Khosro Shahbazi received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Toronto. He held postdoctoral positions in the Division of Applied Mathematics at Brown University (Providence, Rhode Island) and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Wyoming. He is a tenured associate professor of Mechanical Engineering at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology and a fellow of the Japan Society for Science Promotion.His research has appeared in the Journal of Computational Physics, SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, Computer and Fluids, Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations, and International Journal of Heat Transfer. He has has chaired or co-chairs sessions at APS Fluid Dynamics Meetings, the AIAA conference, and served on two NSF review panels on Data-enabled Computational Science and Engineering and Fluid Dynamics.