Steven M. Arnold is the Technical Lead for Multiscale Modeling within the Materials and Structures Division at NASA Glenn Research?Center, Ohio, USA. He was awarded NASA’s Exceptional Service Medal in 2019, the ASC/DEStech Award in Composites for 2015, NASA’s Exceptional Technology Achievement Medal in 2014, and the NASA Glenn Abe Silverstein outstanding research award in 2004. He is co-founder and current Chairman of the Material Data Management Consortium (MDMC), an ASM International Fellow and has over 30 years of research experience resulting in over 440 technical publications and 2 U.S. patents.