Craig J. Scott was born in Monterey California, USA. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Howard University, his M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University, and his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Howard University.

He joined the Westinghouse Electric Corporation in 1983 as a VLSI process engineer and in 1983 joined the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington DC as a microwave engineer. In 1982, he became a member of the faculty at Morgan State University. He currently serves as a Professor of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Morgan. He has also served as Interim Dean of the Clarence M. Mitchell Jr. School of Engineering for three years, and as the Chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering since 2007. His research interests are in the areas of engineering education, machine learning, and visual analytics.

He is an Advanced Manufacturing Policy Fellow at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Advanced Manufacturing National Program Office (AMNPO). At AMNPO, Craig serves as the Assistant Director for Research Partnerships. In this role, he works collaboratively with Federal agency staff to plan, design, and develop formal documents for announcements and solicitations for Manufacturing USA and ensure that the alignment of Manufacturing USA formal requirements and program structure support industrial development and global market competitiveness.

He is a member of the Tau Beta Pi engineering honor society and is currently the President of the Inclusive Engineering Consortium (IEC). The IEC is a consortium of HBCU electrical engineering departments operating as a “super department.” He was the inaugural recipient of the ECEDHA Diversity Award in 2013 and has been named a NASA/ASEE Fellow and an Army Science Board consultant. He is also a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and American Society of Mechanical Engineers.