Hardik Gohel currently serves as an ML/AI Faculty Member at the Hewlett Packard Enterprise Data Science Institute at the University of Houston and as Program Director of Data Science and Assistant Professor of Computer Information Sciences at the University of Houston-Victoria. Research interests include cyber test automation, smart bandages for wound monitoring, big data security intelligence, and predictive maintenance, among others. Additional roles include Director of the Applied AI Lab, Senior Member of IEEE, and former Advisory Council Member at Florida International University. Hardik Gohel's educational background includes a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Hertfordshire and machine learning studies at Stanford University.