Arokia Nathan holds the Sumitomo/STS Chair of Nanotechnology at the London Centre for Nanotechnology, University College London and is a recipient of the Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award. He is also the CTO of Ignis Innovation Inc., Waterloo, Canada, a company he founded to commercialize technology on thin film silicon backplanes on rigid and flexible substrates for large area electronics. He has held Visiting Professor appointments at the Physical Electronics Laboratory, ETH Zürich and the Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, UK. He received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Alberta. He held the DALSA/NSERC Industrial Research Chair in sensor technology, was a recipient of the 2001 Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council E.W.R. Steacie Fellowship, and was awarded the Canada Research Chair in nano-scale flexible circuits. He has published extensively in the field of sensor technology and CAD, and thin film transistor electronics, and has over 40 patents filed/awarded. He is a co-author of two books, Microtransducer CAD and CCD Image Sensors in Deep-Ultraviolet, and serves on technical committees and editorial boards at various capacities.