Dr. Richard Fujimoto is a professor in the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California (Berkeley) in 1980 and 1983 (Computer Science and Electrical Engineering) and B.S. degrees from the University of Illinois (Urbana) in 1977 and 1978 (Computer Science and Computer Engineering). He is currently a leading researcher in the parallel and distributed simulation field. He has published over 60 technical papers in this field and has co-authored a book on parallel processing. He is the designer and a principal developer of the Georgia Tech Time Warp (GTW) parallel/distributed simulation executive. He received the 1994 Outstanding Simulation Publication Award from The Institute of Management Sciences (TIMS) College on Simulation for his paper "Parallel Discrete Event Simulation (Communications of the ACM} (33), 10:30-53, 1990) and has received outstanding teaching and research awards from the College of Computing at Georgia Tech.

Among his current activities, Professor Fujimoto is leading the design of the time management component of the DoD High Level Architecture (HLA) effort sponsored by the Defense Modeling and Simulation Office (DMSO). HLA is a highly visible distributed simulation activity that is envisioned to encompass nearly all modeling and simulation efforts within DoD.

Fujimoto is currently an area editor for ACM Transactions on Modeling and Simulation, and was co-guest-editor for a special issue on Parallel and Distributed Simulation Performance for that journal. He has also served as program and general chairman for the Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Simulation, (PADS), the premier conference of the parallel discrete event simulation community, and has chaired the steering committee for that conference since 1992.