Shayok Mukhopadhyay (Senior Member, IEEE) received a PhD in electrical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA, in 2014. Following this, he worked at the Department of Electrical Engineering, American University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates (UAE) until August 2023. He has been an Associate Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Computer Science at the University of New Haven, West Haven, CT, USA since fall 2023. His research interests include robotics and automation, control systems, nonlinear systems, mechatronics, renewable energy systems, computational methods, battery modelling and failure detection, and robotic path planning. He was the recipient of the Award for the Best Presentation in the Nonlinear Systems III Session from the American Control Conference 2014. He was a part of a five-person team that received an award in the national category of the UAE AI and Robotics for Good Awards in 2017 for developing an in-pipe inspection robot. He also served as the Chair of the IEEE UAE section CSS/RAS/EMBS joint chapter from 2022 to 2023. He has served on the IEEE CSS Technology Conferences Editorial Board since July 2023.