Dr. Sumantran is Chairman of Celeris Technologies and an advisor to several Fortune-100 organizations in autos, technology, industrial equipment, and aerospace. He is the author of the book Faster, Smarter, Greener – the future of the Car and Urban Mobilitypublished by MIT Press (2017)  (www.fastersmartergreener.com) He is an Adjunct Professor at MIT-MISI, serves on the Board of Governors for the Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar and on the Advisory Board of the Fraunhofer Institutes (Germany). He was a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras and currently, Honorary Professor at Transportation Research and Injury Prevention Centre, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.