Dr. C. Nataraj (Nat) is the Moritz Endowed Distinguished Professor in Engineered Systems and the Founding Director of the Villanova Center for Analytics of Dynamic Systems (http://vcads.org) at Villanova University. Nat has served as Chair of Mechanical Engineering, and the founding Director of the Center for Nonlinear Dynamics & Control. Nat has developed and taught over 23 courses and has been a university runner up for the Outstanding Teaching Award. He has published a text book and 250+ peer-reviewed papers in dynamic systems, is a Life Fellow of ASME, the Editor-in-Chief of Springer-Nature’s Journal of Vibration Engineering Technologies and serves on the editorial board of three other international journals including Nonlinear Dynamics. Nat’s current research interests are in the intersection of physics-based engineering and machine learning with applications to mechanical, electromechanical and biomedical systems. He has received research funding from ONR, DARPA, NSF and NIH. Nat is the winner of the Villanova Outstanding Research Award. His research has received media attention including two TEDx talks, and articles in Forbes and Wired Magazines. Nat is the Founding Editor for Nodycast, a new podcast on Nonlinear Dynamics.