At CCES, our team strives to uncover fundamental principles of science and engineering to develop new approaches to understand complex, highly integrated systems. Our research team is a highly collaborative community of scholars and experts from a wide array of disciplines and domains. Our mentorship-based model is designed to invigorate fundamental research approaches with fresh perspectives on contemporary challenges of sustainability in our highly integrated and interdependent world.In the spirit of cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural collaboration, one of the hallmarks of our research approach is to embrace intellectual risk and tackle issues that appear, at least in part, to be non-quantifiable, vague, overly complex, or even unsolvable. We work creatively to solve intractable engineering systems problems by integrating computational and social sciences approaches through applying leading-edge methods in AI, Big Data Analytics, Modeling & Simulation, and Visualization.