Dr. Arash Takshi is a Professor at the Electrical Engineering Department in the College of Engineering at the University of South Florida. He graduated in Electronics from Amir Kabir University of Technology in Iran in 1993. He received his M.Sc. in Analog Electronics from Sharif University of Technology in Tehran in 1996. During his Ph.D. at the University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada, he worked in the field of Organic Electronics. After his graduation, he was a postdoc fellow at UBC from 2007 to 2009, working on biological-based photovoltaic devices. Shortly before joining USF in 2010, he was a Research Assistant at the University of Maryland, where he collaborated with a research group to develop an energy harvesting system for wireless sensors. Since 2010, his research group at USF (Bio-Organic Electronics Lab) has been active in the field of advanced energy materials, using conducting polymers, perovskite, and nanomaterials (Ag/ZnO nanowires, TiO2 nanoparticles, graphene, MoS2) for energy conversion, energy storage, wearable electronics, and chemical sensor applications. His research activities cover materials synthesis, device fabrication, characterization, and optimization. He has more than 100 publications in scientific journals and conference proceedings. He has received over $2M in research grants and has 17 patents related to the technologies being developed in his lab. In 2024, Takshi was selected as a Fulbright Specialist to travel to Togo to work with local experts at the University of Lome to promote their research on clean energy and photovoltaic devices.