Chris Metzler is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science (and ECE by courtesy) at the University of Maryland, where he leads the UMD Intelligent Sensing Laboratory. His research develops new systems and algorithms for solving problems in computational imaging and sensing, machine learning, and wireless communications. His work has received multiple best paper awards; he recently received NSF CAREER and AFOSR Young Investigator Program awards; and he was an Intelligence Community Postdoctoral Research Fellow, an NSF Graduate Research Fellow, a DoD NDSEG Fellow, and a NASA Texas Space Grant Consortium Fellow.