Feras A. Batarseh is a Research Associate Professor with the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech (VT). His research spans the areas of AI for Public Policy, AI Assurance, Agricultural Economics, and Data Engineering. His work has been published at various prestigious journals and international conferences. Additionally, Dr. Batarseh published multiple chapters and books, his two recent books are: "Federal Data Science: Transforming Government and Agricultural Policy Using AI" and "Data Democracy: At the Nexus of AI, Software Development, and Knowledge Engineering", both by Elsevier’s Academic Press. Dr. Batarseh is a Commonwealth Cyber Initiative (CCI) fellow, an affiliate with the Center for Advanced Innovation in Agriculture (CAIA) at VT, and a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE); he is also a member of the Agricultural and Applied Economical Association (AAEA), and the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). He has taught AI and Data Science courses at multiple universities including George Mason University (GMU), University of Maryland - Baltimore County (UMBC), Georgetown University, and George Washington University (GWU). Dr. Batarseh obtained his Ph.D. and M.Sc. in Computer Engineering from the University of Central Florida (UCF) (2007, 2011), a Graduate Certificate in Project Leadership from Cornell University (2016), and another in Public Policy Economics from the University of Oxford (2020). Prior to joining Virginia Tech, Dr. Batarseh was a Research Assistant Professor at the College of Science at George Mason University (GMU), and the Director of Turing Research, an applied AI research group at GMU. Additionally, he was a data mining consultant at USDA’s Economic Research Society (ERS) and a Program Manager at MicroStrategy Inc., where he helped many institutions such as federal government agencies develop their data infrastructure and data mining applications. For more on his work, visit: https://ece.vt.edu/people/profile/batarseh http://www.ferasbatarseh.com/