Ram D. Sriram is currently a Senior Science Advisor, Information Technology Laboratory, at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Prior to joining NIST, he was on the engineering faculty (1986-1994) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and was instrumental in setting up the Intelligent Engineering Systems Laboratory. Sriram has co-authored or authored more than 300 publications, including several books. Sriram was a founding co-editor of the International Journal for AI in Engineering. Ram received many awards, including five life time achievement/pioneer awards and a distinguished alumnus award from IIT Madras, India. He has also been made a fellow of prominent engineering (ASME, IET, INCOSE, SME, SMA), computer science (ACM, AIAA, IEEE), medical (AIMBE), and science (AAAS, WAS) societies. In 2023, Sriram was elected as an honorary member of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers – the highest honor IISE grants to an individual of acknowledged professional eminence who is not a member of IISE. Sriram has a B.Tech. from IIT, Madras, India, and an M.S. and a Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA.