose State University where he teaches courses in fluid/thermal science and conducting research in thermal management through his graduate students.
Farzam is a Principal Engineer/Consultant at Applied Thermal Technologies, a thermal management company located in Silicon Valley that focuses on innovating thermal solutions for electronic equipments. His thermal designs already in the market range from small hand held electronic devices to large telecommunication server racks. To come up with a particular cooling solution, with reliable thermal/fluid performance, he employs Computational fluid dynamics tools followed by laboratory measurements. Prior to his involvement in electronics cooling he conducted research in Aero-acoustics and Large Eddy simulation of turbulent flow over aerodynamic bodies. Methodology developed in his research is applicable to variety of engineering problems ranging from capturing aerodynamic noise radiated from remotely piloted planes to analyze generated noise from cooling fan commonly used in computer and telecommunication equipments.

Vladimir Kudriavtsev, Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, Moscow Aviation Institute (Russia): Principal Thermal Consultant, 15+ years of experience in the field of thermo flow design working in the US and Canada and supporting projects in Japan, Korea and Europe. Extensive expertize in thermally loaded product design and optimization, product development, experimental measurements, thermal stress analysis and computational fluid dynamics.
50+ publications in the field of fluid dynamics, heat transfer

Prabhu Sathyamurthy, Ph. D. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minnesota. Director of Applied Thermal Technologies (USA). Previously, Director of ICEPAK Division, ANSYS/FLUENT for 12 years. Fifteen years of experience in Electronics Thermal Management & Software solutions, twenty five years of experience in CFD and simulation of engineering processes.

Nilanjana Basu, Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles: Advisory Engineer. Five years of experience in Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations and three years of experience in thermal design of electronic system and equipment. Expertise in wide range of applications - from package level analysis to datacenter cooling.

Paul Karayacoubian, MS in Mechanical Engineering, University of Waterloo, Canada: Advisory Engineer. At the University of Waterloo in Canada he worked with Professors J. R. Culham and M. M. Yovanovich who are considered a pioneers in the field of thermal contact resistance. His research was related to modeling and characterizing effective thermal conductivity of thermal greases used to minimize thermal contact resistance in microelectronics and space applications. He also performed CFD analyses for RWDI, a wind engineering and building science consulting firm in Canada. At Applied Thermal Technologies Paul worked on the chip-, board-, and system-level analysis using both computer simulations (Icepak) and experimental wind tunnel studies. He has worked on small form-factor servers and laptop solutions requiring innovative solutions with phase-change thermal interface materials and heat pipes as well as custom heat sinks. He has also done various experimental tests in the lab including an experimental optimization study for a next-generation server for the medical devices industry.

Avijit Goswami, Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, is the managing director of Applied Thermal Technologies. Prior to this he was leading Applied Thermal Technologies, India. During his 15 year career in fluid mechanics and heat transfer, he has worked on a wide range of applications in electronics cooling. These involved experimental, analytical and numerical analysis of heat transfer problems. He obtained his Ph.D. from Stanford University specializing in the area of Turbulence Modeling and Computational Fluid Dynamics. Dr. Goswami earned his B.Tech. (1988) from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, M.S. from the University of Texas at Arlington, TX, in the field of Mechanical/Aeronautical Engineering.
In addition, he has published and presented several papers in international journals and conferences on CFD and heat transfer. He has designed cooling solutions for many electronic equipment including laptop and desktop computers, servers, networking and telecommunications systems. He has also taught electronics cooling courses around the world since 1999.

Achuth Rao, Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, is the Director, Business Development at Applied Thermal Technologies LLC. Achuth has more than fifteen years experience in technical product development, engineering analysis (MCAD, MCAE/CFD), product data management (PDM), product management, marketing and business development. Prior to Applied, Achuth was a Senior Product Manager at AMD working on high performance computing solutions using graphics processors (GPGPU). Prior to AMD, Achuth was a Product Line Manager for Mechanical Solutions at ANSYS Inc. At ANSYS, Achuth was responsible for product strategy and management, marketing, alliances and customer services functions. He has worked as Senior Member Technical Staff at ANSYS on variety of CAE development projects in areas of thermal and coupled physics analysis, fluid structure interaction and other solver enhancements. Achuth began his career at Tata Consulting Engineers (TCE) in Bangalore, India working as a project engineer on design and implementation of engineering systems for power plants. Achuth holds a bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from Bangalore University, masters in Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Texas A&M University and a MBA degree from Carnegie Mellon University.