Robert J. Marks II is the Director and Senior Fellow of The Walter Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence and host of the Mind Matters podcast. He is a Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Baylor University and a Fellow of both the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) and the Optical Society of America. He is coauthor of the books Neural Smithing and Introduction to Evolutionary Informatics. Marks lives in McGregor, TX.