I received my Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. I now hold a Professor position at the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department of Old Dominion University (ODU) and I am the Director of ODU’s Plasma Engineering & Medicine Institute (PEMI). My research interests are in the physics and applications of non-equilibrium gaseous discharges including the biomedical applications of low temperature plasma (LTP). I designed and developed numerous well known LTP devices such as the resistive barrier discharge (RBD) and the plasma pencil. I am co-discoverer of guided ionization waves in low temperature plasma jets. I am also known for conducting the first experiments on the use of low temperature atmospheric pressure plasmas for biomedical applications and contributed to the establishment of the interdisciplinary field of “Plasma Medicine”. I have authored or co-authored two books and more than 200 papers in journals and conference proceedings. I am a Fellow of IEEE (since 2009). Some of my awards are the IEEE Millennium Medal (2000), the ODU Excellence in Research Award (2009), the Inaugural Award of the International Society of Plasma Medicine (2010), and the 2012 IEEE-NPSS Merit Award.