Chukwudalu Uchenna Uba is a post-doctoral research fellow at the Mechanical Engineering Department, University of Louisiana at Lafayette (UL Lafayette), Lafayette, Louisiana, USA. He graduated from the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Anambra State, Nigeria, in 2015 with a Bachelor of Engineering degree in mechanical engineering, funded by the Jim Ovia Foundation. Next, he obtained his Master of Science degree in materials science and engineering from the African University of Science and Technology (AUST), Abuja, Nigeria, in 2019, funded by the Pan African Materials Institute and the AUST. He also obtained a Master of Engineering degree in mechanical engineering from UL Lafayette in December 2023. Next, he obtained his Doctor of Philosophy degree in systems engineering (mechanical engineering concentration) from UL Lafayette in December 2024, during which he was awarded the Doctoral Dissertation Completion Fellowship. His research interests comprise integrated computational materials engineering, developing multiscale approaches for designing and characterizing high-performance metal alloys, and experimental validation and integration of simulation methods, including the calculation of phase diagram analysis, finite element modeling, and phase-field modeling, for materials and manufacturing process optimization. He is a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the American Society for Quality, and the Minerals, Metals, and Materials Society.