Dr. Fazleena Badurdeen is a Professor in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Kentucky (UK) and is also the Director of Graduate Studies for the online Manufacturing Systems Engineering MS Program. She is a core member of the university’s Institute for Sustainable Manufacturing, an internationally recognized center of excellence on sustainable products, processes and systems. Dr. Badurdeen’s research interests are in sustainable and circularity-based product design, modeling and analysis of manufacturing systems and sustainable supply chains including the development of tools and visualization techniques to support decision making in these areas. Dr. Badurdeen’s research has been funded by federal agencies such as the Department of Defense, National Science Foundation, and the National Institute for Standards and Technology as well as industry. She has published over 150 peer reviewed papers and her team has received numerous accolades for their research. She is the founding Chair of the International Forum on Sustainable Manufacturing, is an Associate Editor for the Resources, Conservation, and Recycling journal, and serves on the editorial boards of a number of other journals. She is a member of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE) and the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME). Dr. Badurdeen received her PhD in Integrated (Industrial and Mechanical) Engineering and MS in Industrial Engineering both from Ohio University, USA. She also holds an MBA from the Postgraduate Institute of Management, Sri Lanka and BS in Engineering from the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka.