Azizi Seixas, Ph.D. is the Interim Inaugural Chair of the Department of Informatics and Health Data Science, Founding Director of The Media and Innovation Lab (The MIL), Associate Director of the Center for Translational Sleep and Circadian Sciences (TSCS), and Director of Population Health Informatics within the Institute for Data Science and Computing at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. Dr. Seixas is a nationally recognized scientist and technology leader. He was named Cell Press’ Top 100 Most Inspiring Black Scientists in America, 2022 Amazon’s Education Champion Award, 2023 Miami’s Most Influential and Powerful Black Business Leader, and 2024 South Florida’s Black Educator of the Year, 2024 Tipping Point Award by T-Mobile.