J. Nathan Kutz is the Robert Bolles and Yasuko Endo Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Washington, and served as department chair until 2015. He is also Adjunct Professor of Electrical Engineering and Physics and a Senior Data-Science Fellow at the eScience Institute. His research interests are in complex systems and data analysis where machine learning can be integrated with dynamical systems and control for a diverse set of applications. He is an author of two textbooks and has received the Applied Mathematics Boeing Award of Excellence in Teaching and an NSF CAREER award.