Dimitrios Peroulis is the Senior Vice President for Partnerships and Online and the Reilly Professor of the Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Purdue University. From 2019–23 he served as the Michael and Katherine Birck Head of ECE and special adviser to the Dean of Engineering on online learning. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 2003. Peroulis’ research interests are focused on the areas of reconfigurable systems, plasma RF electronics, and RF-assisted lyophilization. He has been a key contributor in developing high-quality widely-tunable filters and novel filter architectures based on miniaturized high-Q cavity-based resonators. He received the National Science Foundation CAREER award in 2008. He is an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Fellow and has co-authored more than 450 journal and conference papers. In 2019, he received the “Tatsuo Itoh” Award and in 2014 he received the Outstanding Young Engineer Award from the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S). In 2012, he received the Outstanding Paper Award from the IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Society (Ferroelectrics section). His students have received numerous student paper awards and other student research-based scholarships. He has been a Purdue University Faculty Scholar and has also received 11 teaching awards including the 2010 HKN C. Holmes MacDonald Outstanding Teaching Award and the 2010 Charles B. Murphy award, which is Purdue University's highest undergraduate teaching honor.