S.K. (Sue) Numrich

Affiliation

Institute for Defense Analyses

Biography

S. K. Numrich (Sue), PhD, CMSP began her career at the engineering level of modeling and simulation and moved gradually into parallel and distributed simulation. She led a panel for The Technical Cooperation Program (US, UK, CA, AUS, NZ) in distributed simulation and represented the US on the NATO Studies, Analysis and Simulation (SAS) panel as the simulation expert. Sue served as the Director of Technology for the Defense Modeling and Simulation Office. Since 2005 she has been a research staff member at the Institute for Defense Analyses where she has worked with the use of military simulation, the incorporation of human activity and behavior into simulations, and the validation of a variety of simulations. She founded and was the first chair of the Tutorial Board. Sue authored four book chapters and over 50 technical papers and has had two academic appointments. A Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America, Sue was selected as the I/ITSEC 2018 Fellow.