Dr. Wunsch is the Mary K. Finley Missouri Distinguished Professor, Missouri University of Science and Technology (Missouri S&T). He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Washington, Seattle. His research interests include clustering, adaptive resonance and reinforcement learning architectures (hardware and applications), bioinformatics. He is the author of nine books and over a dozen book chapters, including Neural Networks in Micromechanics from Springer and Clustering from Wiley IEEE Press.