Prasant Mohapatra, PhD, serves as the University of South Florida Provost and Interim Vice President of USF Research. Prior to joining USF, he served as the Vice Chancellor for Research at the University of California, Davis, where he was instrumental in leading and achieving the aspiration goal of one billion dollars in annual research awards. He was also a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Computer Science and served as Department Chair, Dean, Vice Provost, and Associate Chancellor at the University of California, Davis. Dr. Mohapatra has also held Visiting Scientist/Professor positions at Intel Corporation, AT&T, Siemens, Panasonic Technologies, Institute of Infocomm Research, Singapore, National ICT Australia, University of Padova, Italy, Yonsei University and KAIST, South Korea. Dr. Mohapatra is an accomplished researcher in the fields of wireless networks, artificial intelligence, and cybersecurity, and he co-holds eight U.S. patents. He has published more than 400 papers in reputed conferences and journals on these topics. Dr. Mohapatras research has been funded through collaborative grants totaling about 90 million US dollars from the National Science Foundation, US Department of Defense, US Army Research Labs, Intel Corporation, Siemens, Panasonic Technologies, Hewlett Packard, Raytheon, ARM Research, Bosch, and EMC Corporation. Dr. Mohapatra received his doctoral degree from Penn State University in 1993 and received an Outstanding Engineering Alumni Award in 2008. He also received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, India. Dr. Mohapatra received an Outstanding Research Faculty Award at the University of California, Davis. Dr. Mohapatra was the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. He has served on the editorial board of the leading journals in the areas of computer science. He has served as the Program Chair and General Chair and has been on several international conferences' program/organizational committees. He also serves on various industrial advisory and governing boards. He also received multiple HP Labs Innovation awards. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and a Fellow of AAAS. He has been inducted into the Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine of Florida and the Pan American Academy of Engineering.