Dr. Fogel is Chief Executive Officer of Natural Selection, Inc, a company in San Diego applying machine learning broadly to industry, medicine, and defense.. For the past 25 years has led the development of AI approaches in a variety of bioinformatics and genomics efforts,resulting in improved diagnostics and understanding of systems biology. He has also led analytics projects for industrial AI applications to increase production efficiencies, and has applied AI to wide ranging projects from transportation and energy to national security. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, Fellow of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association, and Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He served as the Editor-in-Chief of BioSystems for 10 years, and has served as Associate Editor for 10 other journals including the IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, currently serving on the Steering Committee for the IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Developmental Systems. He has authored over 160 peer-reviewed publications, 2 edited books, and 11 patents and was named as one of the Top 100 AI Leaders in Drug Discovery and Advanced Healthcare in 2019 by Deep Knowledge Analytics. Dr. Fogel was an elected member of the IEEE CIS Administrative Committee from 2004-2009, 2014-2018, 2020-2022), served as IEEE CIS Vice President of Conferences (2010-2013, 2019), founded the IEEE CIS Bioinformatics and Bioengineering Technical Committee and its associated IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. He received the IEEE CIS Meritorious Service Award in 2016. Dr. Fogel also serves as Adjunct Faculty at San Diego State University, serving on the board of the Computational Science Research Center as well as teaching a popular introductory course in aerospace engineering.  He received his B.A. in biology with a minor in earth science from UC Santa Cruz and Ph.D. in biology from UCLA.