Imane Khalil, PhD, PE, is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. She is an associate professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of San Diego and the associate dean of graduate engineering programs. Prior to joining academia, she worked at Sandia National Laboratories for over 10 years, first as a scientist and then as a manager where she managed different departments, including the one that performed structural analysis for Curiosity, the rover that landed on Mars.

Issam Lakkis, PhD, is a professor and chair of the Mechanical Engineering Department at the American University of Beirut in Beirut, Lebanon, where he also runs the Microflows and Microscale Heat Transfer Laboratory.