Dr. Madhav Datta is an R&D professional with extensive experience in academic and industrial research. He received his BS in Chemical Engineering from H.B. Technological Institute, Kanpur, MS in Chemical Engineering from the University of California at Los Angeles, and his doctorate from the Materials Department of Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland in 1975. Dr. Datta’s professional affiliations included the Materials Department of EPFL (1973-84), IBM’s T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York (1985-1999); Intel’s Logic Technology Development, Portland, Oregon (1999-2003); and Emerson Network Power’s Cooligy Precision Cooling, Mountain View, California (2003- 2013). In 2014, he joined the Coimbatore campus of Amrita Viswa Vidyapeetham University as the Chairman of Amrita Center for Industrial Research and Innovation (ACIRI) and a Distinguished Professor in the Chemical Engineering and Materials Science Department. Currently he is a Professor Emeritus in the School of Engineering. Dr. Datta is Cited among the top 2% of scientists in the world. He is a recipient of the Electrodeposition Research Award of the Electrochemical Society, USA. He is an innovator with forty- nine issued US Patents. He has over one hundred scientific publications and is the author/editor of several books on Electrochemical Processing & Micro/Nanoelectronics. He co-edited a series on New Trends in Electrochemical Technology. He has held several professional administrative positions including divisional chairs in the Electrochemical Society (ECS) and the International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE). He has presented keynotes and invited lectures in internation conferences. Dr. Datta chaired the Technology Working Group and Technology Implementation Group of National Electronics Manufacturing Initiative (NEMI, Washington DC) and developed a first of its kind technology roadmap of energy storage systems for the electronics industry.