Margaret Loper is Chief Scientist for the Information & Communications Laboratory at the Georgia Tech Research Institute. She earned a B.S. (Electrical Engineering) from Clemson University, M.S. (Computer Engineering) from the University of Central Florida, and a Ph.D. (Computer Science) from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Dr. Loper’s technical focus is parallel and distributed simulation, and her research contributions are in the areas of temporal synchronization, simulation testing, and simulation communication protocols and she is currently involved in projects related to data intensive systems and the interoperability of live, virtual and constructive (LVC) simulations. She is an instructor and course developer for Georgia Tech’s Professional Master’s in Applied Systems Engineering, teaching the Modeling and Simulation (M&S) for Systems Engineering course. She teaches three M&S professional education courses and runs the M&S Certificate program. Dr. Loper also leads a STEM activity called America’s Teachers @ I/ITSEC. This program brings K-12 teachers from across the U.S. to the Industry/Interservice Training, Simulation & Education Conference (I/ITSEC) to expose them to M&S technology and to help them understand how to bring M&S technology into their classroom.