Timothy S. Fisher (PhD Mechanical Engineering, Cornell 1998) joined UCLA in 2017 as Professor of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering (MAE) after 15 years at Purdue University, and several previous years at Vanderbilt. In 2018 he was received the Schauerman Endowed Chair in Engineering and the ASME Heat Transfer Memorial Award. He has mentored more than 40 doctoral advisees to candidacy and completion, and in 2012 he received the McDonald Mentoring Award from ASME. He has authored more than 275 papers in peer-reviewed journals and made a similar number of contributions to conference proceedings and presentations.