Prof. Deep is a professor in the School of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania. He has made contributions to the research of charge transport and electronic applications of two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors, and pioneered the study of adjustable gate, hybrid dimensional, and van der Waals heterostructures at Northwestern University. In August 2015, Deep joined the California Institute of Technology as a Resnick Award postdoctoral researcher. His goal is to study strategies to enhance the light-matter interaction in the two-dimensional system of high-efficiency, ultra-thin optoelectronic devices. Deep’s research is at the intersection of solid-state optoelectronics and emerging low-dimensional materials, combining new technologies for assembling, growing, and integrating nanostructured materials, including molecular materials and the most advanced nanomanufacturing methods, to create new types of electronic and photonic devices.