Valery Ya. Rudyak is a leading scientist at Novosibirsk State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering and the Institute of Thermophysics of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He is a Doctor of Science in Physics and Mathematics and a Professor in theoretical mechanics. His main research interests include nonequilibrium statistical mechanics, kinetic theory of gases, rarefied gas dynamics, physics and mechanics of transport processes, transport processes in nanofluids, flows in microchannels, nanofluid flows, molecular dynamics modeling, CFD, and laminar-turbulent transition.