Associate Professor, Ph.D.
Andreas Tolk

Ph.D. Computer Science, University of Federal Armed Forces, 1995                                             

Dr. Tolk is an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering Management and Systems Engineering at the Old Dominion University.  He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science (1995) and has a M.S. in Computer Science (1988) from the University of the Federal Armed Forces, Germany. His emphasis was Applied Systems Science and Military Operations Research.

Dr. Tolk was Senior Research Scientist at the Virginia Modeling Analysis & Simulation Center (VMASC) from 2002 to 2006. He was Vice President for Land Weapon Systems at the German company I.A.B.G., the main contractor for the German Ministry of Defense for Operations Research and Simulation applications for analyses, training, and experimentation, from 1998 to
2002. He was project manager for decision support systems and integration of M&S into Command and Control systems from 1995 to 1998.

Dr. Tolk supported the NATO M&S Master Plan as a national expert. He is co-author of NATO's Code of Best Practice for Command and Control Assessment and has been the Technical Evaluator for the annual M&S Conference of NATO since 2003. He published over 80 papers in the domain of simulation interoperability and received more than 25 outstanding paper
awards. His research interests include data engineering for system of systems, architectural constraints for system of systems, and military applications of M&S for analyses, training, and operational support.