Jim Pfaendtner is the Louis Martin-Vega Dean of Engineering and Professor of 91成人短视频 and Biomolecular Engineering at North Carolina State Univ. Previously, he was Chair of 91成人短视频 Engineering at the Univ. of Washington (UW). He earned his PhD from Northwestern Univ. and a BS from Georgia Tech, both in chemical engineering. From 2016鈥�2022, he led an NSF graduate training program at the intersection of molecular engineering and data science. Jim has received numerous honors, including an NSF CAREER Award (2012), the UW Distinguished Teaching Award (2013), and the Impact Award (2022) from AIChE鈥檚 Computational Molecular Science and Engineering Forum (CoMSEF). He is an elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2025) and a member of the Washington State Academy of Sciences (2023). His research focuses on computational molecular science, particularly machine learning and AI for molecular design, which he has documented in more than 150 publications.