Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
William Oberkampf is an adjunct faculty member in the Kevin T. Crofton Department of Aerospace and Ocean Engineering at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia. He is also an engineering consultant working with various government laboratories and business organizations in both the U.S. and Europe. He specializes in issues concerning computational modeling and simulation, particularly verification, model validation and experimental activities, model parameter calibration, sensitivity analyses, and uncertainty quantification. He has taught over 50 short courses on these topics both in the U.S., Europe, and China. He has published over 180 journal articles, book chapters, and conference papers. He is the co-author of “Verification and Validation in Scientific Computing,” Cambridge University Press, 2010. He served in staff and management positions at Sandia National Laboratories over a period of 29 years. Early in his career, he was a