Bhaskar Upadhyay is a Rodney Wallace Professor for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning in Comparative and International Development Education (CIDE) program, Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development (OLPD), College of Education and Human Development (CEHD), University of Minnesota. He graduated from The University of Texas at Austin with a focus on comparative and international science education, student experiences in higher education, equity, and social justice. His research, teaching, and service focus on issues of equity, social justice, indigeneity, research methodologies, ethics in research, and mentoring in STEAM education in Indigenous and urban communities in the United States and the Global South. He has published more than forty research papers and book chapters in his areas of research. He is currently the Director of Graduate Studies (DGS) in OLPD. He served as the Associate Head of the Department of Curriculum and Instruction for one year. He has received numerous awards and was an Executive Board member of the National Association for the Research in Science Teaching (NARST).