William Musinski is an assistant professor in the Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science Departments at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM). He received his PhD degree in mechanical engineering from Georgia Tech. Prior to joining UWM, he was a materials research engineer at the Air Force Research Laboratory. His research focuses on the development of advanced constitutive models for deformation, residual stress formation, fatigue crack initiation, and small crack growth at the microstructural scale.