Anupama B. Kaul is the PACCAR Professor of Engineering at the University of North Texas (UNT) and serves as Director of the Nanoscale Materials and Devices Laboratory and the PACCAR Technology Institute. Her funded research as PI and/or Co-PI has originated through the support of agencies such as the ONR, AFOSR, ARO, NSF, NRO and NASA, as well as industry. Prior to UNT, Dr. Kaul was Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies in the College of Engineering and held the AT&T Distinguished Professorship in ECE at the University of Texas, El Paso. Dr. Kaul has served as a Program Director at NSF in the ECCS Division, where she was on rotation as an IPA from JPL, Caltech. She serves on the External Advisory Board of Penn State University’s Two-dimensional (2D) Crystal Consortium (2DCC) – MIP. She was also Chair and PI of the NSF US EU Workshop on 2D Layered Materials and Devices held in 2015 with the European Union (EU) Graphene Flagship Program. Dr. Kaul is the recipient of the NSF’s Director’s Award for Program Management Excellence, the NASA Service Award, a NASA Team Technical Accomplishment Award, multiple NASA Patent Awards and numerous NASA Technology Brief Awards for her research. She was selected to be a participant at the US National Academy of Engineering (NAE) 2012 Frontiers of Engineering (FOE) Symposium, and in 2014 she was invited to participate in the bi-lateral Indo-US FOE, also organized by the US NAE. She currently serves on the Editorial Board of a number of journals. Dr. Kaul obtained her M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in MSE with minors in ECE and Physics where she was advised by Professor Theodore Van Duzer (ECE), an NAE member, and Professor Timothy D. Sands (co-advisor, MSE) who is the current President of Virginia Tech.