Sanjukta Bhanja serves as Associate Dean for Academics and Student Affairs in the College of Engineering. In her current role, she oversees graduate and undergraduate academics including curriculum, assessment, first-year student experience, advising, and student success. She co-founded "Academy of Distinguished Engineering Educator" (ADE2) in the College of Engineering and she is the Director of the College-wide National Academy of Engineering Grand Challenges Scholars Program (GCSP). She has championed college-wide experiential design-thinking for first-year students and vertically-integrated Engineering communication competencies embedded throughout the curriculum. She is also a Professor in the Electrical Engineering department. Her primary research focus is in non-CMOS nano-computing, exploring novel state variables, alternate computing paradigm with heterogeneous devices, VLSI design automation with an emphasis on data-driven uncertainties at various levels of design abstractions. She has published more than a hundred publications in top-tier peer-reviewed journals and conferences in VLSI and nano-electronics. She also holds four patents in the field of Computer Engineering. She is currently advising four doctoral students and two undergraduate students; she has graduated eleven doctoral students and fifteen MS students, who have placed in high-tech industries and academia. She has been an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems (current) and the ACM Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems (current), and participates in leadership roles in organizing committees and technical Program Committees of various IEEE and ACM conferences. She serves on the steering committee of IEEE ISVLSI and ACM GLSVLSI. Sanjukta Bhanja received a Bachelor's degree and an MS Degree in Electrical Engineering from Jadavpur University, Calcutta, and the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore respectively. She received a Doctoral Degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of South Florida. She is the recipient of the New Researcher Award from the University of South Florida, NSF CAREER award, USF Tau Beta Pi "Outstanding Engineering Faculty Researcher" award, USF "Outstanding Faculty Research Achievement Award", Florida Education Foundation (F.E.F) William Jones Outstanding Mentor award, and USF Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award.