Jon Wade is a professor of practice at the Jacobs School of Engineering at the University of California at San Diego, where he is currently designing transdisciplinary education and research programs oriented around the fundamental principles of contemporary closed-loop systems engineering design. Previously, he was a research professor at the School of Systems and Enterprises at the Stevens Institute of Technology, where he also served as the chief technology officer of the Systems Engineering Research Center (SERC) UARC. His industrial experience includes positions such as executive vice president of Engineering at International Game Technology (IGT), senior director of Enterprise Server Development at Sun Microsystems, and director of Advanced System Development at Thinking Machines Corporation. Wade received S.B., S.M., E.E., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.