Roger H. French is the Kyocera Professor of Ceramics in the Case School of Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio. He has secondary appointments in Macromolecular Science, Biomedical Engineering, and Physics. He is the faculty director of the CWRU Applied Data Science program which offers a minor university-wide. He is the director of the SDLE Research Center at CWRU, an Ohio Third Frontier, Wright Project center focused on lifetime and degradation science of long lived technologies and data science and analytics.