Vincent Harris (B.Sc., M.Sc., Ph.D., M.Sc., M.Eng.) has had a distinguished career as an engineer, scientist, inventor, educator, and entrepreneur for nearly three decades. He presently holds positions as University Distinguished Professor and William Lincoln Smith Chair at Northeastern University. He is the Founder and Director of the Center for Microwave Magnetic Materials and Integrated Circuits and Metamagnetics Inc. Prior to holding these positions, he was a member of the technical staff, Head of the Complex Materials Section, and Head of the Materials Physics Branch at the Naval Research Laboratory (Washington, DC). During 2008-2010, he held a guest appointment at the Naval Postgraduate School (Monterey, CA USA) as Professor of the National Security Institute. His research interests include materials design and the study of processing, structure and magnetism in a wide range of electronic materials and devices used principally in high frequency applications such as sensors, radar and communication systems and platforms. He has published more than 380 technical articles (>13,000 citations) in peer-reviewed science and engineering journals, including book chapters, review articles, and invited technical feature articles on the topical areas of nanotechnology, magnetism, and RF materials and devices. He has been elevated to Fellow of the AAAS, IEEE, American Physical Society, and the Institute of Physics (UK). In 2016, Harris served as a Fulbright Fellow.