Prof. Srinivas Sridhar is a distinguished Professor of Physics, Biomedical Engineering, and Chemical Engineering at Northeastern University, and a Visiting Lecturer on Radiation Oncology at Harvard Medical School. He is the Director and Principal Investigator of the Nanomedicine Academy and the NIH CaNCURE programs, and the founding director of the Nanomedicine Innovation Center. From 2004 to 2008, Prof. Srinivas Sridhar served as Vice-Provost for Research at Northeastern University, overseeing the University’s research portfolio. His current areas of research are nanomedicine and neurotechnology. His paper in Nature in 2003 was listed among the Breakthroughs of 2003 by the journal Science. He has published more than 400 articles on his work in nanomedicine, neurotechnology, nanophotonics, metamaterials, quantum chaos, superconductivity, and collective excitations in materials. Prof. Srinivas Sridhar is an elected Fellow of the American Physical Society, the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineers and the National Academy of Inventors, and he was awarded the 2016 Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) Diversity Award.