Dr. James Nutaro is a Distinguished Research & Development Scientist and Group Lead at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the Computational Systems Engineering & Cybernetics group. Dr. Nutaro received a Doctorate in Computer Engineering in 2003 from the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona. His research interests center on modeling and simulation methods with an emphasis on systems integration and modeling systems from data. Dr. Nutaro is an associated editor for the journals SIMULATION and ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation. He is a member of the Society for Computer Simulation and a senior member of the IEEE.