Prof. Pawan Tyagi is currently leading the NSF-CREST Center for Nanoscale Research and Education (CNRE). He is also the director of the DOE-NNSA-Sponsored Consortium of Additive Manufacturing Post Processing Partnerships (AMP3); his consortium is a group of four HBCUs and three DOE industries. Prof. Pawan Tyagi's expertise is in the area of integrating nanomaterials into devices and sensors for advancing futuristic computer technology, biomedical devices, energy technology, and advanced manufacturing. He has made a seminal contribution in the area of tunnel-junction-based molecular spintronics devices. At the University of the District of Columbia, he is serving as the founder and director of the Nanotechnology Application Laboratory and leading several federally funded projects. Prof. Tyagi has published more than 50 publications, including more than 15 students as co-authors. He has two awarded patents and five pending patents. Two of the pending patents are with his undergraduate and graduate students. Prof. Tyagi has 24 years of experience in materials science arising from his BS and MS in metallurgical and materials engineering at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), industrial career, doctoral study at the University of Kentucky, and postdoctoral research at Johns Hopkins University. Prof. Tyagi is a passionate teacher and has attained training in effective teaching from renowned teaching experts.