Prof. Bhaskar Mitra received his Bachelors and Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering from IIT Bombay (2002) and Ph.D from Univesity of Michigan in 2008. His thesis topic was High speed chemical sensing using microdischarges. Subsequently he worked in Industry and an industry-academia consortium at the Center for Innovative Ventures in Emerging Technology at Rutgers University. Since 2014 he has been a faculty at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi where he is engaged in research on Sensors, MEMS, and Packaging. He has fabricated various devices like High-G accelerometers, Vibration Energy Harvestors, Microfluidic Valves, Microscale Photoionization Detectors, Microscale glow discharge OES sensors, thin film packaging and chalcogenide based chemical sensors.