Dr. JamesE. Hubbard, Jr. is presently the TEES Eminent Professor and permanent Fellow of the Hagler Institute for Advanced Systems at Texas A&M University (TAMU). He has been a Full Professor serving academia since 2004 and has held prior leadership positions in Industry and Government as well. He was also appointed Glenn L. Martin Institute Professor Emeritus at the University of Maryland, College Park, MD. He is a Fellow and lifetime member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) as well as a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and Fellow of the Society of Photonics and Industrial Engineers (SPIE). His research efforts are focused on Adaptive Structures, System Identification, and Modeling and Control of Distributed Parameters Systems. He has authored or co-authored more than 150 scientific articles, and published four books. Dr. Hubbard was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2016.