| VMASC Research Faculty |
Areas of Expertise |
| Dr. Catherine Banks Special Assistant to the Executive Director/Research Associate Professor |
Revolution/Insurgency; Political Economy/State Volatility; Climate Change/Population Dynamics, Medical Simulation Tool Development |
| Dr. Josh Behr Research Associate Professor Social Sciences |
Health Care Delivery & Emergency Departments; Complex Social Phenomena; Election Systems and Political Behavior; Community Vulnerability and Emergency Preparedness; Environmental Health and Built Environments |
| Dr. Andrew Collins Research Assistant Professor Analysis |
Operational Research; Reinforcement Learning; Game Theory; MultiAgent Simulation |
| Dr. Saikou Diallo Research Assistant Professor M&S Interoperability Lead |
Web Services; M&S Interoperability; Conflict Resolution in Heterogeneous Data Models; ModelBased Data Engineering |
| Dr. Rafael Diaz Research Assistant Professor System Sciences Lead |
Public Health and Healthcare Management Modeling; Ambulatory Systems; Public Health and Transit; Vulnerable Population Dynamics; Complex Systems; Community Health and Emergency Preparedness; Operations Research and Management Sciences; Operations Management; Service-based Production Systems; Supply chains; Simulation-based Optimizations |
| Dr. Barry Ezell Research Associate Professor Military & Homeland Security Lead |
Probabilistic Risk Assessment; Group Facilitation; Systems Analysis; Risk Analysis; Decision Analysis |
| Dr. Yiannis Papelis Research Professor Virtual Environments Lead |
Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Semi-Autonomous Agents, Virtual Environments and Immersive Games |
| Dr. Andrea Parodi Research Associate Professor Medical & Health Care Lead |
Women's Health; Critical Care Training; Operative Health Care Systems & Infrastructure; Primary Care Optimization; Trauma Care; Shipboard Surgical Systems; Emergency Logistics Team Coordination |
| Dr. Mike Robinson Research Assistant Professor Transportation Research Lead |
Transportation Modeling; Evacuation Modeling; Decision Making |
| Dr. John Sokolowski VMASC Executive Director Social Sciences Lead |
Discrete Event Simulation; Continuous and Real Time Simulation; Human Behavior Modeling with Multiagent Systems; Large-Scale Simulation Project Management, Homeland Security M&S, Transportation Modeling; Decision Modeling, Engineering |
