Dr. Prem Pal did his M.Tech. in Solid State Material (SSM) in December 1999 and Ph.D. in the area of MEMS in December 2004, both from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi), India. The Foundation for Innovation and Technology Transfer (FITT), IIT Delhi awarded his thesis for 'Best Industry Relevant Ph.D Project-2005'. From July 2005 to June 2006, he worked as Postdoctoral Researcher at Yonsei Microsystems Laboratory (YML), School of Mechanical Engineering, Yonsei University Seoul, South Korea. He worked in Sato laboratory, Department of Micro-Nano Systems Engineering, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan: from July 2006 to March 2008 as COE Scientist and from March 2008 to March 2010 as JSPS Fellow. Since April 2010, he has been working as Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad. Dr. Prem Pal established MEMS and Micro/Nano Systems Laboratory in IIT Hyderabad. He has made an outstanding contribution to the field of MEMS, in particular to wet chemical based silicon micromachining for the micro/nanofabrication. He has published more than 40 papers in peer reviewed international journals of high impact factors. In addition, he has filed two patents in India during his Ph.D in IIT Delhi and two in Japan during his Postdoctoral Research in Nagoya University (2006-2010). He was involved in developing Etching Simulator (IntelliEtch), one of the modules of Intellisuite software for MESM design which is widely used for MEMS simulation. His research interests include MEMS/Microelectronics technology, MEMS based mechanical and bio/chemical sensors, Microbolometer, Silicon Micromachining, Thin films for MEMS.