Michael Todd received his B.S.E. (1992),  M.S. (1993), and Ph.D. (1996) from Duke University's Department of Mechanical  Engineering and Materials Science, where he was an NSF Graduate Research Fellow.  In 1996, he began as an A.S.E.E. post doctoral fellow, then a staff research engineer (1998), and finally Section Head (2000) at the United States Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in the Fiber Optic Smart Structures Section. In 2003, he joined the Structural Engineering Department at the University of California San Diego, where he currently serves as Professor of Structural Engineering. His research interests are in  applying nonlinear time series techniques to structural health monitoring (SHM)  applications, adapting Bayesian inference frames for optimal decision-making in SHM,  developing novel ultrasonic interrogation strategies for aerospace structural assessment,  optimizing sensor networks for various SHM-rooted performance measures, creating  real-time shape reconstruction strategies for highly flexible aerospace and naval structural  systems based on limited data sets, creating rapid assessment checks for validation of  satellite systems, designing and testing fiber optic measurement systems for many  structural applications, and modeling noise propagation in fiber optic measurement  systems. He has published 160 papers and over 300 conference proceedings in these  areas. Prof. Todd won the 1999 Alan Berman NRL Publication Award, the 2003 and  2004 NRL Patent Award, was a 2004-2005 UC San Diego Hellman Fellow, was an  invited speaker at the 2003 National Academy of Engineering Japan-America Frontiers  of Engineering Symposium, won the 2005 Structural Health Monitoring Person-of-the Year Award, was named a 2009 Benjamin F. Meaker Fellow at the University of Bristol  (UK), and won the 2016 Society of Experimental Mechanics D. J. DeMichele Award for  contributions to research and education in experimental mechanics. He serves as the  Managing Editor of Structural Health Monitoring: An International Journal.