Prof. Sachchida Nand Tripathi is the inaugural Dean of Kotak School of Sustainability at IIT Kanpur and Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering and jointly with the Department of Sustainable Energy Engineering. He is currently leading the Center of Excellence on Advanced Technologies for Monitoring Air quality iNdicator (ATMAN) and is also the Project Director of the “AI Centre of Excellence (AI-CoE) for Sustainable Cities”. His broad research areas include sustainability, aerosol cloud interaction, climate change, real-time source apportionment, AI/ML-enabled dynamic hyper-local air quality monitoring, and indigenous portable and affordable sensors development.