Abdallah OUGAZZADEN is a Professor at Georgia Institute of Technology (GIT)/ECE School, the Director of Georgia Tech-Lorraine, the European Campus of GIT in France, the Co-Founder and Co-President of Lafayette Institute a platform of Innovation and Technology Transfer. He was a leader in creating the Joint International Research Lab between GIT and CNRS and then has served as the director for three terms. He worked in R&D as a senior researcher and a group leader at CNET /France Telecom (France) for more than eight years and one year at Optoplus/Alcatel (France) as the Optoelectronic Materials Group Manager. In 1999, he joined Bell Labs at Lucent Technologies (USA), as an Epitaxy and materials characterization Manager for Optical Fiber Communication. He kept this position with Agere Systems (USA) and then he worked as an R&D and Fab Manager at TriQuint Semiconductor (USA). Dr. Ougazzaden joined in Georgia Institute of Technology in 2005. His current research activity is in the field of wide-bandgap semiconductors, two dimensional (2D) materials, and related devices for optoelectronic applications. He has authored more than 450 international scientific papers and communications and holds 26 patents. He contributed to the development of the first laser semiconductor at 1.3 micron for fiber telecommunication in France and its transfer to Alcatel.