Dr. Shreekanth (Shreek) Mandayam is the Vice President for Research at Texas State University. Dr. Mandayam leads the Division of Research (which includes the offices of Research Operations, Sponsored Programs, Research Development, and Innovation & Commercialization) university-level research centers, the Science, Technology, and Advanced Research (STAR) Park, and serves as the university’s liaison to The Texas State University System’s Office of Governmental Relations. Professor of Electrical Engineering and an active scholar whose research expertise is in the area of advanced visualization and virtual reality. He is the founder and lead investigator in Rowan University’s Virtual Reality (VR) Center, where he has secured over $15 million in funding for research projects sponsored by the National Science Foundation, NASA, U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Department of Energy, Elekta Corporation, Medtronic, and others. In executing projects in the VR Center, he has partnered with faculty from a variety of disciplines, including those in engineering, the humanities, social sciences, communications, medicine, fine arts, performing arts, science, and mathematics. Dr. Mandayam has authored over 90 publications in peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings and has advised 30 master’s and doctoral students