Dr. Steve D. C. Pham is a Senior Engineer in Composite Materials & Nuclear Technologies at General Atomics, CA, USA. He received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the National University of Singapore and has worked across academia, industry, and the defense sectors. He received multiple honors, including the Slayter Innovation Awards (2023, 2024, 2025), Customer First Award (2024), Pinnacle Award (2022), and S&T Presentation Awards (2021, 2023). He has led projects in multiscale modeling digital twins, thermo-mechanical finite element analysis, progressive damage and failure analysis of composites, and manufacturability-aware design for complex material systems. He has published more than 50 papers in journals and conference proceedings, and serves as a Guest Editor for the MDPI journals Sustainability and Processes, as well as a peer reviewer for Composite Structures, Composites Part B, Journal of Composite Materials, AIAA Journal, Ocean Engineering, Marine Structures, and other venues. His research interests include physics-based and data-driven modeling, workflow automation, and high-performance composite solutions for extreme environments.