Dr. Rajiv Dubey is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Director of the Center for Assistive, Rehabilitation & Robotics Technologies (CARRT) at the University of South Florida. He received his bachelor's degree from IIT Bombay and master's and doctoral degrees from Clemson University, all in Mechanical Engineering. Before coming to USF, Dr. Dubey was a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. His research interests include assistive robotics, prosthetics, rehabilitation engineering, and robotics in healthcare, space, undersea, and nuclear waste management. He has published over 275 refereed articles and directed over seventy Ph.D. dissertations and MS theses. He has been issued six full US patents. He was an Associate Editor of the prestigious IEEE Journal on Robotics and Automation for eight years and has been on numerous organizing committees for major international conferences in robotics, including ICRA and IROS. Dr. Dubey has received over $40 million in research funding as a Principal Investigator from various agencies, including NSF, NASA, Department of Defense, Department of Energy, Department of Education, and the private sector. He is a regular reviewer on NSF panels (CISE, RAPD), including NSF Blue Ribbon panels. Dr. Dubey has served as a Director on the USF Research Foundation Board and on several advisory boards, including VA HSR&D/RR&D Center of Innovation on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (CINDRR) and Tampa Museums of Science and Industry (MOSI). He is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and a Member of the National Academy of Inventors.