Nital Patel, Ph.D., is a Principal Engineer responsible for advanced manufacturing systems research and development at Intel, Corporation. He has spent his career contributing to digital transformation activities and projects across the manufacturing spectrum as well as in the areas of enabling agility in the enterprise supply chain leveraging data fusion, machine learning and AI. He is the lead inventor on 11 patents, has published over 50 journal and conference papers and serves on the Editorial Board of the IEEE Transactions on Semiconductor Manufacturing. In the past he has been an Adjunct Professor at the Arizona State University and has been awarded the Mahboob Khan Award from the Semiconductor Research Corporation for mentoring university research students.