Dr. Randall Wald received his B.S. in Biology from the California Institute of Technology and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Florida Atlantic University. Although he began his scientific career in the field of synthetic biology, more recently he has studied the application of data mining and machine learning towards a wide range of application domains, including bioinformatics, social network profile mining, machine condition monitoring (including remote ocean turbines and battery backup systems), and software engineering.