Janakarajan Ramkumar (Senior Member, IEEE) received the B.E. degree in production engineering from Regional Engineering College (REC) Trichy, Tiruchirappalli, India, in 1996, and the M.Tech. degree in computer-integrated manufacturing and the Ph.D. degree in manufacturing from IIT Madras, Chennai, India, in 2000 and 2003, respectively. He was a Postdoctoral Researcher with Osaka Prefecture University, Sakai, Japan. In 2003, he then joined, as an Assistant Professor, the Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Kanpur, Kanpur, India, where he is currently a Professor. He has more than 185 peer-reviewed articles in journals. He holds more than 40 patents. His research interests include sustainable metamaterials and inclusive socioeconomic innovation. Dr. Ramkumar is a recipient of several awards, both national and international.