Uday Vaidya is a University of Tennessee-Oak Ridge National Laboratory (UT-ORNL) Governor's Chair in Advanced Composites Manufacturing. Vaidya serves as the Chief Technology Officer for IACMI. He serves as the Director of the Fibers and Composites Manufacturing Center at UT, and leads several composites activities at the Manufacturing Demonstration Facility at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Vaidya serves as the Editor-in-Chief for Elsevier Composites B:Engineering journal. He has published a book on 'Composites for Automotive, Mass Transit and Truck' and 'Advanced Composites - Innovation & Experiential Learning'