Dr. Rick Mckenzie  Associate Professor Ph.D., University of Central Florida. Distributed simulation, knowledge representation, model-based diagnostic reasoning, and software engineering

Frederic (Rick) D. McKenzie is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Old Dominion University where he currently serves as Principal Investigator (PI) and Co-PI on projects involving simulation architectures, behavior representation in simulations, and medical modeling and simulation. Dr. McKenzie received his Ph.D. in computer engineering from the University of Central Florida in 1994. Prior to joining ODU, he held a senior scientist position at Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), serving as Principal Investigator for several distributed simulation projects. At SAIC he was a Team Lead on a large distributed simulation system. Before joining SAIC, Dr. McKenzie worked as a student researcher on research projects involving both NASA Kennedy Space Center and NASA Marshall Space Flight Center. He has several years of research and development experience in the software and artificial intelligence fields, including object-oriented design and knowledge-based systems. Both his M.S. and Ph.D. work have been in artificial intelligence - focusing on knowledge representation and model-based diagnostic reasoning.

Contact Information:

Office : 231C Kaufman Hall
Phone : (757) 683-5590
E-mail:  rdmckenz@odu.edu