Shayok Mukhopadhyay (Senior Member, IEEE) received his B.E. and M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering from the College of Engineering Pune, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune, MH, India in 2006, and the Utah State University, Logan UT, USA in 2009 respectively. He received his Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA, in 2014. Following this, he was with the Department of Electrical Engineering, American University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates (UAE), till Aug. 2023. His research interests include robotics and automation, control systems, nonlinear systems, mechatronics, renewable energy systems, computational methods, battery modeling and failure detection, and robotic path planning. Dr. Mukhopadhyay was the recipient of the Award for the Best Presentation in the Nonlinear Systems III Session from the American Control Conference 2014. He was a part of five-person team that received the national category of the AI and Robotics for Good Award for developing an in-pipe inspection robot, UAE, 2017. He has also served as the Chair of IEEE UAE section CSS/RAS/EMBS joint chapter from 2022 to 2023.