Dr. Nuggehalli M. Ravindra is a professor of physics at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. He was the Chair of the Physics Department at NJIT from 2009 to 2013 and Director of Interdisciplinary Program in Materials Science and Engineering at NJIT from 2009 to 2016. Before joining NJIT in 1987, Ravi had been associated with Vanderbilt University, the Microelectronics Center of North Carolina (MCNC), North Carolina State University, International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP- Trieste), including Politecnico di Torino and CNRS-associated labs in Paris and Montpellier.