Dr. Wei Zhou is Director of the Micro-/Nanofabrication Cleanroom and Laboratory and a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech. He also serves as a Special Advisor to the Senior Vice President for Research and Innovation on AI-Guided Semiconductor Manufacturing and as a Faculty Associate at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). His research addresses the grand challenge of enabling bidirectional, spatiotemporal bio-information flow to shift medicine, agriculture, and environmental monitoring from reactive to proactive paradigms. To achieve this, his lab advances AI-Native Hybrid Optical-Electrical Nano-Bio Interfaces —scalable platforms that fuse nanophotonics, nanoelectronics, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) analytics to manipulate photons, charges, and molecules at the nanoscale. Key platform innovations include: (1) Scalable Nano-Optoelectrode Arrays: Engineering hierarchical devices for closed-loop, multimodal monitoring and control of cellular networks. (2) Advanced Nanophotonic Platforms: Designing broadband, multiresonant nanocavities to explore quantum-enhanced optical phenomena for ultra-sensitive biosensing and imaging. This work is engineered to create field-deployable sensors, on-chip cyber-physical-biological systems, and proactive health technologies for early-warning diagnostics and multi-modal therapeutics. Dr. Zhou is a recipient of the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) Young Investigator Program (YIP) and Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP) awards. He serves as an Associate Editor for npj Biosensing and IEEE Photonics Technology Letters.