Richard D. Gitlin, Sc.D. is Distinguished University Professor Emeritus, Department of Electrical Engineering, USF College of Engineering; and Professor in the USF Institute of Advanced Discovery & Innovation. For 12 years prior, he served as the State of Florida 21st Century Scholar, Distinguished University Professor, and Agere Systems Endowed Chair in Electrical Engineering. Dr. Gitlin's pioneering research focused on leading edge digital communications, broadband networking, and wireless systems. For many years, prior to joining USF, at his retirement he was Senior VP for Bell Labs' Communications and Networking Research, managing a team of more than 600 engineers; and later Chief Technology Officer for Lucent's Data Networking Business Unit. Dr. Gitlin co-invented DSL (Digital Subscriber Line) in 1985. His research at USF included the intersection of communications with medicine to advance minimally invasive surgery and other cyber-physical health care systems; and creating foundational technologies to ensure ultra-reliability, low latency, and other advanced technologies for the 5G wireless and IoT wireless networks, as well as the future 6G wireless networks. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering; the Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine of Florida; Fellow of IEEE; Bell Laboratories Fellow; Charter Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors; co-recipient of the Thomas Alva Edison Patent Award and the S.O. Rice Prize; and a member of the Florida Inventors Hall of Fame. He has published 74 U.S. patents. He earned his B.E.E. from The City College of New York, and his Master's and doctoral degrees from Columbia University.