Samee U. Khan received a doctorate in 2007 from the University of Texas Arlington. He is professor and head of the Mike Wiegers Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Kansas State University. Before joining K-State, he was a faculty member at Mississippi State University (MSU), serving as department head and the James W. Bagley chair from 2020 to 2024. He started his career at North Dakota State University (NDSU) in 2008 and rose through the ranks to become the Walter B. Booth professor. While at NDSU, he was assigned to the National Science Foundation (2016-2020) as cluster lead for computer systems research within the computer and network systems division, where he managed a portfolio of more than: 500 active projects, 700 distinct investigators and $160 million.