Satya Sharma, executive director of the Center of Excellence in Wireless and Information Technology (CEWIT) at Stony Brook University, was interviewed in the latest issue of Leaders magazine, a quarterly international publication that deals with a broad range of leadership thoughts and visions of the world's most influential people. He spoke in depth about CEWIT — its mission, research areas and current projects, and its alliances among academic, business, and scientific communities. Read the interview to discover how CEWIT's faculty and students are conducting interdisciplinary research and development in wireless and information technology, fostering new enterprise development, addressing the skilled technology worker shortage, and managing technology transfer from lab to marketplace. Sharma came to Stony Brook University as executive director of CEWIT and a faculty member in the Department of Mechanical Engineering in 2003. Before joining Stony Brook, he was senior vice president at