School of Supply Chain, Logistics and Maritime Operations
Old Dominion University
Norfolk, Virginia, United States of America 

School of Cybersecurity
Old Dominion University
Norfolk, Virginia, United States of America 

Rafael Diaz, a professor in the Department of Engineering Management and Systems Engineering, the School of Cybersecurity, and the School of Supply Chain, Logistics and Maritime Operations (SSCLMO), received a National Science Foundation Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Initiatives Game Changer Academies Fellowship. He serves as the Graduate Program Director for the School of Cybersecurity, is the director of the Supply Chain Cybersecurity Research Cluster and is the Interim Graduate Program Director for the SSCLMO. Previously, he was the director of the Advanced Analytics Lab and co-director of the Digital Maritime and Shipbuilding Lab at Virginia Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation Center. Dr. Diaz, who received his Ph.D. and Master’s degrees from Old Dominion University, is a Commonwealth Cyber Initiative Fellow and an ODU Artificial Intelligence Teaching Fellow. His research has appeared in more than 100 publications on topics including digital supply chains and operations management, Artificial Intelligence, prescriptive analytics, homeland security, and cybersecurity.