Christopher Stubbs is the Director of the Fairleigh Dickinson University Center for Artificial Intelligence and an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering Technology at Fairleigh Dickinson University. He obtained his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from New York University.  His research focuses on developing new computational technologies to investigate the hierarchical biomechanical structure of plants to solve prevalent but under-researched problems in plant science and agronomy.