Prof. Muthukumaran Packirisamy

Dr. M. Packirisamy is Professor and Concordia Research Chair at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Concordia University. He received a B.E. in mechanical engineering from the University of Madras, Madras, India; an M.S. in mechanical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India; and a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. He is the recipient of the Member Royal Society of Canada College, Fellow National Academy of Inventors (US), Fellow Indian National Academy of Engineering, Fellow Engineering Institute of Canada, Fellow Canadian Academy of Engineering, Fellow American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Fellow Institution of Engineers India, Fellow Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering, the I.W. Smith award from the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering, Concordia University Research Fellow, Petro Canada Young Innovator Award, and the ENCS Young Research Achievement Award. As an author of around 450 articles published in journals and conference proceedings and 30 inventions, he published a textbook, BioMEMS: Engineering and Science Perspectives, and six book chapters. His recent invention on energy harvesting from the photosynthesis of blue-green algae has more than 300 citations from around the world and was covered by the media of most countries throughout the world.