Dr. Sajal Das, an IEEE Fellow, is a Curators' Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and Daniel St. Clair Endowed Chair in Computer Science at Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla. Prior to joining S&T in September 2013 as CS Chair, he was a University Distinguished Scholar Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and DIrector of the Center for Research in Wireless Mobility and Networking at the University of Texas at Arlington. During 2008–2011, he was a Program Director at the NSF in Computer Networks and Systems Division of the CISE Directorate. In 2012, he was selected as the E.T.S. Walton Fellow by the Science Foundation of Ireland. Dr. Das has visited numerous universities worldwide for collaborative research and is frequently invited as a keynote speaker at international conferences. His research interests include wireless sensor networks, mobile and pervasive computing, cyber-physical systems, IoT, smart environments (smart city, smart healthcare, smart grid, smart agriculture), machine learning and data science, distributed and edge computing, security, biological and social networks, and applied graph theory and game theory. Dr. Das has directed numerous funded projects totaling over $25M and published more than 650 research articles in high-quality journals and refereed conference proceedings. His h-index is 104 with more than 45,900 citations. He holds 5 US patents, co-authored 59 book chapters and four books titled Smart Environments: Technology, Protocols, and Applications (2005), Handbook on Securing Cyber-Physical Critical Infrastructure: Foundations and Challenges (2012), Mobile Agents in Distributed Computing and Networking (2012), and Principles of Cyber-Physical Systems: An Interdisciplinary Approach (2020). Dr. Das is a Distinguished Alumnus of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, and a Fellow of the IEEE, National Academy of Inventors (NAI) and Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA).

Dr. Ming Leu is the Curators' Distinguished Professor and Keith and Pat Bailey Distinguished Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Missouri University of Science and Technology. He founded Missouri S&T’s Center for Aerospace Manufacturing Technologies in 2004 and since then has been serving as its director until May 2016. Prior to joining Missouri S&T, he was a Program Director at the National Science Foundation (1996–1999), the State Chair Professor in Manufacturing Productivity at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (1987–1996), and a faculty member at Cornell University. Professor Leu obtained his Ph.D. degree in 1981 from the University of California at Berkeley, his M.S. degree in 1977 from the Pennsylvania State University, and his B.S. degree in 1972 from the National Taiwan University, all in Mechanical Engineering. Dr. Leu’s research interests include additive manufacturing, virtual prototyping, CAD/CAM, robotics, machine dynamics and control, and cyber-physical systems. He has published over 410 papers in refereed publications in professional journals and conference proceedings. Also, he has written one e-book and 10 book chapters and has been granted 4 U.S. patents.

Dr. Leu has received many professional awards, including the University of Missouri President’s Leadership Award (2017), ASME Blackall Machine Tool and Gage Award (2014), ISFA Hideo Hanafusa Outstanding Investigator Award (2008), MCASTA Outstanding Scholar Award (2006), ASME Distinguished Service Award (2004), Missouri S&T AMAE Faculty Excellence Award (2001 & 2004), NJIT Harlan J. Perlis Research Award (1993), NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award (1985), SAE Ralph R. Teetor Education Award (1985), and FPRS Wood Paper Award (1981), and was on the NJIT team to receive the CASA/SME University Lead Award (1994). He was elected to CIRP Fellow in 2008 and to ASME Fellow in 1993 and is a member of the Sigma Xi, Tau Beta Pi, and Phi Kappa Phi honor societies.

Dr. William G. (Bill) Fahrenholtz is a Curators’ Distinguished Professor of Ceramic Engineering in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. He was elected a Fellow of the American Ceramic Society in 2007 and Academician of the World Academy of Ceramics in 2017.  Bill teaches graduate-level courses on technical communication and thermodynamics.  His current research focuses on the processing, characterization, and properties of advanced structural ceramics for use in environments with extreme thermal loads, mechanical forces, and/or chemical reactivities.  He has published over 225 papers in peer-reviewed journals on his research.

Professor Khayat is the Vernon and Maralee Jones Professor of Civil Engineering and Vice-Chancellor for Research and Innovation at Missouri S&T, Rolla, MO. He served as Director of the Center for Transportation Infrastructure and Safety, a National University Transportation Center (UTC), and the Tier-1 UTC, Research on Concrete Applications for Sustainable Transportation. Currently, he serves as the Associate Director of the Center for Durable and Resilient Transportation Infrastructure Tier-1 UTC. He was Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at the Université de Sherbrooke in Quebec, Canada. During his 21 years there, he served as Director of the Integrated Research Laboratory on Materials Valorization and Innovative and Durable Structures.

Dr. Khayat’s conducted pioneering research rheology of cement-based materials, high-performance concrete with adapted rheology, self-consolidating concrete, and underwater concrete. He chaired/co-chaired several international conferences, including the 2020 Gordon Research Conference (Ventura Beach, CA), SCC2016 (Washington, DC), SCC2010 (Montreal), and other conferences in China, France, Poland, and the UAE.

Dr. Khayat has authored over 550 publications, 11 books and book chapters, and served as editor/co-editor of 19 books and conference proceedings. Based on research citations, quality, and impact, he was recognized in 2018-23 as a Top 2% Scientist by Stanford University rankings of global scientists and engineers. Professor Khayat received his undergraduate and graduate degrees in Civil Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley.

Dr. Seung-Jong (Jay) Park is the Kummer Endowed Professor and the Chair of the Computer Science Department of the College of Engineering and Computing at the Missouri University of Science & Technology. He has worked in cyberinfrastructure development for large-scale scientific and engineering applications since 2004 after he received his Ph.D. in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He has performed interdisciplinary research projects including (1) big data and deep learning research, developing software frameworks for large-scale science applications; and (2) cyberinfrastructure development using cloud computing, high-performance computing, and high-speed networks. Those projects have been supported by federal and state funding programs including NSF, NASA, NIH, ONR, and AFRL. He received IBM faculty research awards between 2015–2017. Dr. Park was Dr. Fred H. Fenn Memorial Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Louisiana State University before joining Missouri S&T. He also served as an associate director for the Center for Computation and Technology at LSU between 2016–2018. Between 2021–2023, he served at the U.S. National Science Foundation as a program director managing research support programs such as Cyberinfrastructure for Sustained Scientific Innovation (CSSI), Principles and Practice of Scalable Systems (PPoSS), Computational and Data-Enabled Science and Engineering (CDS&E), and others.

Dr. Don Wunsch is the Mary K. Finley Missouri Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Director of the Kummer Institute Center for AI and Autonomous Systems.  He is also the director of the Applied Computational Intelligence Laboratory at Missouri S&T. Earlier employers include Texas Tech University, Boeing, Rockwell International, and International Laser Systems. His education includes an Executive MBA from Washington University in St. Louis; Ph.D. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering and Applied Mathematics from the University of Washington (Seattle); B.S. in Applied Mathematics from the University of New Mexico; and the Jesuit Core Honors Program at Seattle University. His key research contributions are in clustering and unsupervised learning; adaptive resonance and reinforcement learning architectures, hardware, and applications; neurofuzzy regression; traveling salesman problem heuristics; robotic swarms; and bioinformatics. He is an IEEE Fellow, previous INNS President, INNS Fellow and Senior Fellow (2007–2013), NSF CAREER Award winner, and recipient of the 2015 INNS Gabor Award.

Dr. Wunsch served as IJCNN General Chair and on several boards, including the St. Patrick’s School Board, IEEE Neural Networks Council, International Neural Networks Society, and the University of Missouri Bioinformatics Consortium. He chaired the Missouri S&T Information Technology and Computing Committee as well as the Student Design and Experiential Learning Center Board. He has produced 19 Ph.D. recipients in computer, electrical, systems engineering, and computer science; attracted over $10 million in sponsored research; and authored over 400 publications, including nine books. His research has been cited over 13,000 times.