John Lach,Professor and Chair of Charles L. Brown Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,University of Virginia.His primary research interests are embedded and cyber-physical systems, smart and connected health, body sensor networks, integrated circuit design methodologies, fault and defect tolerance, safety-critical system design and analysis, and application-specific and general-purpose processor design. He has been the PI or co-PI on over 35 grants totaling over $16M (over $6.5M directed to my lab) and have published over 150 refereed papers, including five Best Paper Awards. My research group has won two conference poster competitions and the 2011 DAC/ISSCC Student Design Contest. He is a founder and Steering Committee member of the Wireless Health Conference Series, a founder and co-director of the UVA Center for Wireless Health, and Associate Director for Translational Research for the NSF Nanosystems Engineering Research Center for Advanced Self-Powered Systems of Integrated Sensors and Technologies (ASSIST). I won an All-University Teaching Award in 2005 and the UVA School of Engineering and Applied Science Distinguished Faculty Award in 2016.