Edward Driffor is the associate director for cyber-physical systems (CPS) at NIST. As well as being a well-respected scientist in the auto industry with expertise in self-driving cars, he is an adjunct professor of Artificial Intelligence at the Center for Molecular Medicine and Genetics at Wayne State University and the University of Grenoble Alpes. He has authored numerous books and is an expert on topics within the fields of mathematics, physics, biosciences, computing, and engineering.