Supriyo Bandyopadhyay is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Professor of Physics at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia. His research interests are in nanoelectronics, spintronics and nanostructured devices. He has authored and/or co-authored more than 300 peer reviewed research articles, edited and co-edited several books and authored some twenty chapters in books. He is the Chair of the Technical Committee on Compound Semiconductor Devices and Circuits in the Electron Device Society, and Chair of the Technical Committee on Spintronics in the Nanotechnology Council of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Currently, he serves as a Vice President of the Nanotechnology Council of the IEEE. He is an IEEE EDS Distinguished Lecturer and the recipient of many research awards. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, a Fellow of the American Physical Society, a Fellow of the Institute of Physics (UK), a Fellow of the Electrochemical Society and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.