Prof. Dragan Djurdjanovic is a Professor at Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering—Cockrell School of Engineering, University of Texas at Austin. In 1999, He obtained his M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the Nanyang Technological University. Then, he received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering in 2002 from the University of Michigan. He was the director of the recently graduated NSF Industry-University Cooperative Research Center (I-UCRC) on Intelligent Maintenance Systems at the University of Texas at Austin and is Associate Director of the NSF Engineering Research Center on Nanomanufacturing Systems (NASCENT Center). He is a Fellow of the International Society for Engineering Asset Management and an Associate Member of the International Academy for Production Research (CIRP). He is the recipient of several prizes and recognitions, including the 2018 August-Wilhelm Scheer Visiting Professorship from the Technical University of Munich, the 2006 Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award from the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME), and the 2005 Teaching Incentive Award from the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the University of Michigan. His research interests include advanced quality and process control in multistage manufacturing systems, intelligent proactive maintenance techniques, and applications of advanced data analytics in biomedical engineering.