Society for Modeling and Simulation International (SCS) Names New Fellows

SAN DIEGO - June 2, 2016 - PRLog -- Dr. Tuncer Ören, Ph.D. (University of Ottawa), Dr. Gabriel Wainer, Ph.D. (Carleton University), and Dr. Andreas Tolk, Ph.D. (MITRE), have recently been named Fellows of the Society for Modeling and Simulation International, (SCS), the world's premier professional society devoted to modeling and  simulation (M&S).

A Fellow is recognized by his/her unusual distinction in the profession, as well as dedication and contributions to the field. The accomplishments honored must have contributed importance to the advancement or application of modeling and simulation, which have brought significant value to the society. Some of the requirements to become a Fellow include achieving Senior Membership status and being nominated by a current SCS member.

About the Fellows

Dr. Gabriel Wainer received his M.Sc. at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1993 and received his Ph.D. with highest honors at the Université d'Aix-Marseille III, France in 1998. He currently holds a Full Professor position at Carleton University in the Department of Systems and Computer Engineering and is the Associate Chair for Graduate Studies and head of the Advanced Real-Time Simulation lab at Carleton University's Centre for advanced Simulation and Visualization (V-Sim). Throughout his career, Wainer has written three books,   over 320 research articles, and edited four other books. He has lent his talents in organizing many conferences as well as being one of the founders of the Symposium on Theory of Modeling and Simulation, SIMTools, and SimAUD. Professor Wainer has also contributed to SCS in many ways, including, but not limited to,   being a member of the Board of Directors, Special Issues Editor of SIMULATION, member of the Editorial Board  of IEEE Computing in Science and Engineering, Wireless Networks (Elsevier), Journal of Defense Modeling and Simulation (SCS). Previously, Dr. Wainer served as Vice-President of Conferences and Vice-President of Publications for SCS.

"Gabriel Wainer's contribution to the advancement of DEVS has provided ground-breaking work that has influenced many fields and his service as Vice President of conferences for SCS has brought the delivery of SCS conferences to the best position it has seen in recent history," says John Sokolowski, Senior Member and President Elect of SCS.

Dr. Andreas Tolk received his Ph.D. and Master's Degree in Computer Science from the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Munich, Germany. He currently holds the position of Computer Science Principal in the Simulation Engineering Department of MITRE Corporation, Hampton, VA. He is also an adjunct Full Professor for Engineering Management and Systems Engineering and the Modeling, Simulation, and Visualization Engineering Department at Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA. He has edited six books and has published more than 250 journal articles, book chapters, and conference papers. He is a member of the Winter Simulation Conference Advisory Board and is a member of the Board of Directors for SCS as well as for the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group Simulation (SIGSIM). He is also a senior member of SCS, ACM, and IEEE.

"Andreas Tolk has twice served as an officer of SCS, 1 year as secretary and four years as VP of Membership and has served as a guest editor for three special issues of Simulation: Transactions of the Society for Modeling and Simulation- the flagship publication of SCS," says Drew Hamilton, Mississippi State University, and Fellow  of SCS.

Dr. Tuncer Ören has contributed to the field of simulation since 1965. He is professor emeritus of computer science at the school of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Ottawa, Canada. His research interests include: advanced modeling and simulation methodologies, agent-directed simulation, agents for cognitive and emotive simulations, body of knowledge and taxonomies, multilingual terminology of simulation, and reliability, quality assurance, failure avoidance, and ethics. He has over 500 publications including 38 books and proceedings and has contributed to almost 500 conferences and seminars held in 38 countries. He has been keynote, invited speaker or honorary chair in over 240 of them. He has also been the

Founding Chair of the Executive Committee of the Chairmen of the Canadian Computer Science Departments. A book in his honor was edited by Prof. Levent Yilmaz (2015): Concepts and Methodologies for Modeling and Simulation: A Tribute to Tuncer Ören. Springer.

"Professor Oren's numerous publications…have been instrumental in forging M&S into a discipline," says Bernard Zeigler, University of Arizona, former president and Fellow of  SCS.

The Society for Modeling and Simulation International, (SCS) is privileged to bestow the status of Fellow to Tuncer Ören, Gabriel Wainer, and Andreas Tolk.

For more information regarding the Fellow status, please contact the office at (858) 277-3888, by e-mailing scs@scs.org, (mailto:scs@scs.org) or at http://scs.org/