A Senior Research Engineer and Project Manager at Vanderbilt’s Institute for Software Integrated Systems for the past thirteen years, Chris’ general professional interests lie in the practical application of novel, model-based formalisms and design methodologies to complex, real-world, human-in-the-loop, science/engineering activities. After completing an M.S. in Engineering at The University of Mississippi, Chris has pursued a career in R&D at organizations such as Cray Research Inc., UMiss Medical Center, The National Cancer Institute and Johns Hopkins University. Currently, in addition to project management duties on the DARPA AVM Program’s META Language and META Design Flow projects, Mr. vanBuskirk also serves as PI for the NSF’s CPS Virtual Organization (http://cps-vo.org/), which actively supports the formation and development of distributed research communities required by the demanding challenges of the massively multi-disciplinary cyber-physical systems domain.
