Professor Liberatore is Chair and Professor of Chemical Engineering at Trine University. His research includes engineering new materials by understanding their changes under flow, rheology measurements in parallel with other techniques (high pressure, light scattering, high shear, controlled humidity) on a range of polymer, colloid, and surfactant systems, active and self-directed learning tools, and reverse engineering of YouTube videos. He received his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Chicago and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Chemical Engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Full award citation: "For his impactful and innovative research related to learning analytics for interactive, web-based textbooks and mixed method studies of problem-solving using student-written, video-inspired problems."