Dr. Christopher Hoyle is currently an Arthur E. Hitsman Faculty Scholar Associate Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Oregon State University. His research interests are focused upon decision making in engineering design, with emphasis on the early design phase when uncertainty is high and the potential design space is large. His areas of expertise are uncertainty propagation methodologies, Bayesian statistics and modeling, stochastic consumer choice modeling, optimization and design automation. He received his PhD from Northwestern University in Mechanical Engineering in 2009 and his Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University in 1994. He served as an Adjunct Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Illinois Institute of Technology in 2009 and was an Intern at NASA Ames in 2006. He was previously a Design Engineer, an Engineering Manager, and a Program Manager at Motorola for 10 years before enrolling in the PhD program at Northwestern University.