Dr. Erwin Gianchandani is the National Science Foundation (NSF) Senior Advisor for Translation, Innovation, and Partnerships. For the last five and one-half years, he has been the NSF Deputy Assistant Director for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE). In this role, he has contributed to the leadership and management of NSF’s CISE directorate, including formulation and implementation of the directorate’s $1 billion annual budget, strategic and human capital planning, and oversight of day-to-day operations. In recent years, he has led the development and launch of several new NSF investments, including Smart & Connected Communities, Platforms for Advanced Wireless Research, and the National Artificial Intelligence Research Institutes. Before joining NSF in 2012, Dr. Gianchandani was the inaugural Director of the Computing Community Consortium, providing leadership to the computing research community in identifying and pursuing audacious, high-impact research directions. He has published extensively and presented at international conferences on computational systems biology. He holds a B.S. in computer science and M.S. and Ph.D. in biomedical engineering from the University of Virginia.