Amit Verma (Senior Member, IEEE) received the B.Tech. degree from IIT-BHU (formerly IT-BHU), Varanasi, India, the M.S. degree from Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA, and the Ph.D. degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA. Since 2006, he has been a faculty with Texas A&M University-Kingsville (TAMUK), Kingsville, TX, USA, and is currently a Professor and Department Graduate Programs Director/Graduate Coordinator. His research interests include modeling and characterizing the electronic and optoelectronic properties of nanomaterials, developing and characterizing solar cells utilizing those materials, developing high efficiency bulk crystalline silicon, and amorphous silicon-based heterojunction solar cells. His work has also included developing a new class of ultra-thin metallic nanofilms and carbon nanotubes-based microwave antenna, and a power electronic device. He also conducts research in undergraduate engineering education and has helped develop concept inventories in undergraduate nanoelectronics courses, and basic electricity concepts. In the past, he worked on developing optical interconnects for silicon-based ICs. He was a Postdoctoral Scholar with the University Affiliated Research Center, NASA Ames Research Center, USA. He was the recipient of the “Professor of the Year” award from the 2015 Electrical Engineering graduating class at TAMUK. He is also an award-winning author of well-received works of literary fiction.