Oluwaseyi Balogun, PhD., is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Mechanical Engineering at Northwestern University. He received the Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Boston University in 2006 and completed post-doctorate fellowships in the Materials Science and Engineering Department at The Johns Hopkins University and the Engineering Directorate at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory before joining the faculty at Northwestern University. Dr. Balogun directs an interdisciplinary research group that develops optical methods for nondestructive materials characterization, elastic wave propagation studies, nanoscale heat conduction investigations, and scanning probe microscopy based imaging. He is an Adcom member of the IEEE UFFC and IEEE Nanotechnology societies and a 2020 Distinguished Lecturer recipient from the IEEE Nanotechnology Council.