Dr. Sambit Bhattacharya is a tenured Full Professor of Computer Science at Fayetteville State University and is Director of the Intelligent Systems Laboratory. He works on use-inspired research in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning with a broad range of techniques and applications and with multidisciplinary teams. His research has applications to cyber resilience, geospatial intelligence, computer vision with synthetic data for rare object detection and target recognition and more. He has served as a faculty fellow in research labs of the DoD and was recently a visiting scientist with the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA).