Jeffrey Dunne is a Chief Scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, where he directs research in Information sciences. He has degrees in both engineering and physics, and a diverse history of intellectual pursuits in energetics, consciousness and cognition, philosophy, linguistics, acoustics, information management, data fusion, virtual and augmented reality, and communications. He serves on the editorial boards of multiple journals, consults as a subject matter expert on open architecture and data strategy, and teaches classes in signal processing and the development of data analytics. Personal interests include acting and the writing of plays, books, and music.