Dr. Milad Navaei is a principle research scientist at the Cybersecurity, Information Protection, and Hardware Evaluation Research Laboratory (CIPHER) at the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI). Dr. Navaei received his PhD and MS degrees from Georgia Tech in 2015 and 2011 respectively.  His research group specializes in micro/nanofabrication techniques, Quantum and chemical sensors, miniature gas chromatography systems, synthetic biology, drug delivery, and sensors for detection of microbial contamination. He has successfully secured and managed over $20 million in federal and state grants as the principal investigator on IARPA project and co-PI on DoD-funded projects (ONR, DARPA, and OSD). His work so far has led to numerous journal publications, conference presentations and US patents. Dr. Navaei has served as a reviewer for several peer reviewed journal publications including the Journal of Microsystems and Nanoengineering (Nature) and Journal of Electrochemical Society