Jay P. Gore is the Reilly University Chair Professor of Engineering and Director of the Energy Center at Purdue University. Jay received his B. E. from Pune University, India, and his M.S. and Ph.D. from the Pennsylvania State University. He served as a Research Fellow in Aerospace Engineering at the University of Michigan and as Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland prior to joining Purdue as an Associate Professor. Jay benefits from years of industrial work experience in: automobile engineering at TELCO in Pune, India; in nuclear engineering at Link Simulation Systems Division of the Singer Corporation in Silver Spring, MD; and in Gas Turbine Engines at Rolls Royce Corporation in Indianapolis, IN. Dr. Gore received early promotions to the rank of Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Chaired Professorship. Jay is a past Chairman of the Central States Section of the International Combustion Institute and the ASME K11 Committee on Heat Transfer. He has served as an Associate Editor of the ASME Journal of Heat Transfer. He was U.S. Editor of the 28th International Combustion Symposium. Dr. Gore is a Fellow of the ASME and has received the Best Paper in Heat Transfer Literature Award. He is a Fellow of the AIAA and serves as an Associate Editor of the AIAA Journal. He has received Best Paper in Heat Transfer Literature Award from the ASME. He has received the Presidential Young Investigator Award from the President of the USA. He has received Fellowships from the Japanese Ministry of Education and the U. S. Department of Energy. Jay's areas of research are energy, combustion, radiation heat transfer, biomedical engineering and diagnostics. He’s authored/coauthored ~120 archival papers, 4 book chapters, 175 conference papers, and holds 3 patents. He has directed the work of 12 Post-doctoral, 23 doctoral and 32 MS students.