Shankar Subramaniam is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Iowa State University and Founding Director of the Center for Multiphase Flow Research and Education. He received his B. Tech. in aeronautical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (Mumbai) in 1988 and is a recipient of the President’s Silver Medal. He earned his PhD at Cornell University, after an MS in Aerospace Engineering at the University of Notre Dame, USA. Prior to joining the ISU faculty in 2002, Subramaniam was an assistant professor at Rutgers University. He is a recipient of the US Department of Energy’s Early Career Principal Investigator award. His areas of expertise are theory, modelling and simulation of multiphase flows including sprays, particle-laden flows, colloids and granular mixtures, turbulence, mixing, and reacting flows.