Eliot Winer is currently director of the Virtual Reality Applications Center (VRAC), a professor in the Departments of Mechanical Engineering (main), Electrical and Computer Engineering (courtesy), the Department of Aerospace Engineering (courtesy), and a faculty member of the Human Computer Interaction Graduate Program at Iowa State University. He received a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from The Ohio State University in 1992 and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the University at Buffalo in 1994 and 1999. He teaches courses on mechanical systems design, optimization, and professional ethics. Dr. Winer has over 20 years of experience working in modeling, simulation, and training (MS&T). His research interests include large-scale collaborative design methods; analysis machine learning), visualization, and interaction with large data sets (i.e., “Big Data”); multidisciplinary design analysis and optimization; computer-aided design and graphics; and extended reality (XR). Dr. Winer is a proven leader in this field having served in leadership positions in academia, major conferences, and multiple startup companies.