 Thanks for the introduction Patty and it's a real pleasure to be right here and invited to speak. Thank you for the opportunity. So I'll talk and I'm the first speaker so I guess I kind of have to get things started and so the topic will be getting started where Suresh really started his career and I'll give a few remarks about him as a teacher. And so for a kind of full disclosure for those who don't know me, Noam is a colleague before that as a graduate advisor but I first met him actually as an undergraduate student sitting in his class at Purdue. So we'll go back right 15 years and I'll kind of give my first impressions of what I thought of him then. And so there's no doubt right when I was asked for remarks I knew exactly the story I would tell and every single student sitting in the classroom would say the same thing. So we've got 40 students who are in the room right sitting there and it's a second week of class so you're kind of comfortable because the first week you just review some things. The first homework came in pretty simple maybe you did well on it so you think you've got the sense of security. But then everyone's like perking up right because this teacher starts pointing at people and calling them out by name and asking them a question. So when he calls on Sarah you think okay he must know her from a student organization or something right. Then he calls on Scott and then like Bruce your friend Bruce is sitting next to you he calls Bruce you think he doesn't right he doesn't know Bruce what's going on here and then he calls Justin and you're kind of wondering okay what's going on. So we're all getting to this realization that in the first week of class he just had learned all of our names how right I mean just casual interactions before after class passing out the homework. It was just there and you might think this would be terrifying. It was more effective than coffee in terms of keeping students alert I'm sure of that. But if you know right Sarah she's got this mastery of asking a question so no one ever had a sense that he was trying to right pick on someone or point something out but right asking in this kind of endearing more comforting way and starting a conversation with them or helping them to some understanding or maybe just curious right what they think and is kind of assessing himself so it's hard to right give a sense of the atmosphere in this room but it's this one-on-one mentoring in a class of 40 which is kind of hard to explain. And so mentoring is this topic that gets a lot of attention in higher education right and it's highlighted that you need good mentors in this case. But I guess my story and what I can speak is that right just this very simple act of learning someone's name has a profound effect right and so it wasn't a memorization trick either right it was followed by like a deeper right longer more empathetic relationship with many of those students in the classroom and I don't have to say because I think everyone after me will say the same thing it's this connecting with people is his magic right and that's what made him a great teacher and it's going to be probably underscored in anyone who talks about it. And so I don't I remember the course material I must have learned it right that's what I'm doing today but much more vividly I just I remember right being called out by name and now that I'm at Purdue right teaching myself right I have a better sense of like broader vision and what he thought about for teaching so I had the opportunity to teach this course recently that he pioneered some 20 years ago at Purdue it's a really fun course right we invite industry professionals into the classroom right they're giving right practical case studies and other things directly to the students it's broadcast to students not just in the classroom but equally as many right throughout the state throughout the country who are working continuing right professionals and I'm kind of in awe because I've now got these students who travel back to Purdue they're there for a football game or registering for classes and are coming in and thanking me for doing this I've got a department head thanking me for offering this modern course that right is hitting on all of our strategic objectives in the university and is aligned with right that land grant mission of right extending education and so I just have to right pass along my thanks right in that regard and marvel of kind of the vision he had for that many years ago without any of the infrastructure at the university to be able to do that so I guess you know maybe I'll just wrap up and say jealous that he's still not teaching you kind of want to have people have that experience that you got to have but he's got all of these right past students who are many here today and whatever they do they're all great teachers right so that's that's continuing and you know as we go forward maybe I'll just say president era Mella was first professor there Mella I know every situation he encounters he's going to approach it as a teacher and so be ready when he calls on your name.