Surya Kalidindi is currently the Regents Professor and Rae S. and Frank H. Neely Chair Professor in the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering with joint appointments in the School of Computational Science and Engineering and the School of Materials Science and Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology, Georgia, USA. He got his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1992. Following his PhD, he became a faculty member in the Materials Engineering Department at Drexel University. His research interests have included crystal plasticity, microstructure design, and materials informatics. Surya has been elected a Fellow of ASM International, TMS, and ASME. He has also been recognized with the Alexander von Humboldt Research Award, the Vannever Bush Faculty Fellow, and the Khan International Award.