Dr. Osman Balci

Professor, Department of Computer Science

Education:
Ph.D. (1981) and M.S. (1978), Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York M.S. (1977) and B.S. (1975), Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey

Experience:

• Dr Osman Balci has served as the Editor-in-Chief of two international Journals: Annals of Software Engineering, an international journal and World Wide Web.
  
• He currently serves as the Verification, Validation and Accreditation (VV&A) are editor of ACM Transactions on modelling and simulation (M&S) category editor of ACM computing reviews.
  
• He has been providing technical services for the U.S national missile defence and missile defence agency programs.
  
• Areas of expertise include software engineering, e-systems engineering; M&S; VV&A, certification, quality assurance, risk assessment, and credibility assessment of complex systems
  

Dr. Donald E. Hatfield

Associate Professor of Strategic Management, Pamplin School of Business.

Education:
Ph.D., University of California at Los Angeles

Experience:

• His research has been published in The Journal of Industrial Economics, Strategic Management Journal, The Journal of Business Ethics, The Journal of Labor Research and many more.
  
• He has presented papers internationally for the Academy of Management, the Strategic Management Society, the Institute for Operations Research & the Management Sciences (INFORMS), the Southern Economic Association, and to various universities' seminar series.
  
• He has served as a reviewer for the Strategic Management Journal, Organizational Science, Academy of Management Executive, Journal of Engineering and Technology Management, and many others
  
• Dr. Hatfield's current research is focused upon how managers can deal with the uncertainty associated with technology and the underlying factors driving geographic industrial clustering
  

Dr. Parviz Ghandforoush

Professor of Business Information Technology and Director of the MBA Program in Northern Virginia

Education:
Ph.D. from Texas Tech University, and M.B.A. and a B.S.E.E. from the University of Texas at Austin

Experience

• He is the past president of ISA. He has also served as President, Vice-President/Program Chair, Newsletter Editor, Secretary and Treasurer of TIMS College on Engineering Management (COLEM).
  
• He is the co-author of the textbook, Management Science for Decision Makers.
  
• Dr. Ghandforoush's teaching interests include mathematical programming and production/operations management.
  
• Dr. Ghandforoush is a member of the Editorial Board for Computers and Operations Research, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, and is the editor of a special issue in integer programming for Computers and Operations Research.
  

Dr. Thomas T. Sheehan

Director of "Master of Information Technology" Program, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia

Education:
Ph. D., M.S George Mason, 1993; B.S., Colorado State, 1968: Director, Master of Information Technology Program, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia

Experience
Dr. Sheehan was a career member of the Federal Senior Executive Service (SES), Retired assistant inspector general for investigations at the Department of Interior

Awards and Honors:

• President's Award for his design of the core security component on the Army's Global Command and Control System Sybase Excellence Award for the design of a joint logistics System
  
• SES Secretarial Sabbatical, which funded a year of study and research in the design, implementation, and testing of complex systems
  

Dr. Luiz Da Silva

Associate Professor, Virginia Tech

Education:
Ph.D., The University of Kansas, 1998
M.S., The University of Kansas, 1988
B.S., The University of Kansas, 1986

Experience:
Teaching Interests: Computer networks, Telecommunications, Computer engineering
Research Interests: Quality-of-service issues in integrated networks, Broadband network access (wired and wireless), Traffic management, Performance evaluation and simulation, Game Theory

Dr. Tarun K Sen

Associate Dean, Graduate and International Programs, Pamplin College of Business.

Education:
Ph.D. (1985) The University of Iowa, College of Business Administration M.B.A. (1979) Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, India (Marketing) B.Tech (1977) Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India (Mechanical)

Experience:
Professor, Department of Accounting and Information Systems, Virginia Tech (99 onwards) Associate Professor, Department of Accounting and Information Systems, Virginia Tech (91 to 99) Assistant Professor, Department of Accounting, Virginia Tech (85 to 91)

Dr. Steven D. Sheetz

Associate Professor, Pamplin College of Business.

Education:
Ph.D. University of Colorado

Experience:
Specializes in Objet oriented software engineering, Software measurement and psychology of programming.
Written Journals and books on the following topics

• Knowledge management technology for revealing cognitive diversity within a management team
  
• Identifying the difficulties for object-oriented development
  
• Illustrating the cognitive consequences of object oriented systems development
  
  

Dr. James D. Arthur

Associate Professor of Computer Science

Education:
Ph.D. & M.S., Computer Science, Purdue University, M.S., Computer Science, University of Houston, M.A. and B.S., Mathematics, University of North Carolina, Greensboro

Experience

• National Aeronautical and Space Administration. "Empirical Methods for the Study of Software Engineering." 1994-1996. $341,800
  
• Panel Chairman: Software Engineering Education and Training, National Software Council, 1994.
  
• Chairman, Virginia Tech Academy of Teaching Excellence, 1991-92.
  
• Member, IEEE Working Group on Reference Models for Verification and Validation.
  
• Publications on "Evaluating the Effectiveness of Independent Verification and Validation,",
• Establishing System Development Process Control: Technical Objectives, Operational Requirements and the Foundational Framework, "A Framework for Assessing the Adequacy and Effectiveness of Software Development Methodologies."
  
  

Dr. Lance A Matheson

Associate Professor - Director of International Programs

Education:
Ph.D. in Management Science, MBA, and BS in Chemistry from the University of Washington

Experience:

• Dr. Matheson has also been an engineer and production manager for several electronics and metal finishing companies
  
• He is a Past-President for the Southeastern Chapter of the Decision Sciences Institute and has held many board positions for the organization.
  
• He has been a consultant to the National Institute of Justice in the area of drug testing methodology.
  
• Dr. Matheson is the author of the book Statistical Quality Control in High Reliability Systems.
  
• His primary research interests are in electronic data interchange, the application of new technologies to education and the use of artificial intelligence to solve manufacturing problems.