Prof. Navakanta Bhat is the Dean of the Division of Interdisciplinary Science and Professor in the Centre for Nano Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Science Bangalore. He obtained his M. Tech. And Ph.d. degree in Electrical Engineering from IIT Bombay and the Stanford University in 1992 and 1996 respectively. Prof. Bhat worked as a Senior Device Engineer at Motorola’s Networking and Computing Systems Group under Advanced Products R&D Lab (APRDL) in Austin, TX until 1999. At Motorola, he worked on logic technology development and was responsible for developing high performance transistor design and dual gate oxide technology for PowerPC microprocessors. Prof. Bhat joined the Indian Institute of Science Bangalore in 1999, as an Assistant Professor in the ECE department. rough highly interdisciplinary collaboration with other colleagues, he was responsible for a major initiative at IISc in Nanoelectronics, which eventually led to the creation of Centre for Nano Science and Engineering (CeNSE) at IISc. Prof. Bhat was instrumental in creating the National Nanofabrication Centre (NNfC), benchmarked against the best university facilities in the world. In 2010, he moved from ECE to CeNSE as one of the founding faculty and became the Chair of the department in 2016. From 2020 Prof. Bhat has been the Dean of Division of Interdisciplinary Sciences at IISc. During 2015-16, Prof. Bhat was on sabbatical leave from IISc, to co-found a start-up, PathShodh Healthcare Pvt. Ltd., and served as the CEO of the company. At PathShodh, Prof Bhat continues as Prof. Navakanta Bhat M. Tech., 1992, Electrical Engineering 29 non-executive Chair of Board of Governors.