Serghei Drozdov is an Application Engineer from Georgetown University who works at NIST as a guest researcher. He received B.S. in Computer Engineering (2012) from University of Maryland and has interned at NIST's Semiconductor Metrology group (2011-2012). Serghei is currently part of the Smart Connected Manufacturing Systems group and is focused on developing a discrete-event simulator for manufacturing processes: Simantha ( https://data.nist.gov/od/id/mds2-2530 ).