Leifur Leifsson is an Associate Professor with the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. He received his undergraduate and master’s degrees in mechanical engineering from the University of Iceland, and a PhD degree in aerospace engineering from Virginia Tech. Prior to coming to Purdue, he worked at Airbus UK as a wing integration engineer, and he was an Associate Professor at the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa. At Purdue, his current research focuses on advancing fundamental computational methods for multidisciplinary design optimization, surrogate-based modeling and optimization, reduced-order modeling, multifidelity modeling, sampling, and uncertainty quantification. Application areas include aerodynamic shape optimization, aerothermodynamics modeling, aircraft design, and microwave systems design and optimization. Leifsson currently serves as an Associate Editor of the AIAA Journal. He is a member of the AIAA Multidisciplinary Design Optimization Technical Committee.