Dr. Soundar Kumara is a Professor of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering at Penn State. He also holds a joint appointment with the Computer Science and Engineering department. Dr. Kumara obtained his BS degree in Mechanical Engineering from Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati, India; M/Tech in Industrial Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India; and Ph.D., from Purdue University, USA. He held CSK Chair Visiting Associate Professor position at the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Tokyo, Japan and Visiting Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA. His research interests are in Multiagent systems in Logistics and Manufacturing, Sensor based process monitoring and Chaos theory based process modeling. Dr. Kumara is an active member of CIRP.