Supriyo Bandyopadhyay, Ph.D., is Commonwealth Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Commonwealth University, where he directs the Quantum Device Laboratory. Research conducted in the laboratory has been frequently featured in international media, journals, TV, newspapers, and internet blogs. He has authored over 400 research publications and given over 150 invited keynote or plenary talks across four continents. Professor Bandyopadhyay was named “Virginia’s Outstanding Scientist” by Governor Terrence McAuliffe in 2016 and won the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia Outstanding Faculty Award in 2018. He was given the “University Award of Excellence” by his university in 2017; it is the highest award given by his university to one faculty member in a given year. Dr. Bandyopadhyay is the 2020 recipient of the IEEE Pioneer in Nanotechnology Award. He is a Fellow of IEEE, American Physical Society, Institute of Physics, the Electrochemical Society, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.