Biography

OSMAN BALCI is Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Mobile Software Engineering Lab at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech). He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Boğaziçi University (Istanbul) in 1975 and 1977, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Syracuse University (New York) in 1978 and 1981. Dr. Balci currently serves as an Area Editor of ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation, Modeling and Simulation (M&S) Category Editor of ACM Computing Reviews, and Editor-in-Chief of ACM SIGSIM M&S Knowledge Repository. He also serves on the Editorial Boards of Journal of Simulation and International Journal of Simulation and Process Modeling. He served as the Founding Editor-in-Chief of two international journals: Annals of Software Engineering, 1993-2002 and World Wide Web, 1996-2000. He served as Chair of ACM SIGSIM, 2008-2010; and Director at Large of the Society for M&S International, 2002-2006. Most of Dr. Balci's work has been funded by the U.S. Navy since 1983. From 1998 to 2004, he provided technical services for the U.S. Missile Defense Agency programs in the areas of M&S acceptability assessment and system independent verification and validation (IV&V). Recently, he has provided technical services for architecting naval surface warfare systems. His current areas of expertise center on Software Engineering (iOS – iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch, net-centric, IV&V), architecting system of systems, M&S (methodology, V&V, certification). His website address is http://manta.cs.vt.edu/balci.