Abner J. Salgado is a professor of mathematics at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. His main area of research is the numerical analysis of nonlinear partial differential equations, and related questions. He has authored more that 60 publications and is the co-author of the graduate-level textbook "Classical Numerical Analysis," published by Cambridge University Press. Steven Wise is a professor of mathematics at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He conducts research in the areas of partial differential equations, numerical analysis, and scientific computing, with applications in problems from thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, biophysics, and materials science. He is the author of over 120 journal articles and two books, including a graduate-level numerical analysis textbook with Abner Salgado. Calvin (Ming Hei) Wong is a Ph.D. candidate in mathematics at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. His ongoing research is focusing on Diffuse Domain Methods and machine-learning approaches in computational applied math.