Dr. Salary is an Associate Professor of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering in the College of Engineering and Computer Sciences at Marshall University. His current areas of research include Advanced Manufacturing, Computational Modeling, Machine Learning (ML), and Artificial Intelligence (AI). Currently, Dr. Salary is serving as the director of the Lab for Advanced Manufacturing Engineering & Systems (LAMES) at Marshall University. Dr. Salary is a recipient of the College of Engineering Research Award as well as the Pickens-Queen Teaching Award for excellence in both research and education at Marshall University.