Gary K. Fedder is the Faculty Director of Carnegie Mellon University’s Manufacturing Futures Institute and the Howard M. Wilkoff Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He has served in administrative roles at Carnegie Mellon as Vice Provost for Research, Director of the Institute for Complex Engineered Systems, and Associate Dean for Research in the College of Engineering. He was founding president and served as interim CEO of the Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing (ARM) Institute in 2017 and 2020. Dr. Fedder received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in EECS from MIT in 1982 and 1984, respectively, and his Ph.D. in EECS from the University of California at Berkeley in 1994. He is an IEEE Fellow for contributions to integrated microelectromechanical systems and has over 300 publications and 21 patents.