Prof Manoj Gupta is currently associated with Materials Division of the Mechanical Engineering Department of National University of Singapore. He did his Ph.D. (Materials Science) from University of California, Irvine, USA (1992), and postdoctoral research at University of Alberta, Canada in the same year. He has published about 800 peer reviewed research papers in various international journals and owns two US patents related to development of processing techniques and advanced materials. He has also co‐authored four books published by John Wiley and Springer.