Dr. Wei Chen is the Wilson-Cook Professor in Engineering Design and Chair of Department of Mechanical Engineering at Northwestern University. She received her Ph.D. from the Georgia Institute of Technology, M.S. from University of Houston, and B.S. from Shanghai Jiao Tong University (China), all in mechanical engineering.  Dr. Chen is an elected member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and fellow of ASME. She currently serves as the President of the International Society of Structural and Multidisciplinary Design (ISSMO).  In the past, she served as a member then Chair of the ASME Design Engineering Division (DED) Executive Committee and was an elected Advisory Board member of the Design Society. Before becoming the editor-in-chief of JMD, Dr. Chen was the Associate Editor of the JMD, Design Science, and the SIAM/ASA Journal on Uncertainty Quantification (JUQ).  She also served as the Review Editor of the Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization (SMO) and the Department Editor for the IIE Transactions.  Dr. Chen was the recipient of the joint ASME and Pi Tau Sigma Charles Russ Richards Memorial Award (2021), ASME Robert E. Abbott Award ( 2019) for life time service, ASME Design Automation Award (2015), Intelligent Optimal Design Prize (2005), ASME Pi Tau Sigma Gold Medal achievement award (1998), and the NSF Faculty Career Award (1996).  Her research team has received five ASME Design Automation Conference Best Paper Award (2019, 2016, 2014, 2012, and 1998) and the JMD Editors’ Choice Award (2014).