Govind P. Agrawal is James C. Wyant Professor of Optics at the University of Rochester. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and the Optical Society of America, and a Life Fellow of the Optical Society of India. He has been awarded the IEEE Photonics Society Quantum Electronics Award, the Riker University Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching, the Esther Hoffman Beller Medal, the Max Born Award of the Optical Society, and the Quantum Electronics Prize of the European Physical Society. He has also served as Editor-in-Chief for the OSA journal Advances in Optics and Photonics.