OSMAN BALCI is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at (Virginia Tech) Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (VPI&SU). He received B.S. and M.S. degrees from Bogazici University (Istanbul, Turkey) in 1975 and 1977, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Syracuse University (N.Y.) in 1978 and 1981.

Dr. Balci is the Editor-in-Chief of two international journals: Annals of Software Engineering and World Wide Web; Verification, Validation and Accreditation (VV&A) Area Editor of ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation; Simulation and Modeling Category Editor of ACM Computing Reviews; Associate Editor of INFORMS Journal on Computing; Associate Editor of Transactions on Operational Research; Member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Sciences and Engineering; Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Operations Research/Computer Science Interfaces book series of Kluwer Academic Publishers.

He has served as: Chairman (1993-94) and Vice Chairman (1992-93) of the ORSA Computer Science Technical Section; General Chairman of the 1992 ORSA CSTS conference; Proceedings Editor of the 1990 Winter Simulation Conference; Program Chairman and Proceedings Editor of the SCS conference on Simulation Methodology and Validation, 1986-87; and Vice Chairman of ACM SIGSIM, 1985-87. He is currently a member of the Defense Modeling and Simulation Office (DMSO) VV&A technical working group.

Dr. Balci received the College of Arts and Sciences Certificate of Teaching Excellence in 1993 at VPI&SU and Teaching Excellence Award in 1988, 1991, and 1992 in his department at VPI&SU. He received a plaque for Distinguished Service from the Board of Winter Simulation Conference in 1990. He has published numerous technical articles and edited/co-edited four books. Dr. Balci has been a Principal or Co-Principal Investigator on research grants and contracts sponsored by the U.S. Navy with a total funding of $1.2 million. His current research interests center on software engineering, visual simulation and modeling, and world wide web. Dr. Balci is a member of Alpha Pi Mu, Sigma Xi, Upsilon Pi Epsilon, ACM, IEEE CS, and INFORMS.