I am an Assistant Professor in the IMSE department and affiliate of the Resource and Energy Engineering program at UTA where I founded the Sustainable and Efficient Allocation of Resources (SEAR) Lab with the main research foci of: Energy Systems and Technology Buildings, Transportation, and Infrastructure Critical (Mineral) Supply Chains I believe that advances in energy and information technology provide an enormous opportunity to substantially increase material abundance and by extension quality of life, while simultaneously improving sustainability and resilience. SEAR supports this vision by combining analytics and rapid prototyping to research, develop (or improve), and deploy technological systems and accompanying decision-making tools, so organizations can allocate their limited resources to maximize desired outcomes sustainably, efficiently, and resiliently. I spent several years working in the oil and gas, engineering design and manufacturing, and HVAC industries. During this time, I traveled around the world and witnessed how the lack of basic infrastructure such as clean water, electricity, AC, internet, and banking, negatively affects the quality of life of the majority of the world’s population. These experiences motivated me to pursue research that can enhance quality of life by improving access to sustainable resources and economic opportunities, particularly where a lack of physical infrastructure presents a major obstacle that evolved into SEAR lab