Jonathan Hodges is a lead research engineer for UL Research Institutes’ Fire Safety Research Institute. His research career has spanned experimental, computational, and analytical fire science, with an emphasis on artificial intelligence, fire dynamics modeling, heat transfer, and uncertainty quantification. His work has included the development and validation of advanced pyrolysis, combustion, and heat transfer submodels in the Fire Dynamics Simulator, as well as the application of machine learning and artificial intelligence to problems in structure fire modeling, wildfire spread, and risk assessment. Jonathan has led and contributed to numerous sponsored research programs involving battery energy storage system fires, railcar fires, wildland-urban interface fires, smoke control in atria, and firebrand ignition phenomena. Prior to his role at ULRI, Jonathan led a research and development team in private engineering consulting. He earned his Master of Science in mechanical engineering from Clemson University and his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Virginia Tech. Jonathan serves the broader fire protection industry through participation in several Society of Fire Protection Engineering committees and task groups. He is also a member of the SFPE Foundation Board of Governors and the editorial board for the Fire Safety Journal. He advises and serves on student thesis committees at Clemson University, the University of Maryland, and Virginia Tech.