Sakhrat Khizroev is Victor P Clarke Endowed Chair Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at the College of Engineering of the University of Miami (the U), with a secondary appointment at the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the Miller School of Medicine. His expertise is in the area of nanomagnetic/magnetoelectric devices to enable a broad spectrum of applications ranging from energy-efficient computing (brain-like and quantum computing architectures) to healthcare and medicine (Brain-Computer Interface (BCI), theranostics). Before joining the U, Khizroev also served as a tenured professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California (UC) at Riverside and Florida International University (FIU) where he co-founded Center for Personalized Nanomedicine - a university-wide research center of excellence. He is most known for (1) leading the groundbreaking experiments in the joint IBM Almaden Research-Carnegie Mellon effort that led to the shift of the magnetic data storage industry towards Perpendicular Magnetic Recording (PMR) – the key technology used to store data in modern data centers; and (2) pioneering the use of magnetoelectric nanoparticles (MENPs) for game-changing biomedical applications, e.g., two-way brain-computer interface (BCI) and cancer theranostics (along with Dr. Ping Liang). Prior to his academic career, Khizroev spent four years as a research staff member with Seagate Research (1999-2003) and one year as a doctoral intern with IBM Almaden Research Center (1997-1998). Khizroev is a Lifetime Fellow of National Academy of Inventors (NAI) (elected 2012). The research activities in his group have been supported through government and private grants, with a net amount of over $25mln. He holds 41 granted U.S. patents, graduated over 34 PhD and 30 MS Graduate Students, supervised over 10 post-doctoral researchers, and mentored 4 young faculty investigators, authored over 140 refereed papers, 8 books and book chapters, presented over 100 talks including many invited talks at international conferences, acted as a guest science and technology commentator on television and radio programs across the globe. He was one of the founding associate editors for IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology, a guest editor for Nanotechnology and IEEE Transactions on Magnetics. Khizroev received a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 1999, MS in Physics from the University of Miami in 1994, and BS in Physics from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (Phystech) in 1992.