Robert Magnusson received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Tech. He is Texas Instruments Distinguished University Chair in Nanoelectronics and Professor of Electrical Engineering at UT Arlington. Current theoretical and experimental research addresses periodic micro- and nanostructures, metamaterials, nanolithography, IR optical components, photonics, nanoelectronics, lasers, and optical bio- and chemical sensors. He has authored 500 journal and conference papers and 40 patents. He is a Fellow of Optica and SPIE, a Life Fellow of IEEE, and a Charter Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors. He is Co-founder and Chief Technical Officer of Resonant Sensors Incorporated, a company that provides next-generation optical sensor systems for pharmaceutical and biotech customers for biomedical diagnostics including Covid-19. He is founder and Chief Executive Officer of Tiwaz Technologies LLC with aim to develop new IR optical component technology.