Bahgat G. Sammakia is Distinguished SUNY Professor; Vice President of Research; Director, S3IP and Director of the Center for Energy-Smart Electronic Systems at Binghamton University. He was employed by IBM Endicott from 1984 until 1998, and held various management positions, including managing the thermal and mechanical analysis groups, the surface science group, the chemical lab, the site technical assurance group and his last position as manager of development for organic packaging in the IBM Microelectronics Division. Sammakia holds seven U.S. patents and 12 IBM technical disclosures; he has published over 50 technical papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings and has contributed to three books on natural convection heat transfer and electronics packaging. Dr. Sammakia holds a BS from the University of Alexandria, and MS, PhD from State University of New York at Buffalo.