Dr. Zhenghui Sha is an Assistant Professor in the Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin (UT). Dr. Sha received a Ph.D. from Purdue University and was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the McCormick School of Engineering at Northwestern University. Dr. Sha’s research focuses on system science and design science, as well as the intersection between these two areas. In particular, his research encompasses design theory, data-driven generative design, human-machine interaction, swarm manufacturing, and complex sociotechnical systems. He is a faculty member of the Center for Additive Manufacturing and Design Innovation (CAMDI) and an Affiliated Faculty of the Oden Institute of Computational Engineering and Sciences at UT Austin. Dr. Sha is the recipient of the 2022 Young Engineering Award (YEA) from the Computers & Information in Engineering (CIE) Division of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and received the Best Dissertation of The Year Award in 2017 from the ASME CIE Division. He received the ASME Robert E. Fulton Best Paper Award twice in 2013 and 2017. Dr. Sha receives the Honorable Mention by the Mechanical Engineering Graduate Students Board for the Best Faculty Advisor Award in 2023 at UT Austin. He receives the 2021 Outstanding Faculty Members of the Year Award and the 2020 Outstanding Teaching Award from the University of Arkansas. He was the Reviewer with the Distinction Award for the Journal of Mechanical Design and received the Technical Committee Leadership Award from the ASME in 2020. Dr. Sha is the inaugural Chair of the ASME Hackathon and has been a member of the ASME Hackathon Committee since 2019. He served as the Chair of the ASME SEIKM Technical Committee from 2018 to 2019 and has been the Program Chair of the ASME AL/ML Technical Committee since 2023.