Dr. Lidong Wang is currently an Associate Research Professor at Mississippi State University. He was a tenured Associate Professor and the Director of the Automated Identification Technology Program at Mississippi Valley State University. He also did research projects at Ohio State University, the University of South Carolina, and Tennessee Technological University. These projects were supported by the Department of Defense (DoD), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), National Science Foundation (NSF), etc. He has published more than 100 peer-reviewed journal articles covering topics such as Big Data analytics, cybersecurity, deep learning, radio frequency identification, biometrics, additive manufacturing, etc. He was the President of the Electricity, Electronics & Computer Technology (EECT) Division of the Association of Technology, Management, and Applied Engineering (ATMAE) in the United States. He was the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Automated Identification Technology for eight years. He has served as a Program Committee Member for six IEEE conferences. He is an IEEE Senior Member.