Dr. Timothy Young is a Professor in the Department of Forestry, Wildlife and Fisheries, Center for Renewable Carbon at the University of Tennessee.  He has a Ph.D. in Statistics and Natural Resources and an M.S. in Statistics (Minor–Operations Research) from the University of Tennessee. He also holds M.S. (Forest Economics) and B.S. (Forestry) degrees from the University of Wisconsin. His current areas of research include data science, AI, real-time data fusion, real-time ensemble predictive process modeling, Bayesian additive regression trees (BART), and real-time statistical process control (SPC). He is Head of the Industrial Engineering Unit and Director of the Center for Data Science at the Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER). He is an affiliate member of the WoodK Plus research unit at the BOKU university Vienna, Austria. He is past President of the Forest Products Society (FPS), serving a four-year term which ended in June 2015. He is former Chairman of the Process Control and Quality Control Technical Interest Group of FPS (2004–2010), former President of the Mid-South Section of FPS (2007), and former Chair of the International FPS meeting (2007). He is also an active member of the American Society of Quality (ASQ), American Statistical Association (ASA), American Wood Protection Association (AWPA), Composite Panel Association (CPA), Engineered Wood Technical Association (EWTA–APA), and the Forest Products Society (FPS).