RICK MCKENZIE was born in Kingston, Jamaica. Dr. McKenzie has a B.S. in engineering, M.S. in computer engineering, and a Ph.D. in computer engineering all from the University of Central Florida in Orlando, Florida U.S.A. Currently, he is the Department Chair in the Computational Modeling and Simulation Engineering (CMSE) Dept. and a joint faculty member in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia U.S.A. In addition, Dr. McKenzie is the co-director of the Medical Imaging, Diagnosis, and Analysis (MIDA) Laboratory, Adjunct Associate Professor of Eastern Virginia Medical School (EVMS) in the School of Health Professions, and Graduate Faculty Scholar at University of Central Florida (UCF) in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Before coming to Old Dominion University, he spent 6 years in the simulation industry at Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) as a senior scientist. Dr. McKenzie’s research has been in medical modeling and simulation, human behavior representation, and simulation architectures often focusing on aspects of scientific visualization and virtual reality. His email address is rdmckenz@odu.edu.