Dr. Ishwar K. Puri is Senior Vice President, Research & Innovation at USC and oversees over $1 billion of research and commercialization. He is a Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and the Canadian Academy of Engineering, . Dr. Puri is the author of over 200 archival publications, books and patents that have been cited over 9,000 times per Google Scholar with an H-Index of 54. He is ranked among the top 2% of scientists in the world based on the citations of those who published between 1965-2019 and has founded and mentored startups. He serves on the editorial board of Scientific Reports and is an associate editor of Research, a Science partner journal.