Carolyn Conner Seepersad is a Woodruff Professor in the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where she leads the Digital Design and Manufacturing research group.  Carolyn joined Georgia Tech after 18 years as a faculty member in the Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, where she founded the Center for Additive Manufacturing and Design Innovation. She received her PhD and MS from the Georgia Institute of Technology, a BA from Oxford University (as a Rhodes Scholar), and a BS from West Virginia University.  Her research interests include design for additive manufacturing, simulation-based design of materials and structures, and process innovation in additive manufacturing. She is an elected member of the Advisory Board of the Design Society and has served as a member and chair of the ASME Design Engineering Division (DED) Executive Committee, an Associate Editor of JMD, and a member of the editorial boards of Additive Manufacturing Letters and 3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing.  Dr. Seepersad was the recipient of the ASME Design Automation Award (2022) and best conference paper awards from ASEE, ASME Design Theory and Methodology, ASME Design Automation, and ASME Design Education Conferences.