Dr. Aldo Dagnino is an Industrial Engineer and received his M. A. Sc. and Ph. D degrees in the Department of Systems Design Engineering at the University of Waterloo in Canada. He has collaborated with various universities such as North Carolina State University and the University of Calgary where he held Adjunct Faculty appointments to conduct joint research, co-supervise graduate students, and create industrial internship programs to bridge academia with industry needs. Dr. Dagnino has 30 years’ experience developing advanced software solutions for industrial applications. The main focus of his work has been to bridge the technical fields of Computer Science, Software Engineering, and Industrial Systems Engineering for the development of new production systems that will enhance environmentally sustainable industrial processes and create new job opportunities. Dr. Dagnino has also utilized the fields of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data Mining, Operations Research, Robotics, Software Engineering, Industrial Engineering, and Manufacturing Engineering in the development of new software products and services for electronics, telecommunications, electro-mechanics, oil and gas, power generation, manufacturing, and power transmission and distribution. Dr. Dagnino led the Advanced Industrial Analytics Group at ABB US Corporate Research and is currently leading the advanced analytics activities within the ABB Global Information Systems organization.