Dr. Rossetti is a Professor of Industrial Engineering and the inaugural Director of the Data Science program and is the former director of the Center for Excellence in Logistics and Distribution (CELDi)​ at the University of Arkansas.

Dr. Rossetti has published over 100 journal and conference articles in the areas of simulation, logistics/inventory, and healthcare and has been the PI or Co-PI on funded research projects totaling over 4.9 million dollars.

An award wining professor, Rossetti was selected as a Lilly Teaching Fellow in 1997/98 and was voted Best Industrial Engineering (IE) Teacher by IE students in 2007 & 2009. He has been recognized as the Industrial Engineering Department Outstanding Teacher in 2001-02, 2007-08, and 2010-11. The College of Engineering awarded him the Imhoff Teaching Award and he was elected an IIE Fellow in 2012. In 2013, the University of Arkansas Alumni Association awarded Dr. Rossetti the Charles and Nadine Baum Faculty Teaching Award, the highest award for teaching at the university.

In 2015, Dr. Rossetti served as program chair for the Winter Simulation Conference.  He is also the author of the book, Simulation Modeling and Arena, published by John Wiley & Sons.