.Dr. Ivan T. Lima Jr. is an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering with tenure at North Dakota State University in Fargo, ND, USA, where he has been a faculty member since 2003. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (Photonics) from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County in Baltimore, MD, USA in 2003. He is a registered professional engineer in the State of North Dakota. He authored or coauthored 51 archival journal papers, 93 conference papers and presentations, 3 book chapters, 1 U.S. patent, 1 U.S. patent application, and 1 provisional U.S. patent. His publications received 1675 citations (Google Scholar). He is a Senior Member of the IEEE Photonics Society, a Senior Member of Optica: Advancing Optics and Photonics Worldwide, and a Senior Member of SPIE: The International Society for Optics and Photonics. He is also a member of the Editorial Board of the journal Micromachines. His research interests include biomedical engineering and photonics.