Lealon L. Martin received his B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from Tuskegee University and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from UCLA in the area of Process Systems Engineering. Prior to joining Prairie View, Dr. Martin had joint faculty appointments in the Iserman Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering and the Department of Decision Sciences and Engineering Systems at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He also served on the faculty at the University of Texas at Austin in the McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering. Currently, he is an Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering and Interim Associate Dean of the Roy G. Perry College of Engineering at Prairie View A&M University. Dr. Martin is also a licensed attorney and a member of the State Bar of Texas with practice areas in intellectual property law, immigration law, and cybersecurity/data privacy. Dr. Martin’s current research includes: engineering methanotrophy in microbiological consortial environments, topological metabolic analysis of reconstructed metabolic networks in microgreens, and among other topics.