Maciej J. Zawodniok is an Associate Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Missouri University of Science and Technology, where he has been a faculty member since 2008. He also serves as Assistant Director of the NSF Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (I/UCRC) on Intelligent Maintenance Systems, fostering industry-academia research collaborations and advancing intelligent system technologies. His research interests include wireless networks and communications, RFID and RF sensing systems, cyber-physical and embedded systems, and data-driven Digital Twin technologies, with applications in manufacturing, mining, and human-robot interaction. Dr. Zawodniok is a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and previously served as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement (TIM).