Dr. Q. Peter He is an associate professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Auburn University. He obtained his BS degree from Tsinghua University (China) in 1996 and PhD degree from the University of Texas-Austin in 2005, all in chemical engineering. His current research interests are in the area of systems engineering enhanced data analytics with applications in manufacturing, renewable energy, food-energy-water nexus, and broad area of disease detection/diagnosis and operation of healthcare systems. For various applications, the goal is to develop knowledge-guided data-enabled hybrid machine learning or statistical models for information/knowledge extraction, property prediction, process modeling, monitoring and control.