Wole Soboyejo was educated in England, where he received a BSc in mechanical engineering from King’s College London in 1985, and a PhD in materials science and metallurgy from Cambridge University in 1988.  He worked as a Research Scientist at the McDonnell Douglas Research Labs (1988-1992) and Edison Welding Institute (1992) before joining the faculty at The Ohio State University (1992-1999).  Soboyejo spent a year (1997-1998) as a Visiting Martin Luther King Associate Professor at MIT before moving to Princeton University as a Professor (1999-2016).  He served as President and Provost of the African University of Science and Technology (AUST) between 2012 and 2014.  Soboyejo moved to WPI in 2016 as the Bernard M. Gordon Dean of Engineering (2016-2018) and was later appointed as Senior Vice President and Provost (2018-2022). He was appointed recently as the Interim President of WPI (2022-). He is the author of 4 text books and more than 400 peer-reviewed journal papers.  Soboyejo is also a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, the Nigerian Academy of Engineering, and the Nigerian Academy of Science.