Prof. D. Sakthi Kumar (www.drsakthikumar.com) currently working as Professor in Graduate School of Interdisciplinary New Science, Toyo University, Kawagoe, Saitama, Japan. He received his B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. in 1989,1991,1998 respectively from Mahatma Gandhi University of Kerala, India and Post Graduate in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI-ML) at University of Texas, Austin in 2020, MBA in Design and Leadership for Social Innovation from Shizenkan University in 2023. After receiving his Ph.D.; he worked as research associate at the Thin Film Laboratory, Dept. of Physics, IIT Delhi, India. He joined BNERC after winning prestigious JSPS, Japan postdoctoral fellowship in 2001. He is interested in the research fields such as Nanodrug delivery against cancer, AI application in Nanotechology, Nanotechnology and Biomaterials.

Prof. D. Sakthi Kumar edited 3 books. He is having more than 155 peer reviewed research articles including many review articles (17 publications appeared as cover page articles of leading journals), published many book chapters (21) and having 9 patents in his credit and delivered many plenary and invited talks (30+) in international seminars. Under his guidance 23 students received their doctoral degrees and received many international awards such as IUPAC awards, Tazilla Prank awards, best poster and presentation awards. For his work in biopolymers; The Society of Polymer Science, Japan honoured him with Asia Excellence Award in 2012. Education Excellence Award from Garshom Media Group (2018), STE International Achiever Award (2020) for his work in the field of science He is currently serving as Editorial Board Member of Scientific Reports (Nature Publishing Group) and Frontiers in Nanotechnology.Prof. Sakthi Kumar has been founded and serving as the Chairman of Indian JSPS Alumni Association (IJAA) (www.indianjspsalumni.org) since 2006