Kris Singh is a professor in the USF Institute for Advanced Discovery & Innovation and the Founder, President and CEO of Holtec International, a multi-national company with its business footprint in 18 countries on five continents. He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, and M.S. in Engineering Mechanics from the University of Pennsylvania, and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from BIT Sindri (Ranchi University), India. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2013 for his seminal impact in the energy sector of mechanical engineering. He received Edison Foundation's "Thomas Alva Edison Award" in 2015 for ecologically and environmentally impactful inventions. Rutgers University named him "South Jerseyan of the Year - 2016" for his significant beneficial impact on the South Jersey region. He is an elected Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (2017) and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1987) for numerous contributions to heat exchange technologies; and an inductee of the University City Science Center (Philadelphia) Walk of Fame. He is a registered Professional Engineer in Pennsylvania (since 1974) and Michigan (since 1982), and a member of the American Nuclear Society (1979-present). A widely-published author in scientific journals (>70 technical papers, one textbook, and numerous symposia volumes) and a prolific inventor (121 patents), in recent years he has led Holtec in developing a "walk away safe" small modular reactor to make nuclear energy an economical "green power" alternative. An intrepid entrepreneur and a socially conscious industrialist, he built a $310 million Technology Campus on the Delaware River in Camden, NJ to create much needed employment in one of America's poorest cities. He is currently an Emeritus member of the University of Pennsylvania's board of trustees, where he served from 2009-2017, and a member of the university's Board of Overseers for the School of Engineering and Applied Science (2005-present). In addition, he serves on the board of the Nuclear Energy Institute (1998-present), and the Cooper Health System (2013-present). He is also a director of the Washington, DC-based Atlantic Council, and member of the National Investment Council that advises the President of Ukraine. He chairs the KPS Foundation (2001present), a charitable Singh family foundation whose signature contribution to the advancement of science is the completion of the Krishna P. Singh Center for Nanotechnology at the University of Pennsylvania (2013). The KPS Foundation is also active in improving child literacy and public sanitation in India.