Greetings From the Editor in Chief

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I am currently the Twenty-First Century Endowed Chair in Nano- and Bio-Technology and Medicine, and Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering and Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering (College of Engineering) and Neurosurgery (College of Medicine) at University of Arkansas, and Professor of Neurosurgery at Penn State Hershey Medical Center. I joined the University of Arkansas in January 2005 after serving on the faculty of Cornell University, Ohio State University, and Pennsylvania State University for the past 32 years. I am the Director of the NSF Center of Excellence for Nano-, Bio-, and Info-Tech Sensors and Systems and the Director of the High Density Electronics Center. I am a fellow of ASME, SPIE, Institute of Physics, and Acoustical Society of America. I have been awarded honorary doctorate degrees in Nano-, Bio-Technologies and Medicine and have many visiting professorship appointments in leading schools overseas. I have extensive experience as Editor-in-Chief of Smart Materials and Structures (published by the Institute of Physics, London) for the past 16 years.