MANAGEMENT TEAM

Guru Prasad, Ph. D., President

Dr. Prasad is responsible for the management and technical direction at Aximetric. Dr. Prasad is an expert in simulation, network architecture, distributed systems and systems modeling. He has developed innovative modeling and advanced visualization techniques suitable for realtime distributed simulation and web architectures. Prior to co-founding Aximetric, Dr. Prasad was a research scientist at the Institute for Simulation and Training. He led several projects from conceptual level virtual prototypes to practical applications and products used in ground and flight simulators. He has published several papers in distributed simulation and physics based modeling and served as a consultant in the M&S industry. He has also taught advanced simulation courses at the University of Central Florida. Dr. Prasad has a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering (simulation systems) and M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Central Florida.


BOARD OF ADVISORS

Dr. Narasingh Deo is the Millican Chair Professor of Computer Science and the Director of the Center for Parallel Computation at University of Central Florida A Fellow of IEEE, a Fellow of the ACM, and Fellow of the ICA. Dr. Deo has authored four books in computer science and over 160 research papers. He holds a number of patents in computer hardware and is a recipient of NASA's Apollo Achievement Award. Among his other awards are: Gold Medal of Patna University; Drake Scholar at Cal Tech; Governor's Award for Outstanding Contribution to High Tech Research in Florida (1989). Dr. Deo received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from NorthWestern University.

Dr. Ronald Hofer is the associate director of the Institute for Simulation & Training. Dr. Hofer is currently leading projects in collaborative synthetic environments, abstraction frameworks, complex information visualization and simulation system life cycle cost reduction. Prior to IST, Dr. Hofer retired serving as the technical director of the US Simulation, Training and Instrumentation Command (STRICOM) overseeing several hundred million dollars of projects in the simulation industry. Dr. Hofer obtained his Ph.D. in Electrical engineering from Purdue University.

Dr.Thomas Clarke is the principal mathematician at the Institute for Simulation and Training. He is responsible for the application of advanced mathematical concepts to simulation, neural networks, quantum computation, non-linear dynamics and optical design. Dr. Clarke is responsible for several grants and projects in simulator interoperability and advanced visualization. Dr. Clarke has published several research papers and has patents and holds a Ph.D. from the University of Miami.