Prof Sain serves as the Founding Director of Centre for Biocomposites and Biomaterials Processing since year 2001 and he is the founding Endowed Ford Motor Canada Chair Professor in Sustainable Materials in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at the University of Toronto, a world’s No.1 University in Sustainability. Acting as a founding Director of Centre for Biocomposites and Biomaterials Processing, first of its kind research commercialization driven by transdisciplinary education, training and research, centre focuses on sustainable and low carbon materials. Formerly Dean of Faculty of Forestry, University of Toronto. Prof. Sain provided leadership and vision with a transdisciplinary approach.   As a highly accomplished researcher-entrepreneur and Hi-Cited research scholar with an impressive record of impactful publications, including Nature and Science family of journals, he also founded multiple-successful spin-off companies with his collaborative approach.

Prof. Sain, a fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry, Royal Society of Canada and Canadian Academy of Engineers. He was awarded honorary degree Doctor Honoris Causa. Prof. Sain is known globally for his pioneering work on the Biocar Initiative: in 2009, an issue of Toronto Life magazine featured his idea as second best among 25 World Changing Ideas from the Smartest Torontonians. After graduating from IIT, Kharagpore, he briefly served Tata Cables and Nicco Furmanite as an R&D Manager before moving to Europe for his doctoral research as a UNESCO fellow. Since 1989, he served several industries in consulting positions including Barum, Europe and Aspen Research Division of Anderson Corp, St Paul, USA. Prof. Sain holds numerous prestigious international and national awards: A few recent ones are the North American Entrepreneurship Award, the Plastic Innovation Award and the KALEV PUGI Award for innovation and contribution to industry.

He is world-renowned for his expertise in transforming research idea into commercialization. Among his co-founded companies that are spin-offs from his research findings. Natures Affinity Inc. HyCLight Inc. Greencore Composites Inc and GreenNano Technologies Inc made a distinct impact in societal value addition in sustainable and renewable products and manufacturing.

To date he has made over 100 technology transfers to industries and has helped create new companies for making products including circular materials economy, Biomass and CO₂ to Hydrogen, waste plastics and solid management and value-creation, Battery and Fuel Cell energy materials, CO₂ capture and utilization, Lightweight functional products, biomedical devices. He also served G20 advisory Committee Bioeconomy lead and founding member of many recycling and sustainable materials NGOs including CNCC ( Canadian natural Composite Council (2000), BioAuto Council (2008).