Dr. Christina M. Young is a project lead and industrial engineer for the Federal Aviation Administration. She works at the William J. Hughes Technical Center, a federal laboratory facility in New Jersey, and conducts research projects to inform the Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen). She has authored numerous journal articles and conference papers, and is heavily involved in STEM outreach. Dr. Young first started working on FAA research projects as a graduate student at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. She earned the M.S. degree in Statistics (2005) and the Ph.D. degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering (2010) while serving as a Graduate Research Assistant under a Rutgers-FAA graduate fellowship grant. Her research interests include simulation, optimization, and statistical data analysis.