Dr. Rick McKenzie
Associate Professor
IEEE
Senior Member
Department of Modeling, Simulation
and Visualization Engineering
Department of Electrical and
Computer Engineering, Joint Appt.
Frederic (Rick) D. McKenzie, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Electrical and
Computer Engineering at Old Dominion University where he currently serves as
Principal Investigator (PI) and Co-PI on projects involving software
architectures for simulation, behavior representation in simulations, and
medical modeling and simulation. To date, his projects in these areas have led
to several publications relating research in modeling human-like intelligent
agents including crowds, formal descriptions of distributed simulation
architectures, objective measures of successful prostate surgery, and augmenting
standardized patients. Many of these projects also involve virtual reality and
scientific visualization. Dr. McKenzie received his Ph.D. in computer
engineering from the University of Central Florida in 1994. Prior to joining ODU,
he held a senior scientist position at Science Applications International
Corporation (SAIC), serving as Principal Investigator for several distributed
simulation projects. At SAIC he was a Team Lead on a large distributed
simulation system. Before joining SAIC, Dr. McKenzie worked as a student
researcher on research projects involving both NASA Kennedy Space Center and
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center. He has several years of research and
development experience in the software and artificial intelligence fields,
including object-oriented design and knowledge-based systems. Both his M.S. and
Ph.D. work have been in artificial intelligence - focusing on knowledge
representation and model-based diagnostic reasoning.
CURRICULUM
VITA
COURSES
ECE 405/505 Introduction
to Discrete Event Simulation
ECE 605
Engineering Systems Modeling
MSIM 710/810
Advanced Discrete Event Simulation
ECE
495/595/695 Topics in Medical Imaging and Simulation
Director of the Medical Imaging, Diagnosis, and Analysis (MIDA) Laboratory
Crowd
Modeling
Prostate Surgery Evaluation
VR
Laboratory
Surgical
Glove Defect Visualization
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Behavior
Representation:
McKenzie,
Frederic D.,
Mikel
D. Petty, Paul A. Kruszewski, Ryland C.
Gaskins, Quynh-Anh H. Nguyen,
Jennifer
Seevinck,
and Eric W. Weisel. “Crowd Modeling for Military Simulations Using Game
Technology.” SCS International Journal
of
Intelligent Games & Simulation
(IJIGS). Submitted 2004.
Loftin R. B.,
Scerbo M., McKenzie F., Catanzaro
J. “Training in Peacekeeping Operations Using Virtual
Environments.” IEEE
Computer Graphics and Applications. July/August, 2004, pp. 18-21.
Petty, Mikel D.,
Frederic D. McKenzie, Ryland C. Gaskins III, Eric W. Weisel. "Developing a
Crowd Federate for Military Simulation."
In Proceedings of the Spring 2004 Simulation Interoperability Workshop (SIW).
Arlington
VA,
April 18 -
April 23
2004,
pp. 483-493. Nominated for a SIWzie Award (Best papers).
McKenzie F.,
Petty M., Catanzaro
J. “An Experimental Application of a Trait-Based Personality Model to the
Simulation of Military Decision-Making.” Information & Security: An
International Journal: Special Issue in Modeling and Simulation. Vol. 12,
No. 1, 2003, pp. 75-92.
McKenzie F.,
Scerbo M., Catanzaro
J., Phillips M. “Nonverbal Indicators of Malicious Intent: Affective
Components for Interrogative Virtual Reality Training.” International
Journal of Human-Computer Studies (IJHCS): Special Issue on Affective Computing.
Volume 59, Issues 1-2, July 2003, Pages 237-244.
Simulation
Software Architectures:
McKenzie,
Frederic D.,
Mikel
D. Petty, and
Qingwen
Xu. “Usefulness of Software
Architecture Description Languages for Modeling and Analysis of Federates and
Federation Architectures.” Accepted to SCS Simulation
journal in 2004. In Press.
McKenzie,
Frederic D.,
Qingwen
Xu, Quyhn-Ahn H. Nguyen,
Mikel
D. Petty. "Crowd
Federate Architecture and API Design." In Proceedings of the
Fall 2004 Simulation Interoperability Workshop (SIW). Orlando
FL,
Sept. 19 –
Sept. 23
2004.
Nominated for a SIWzie Award (Best papers).
McKenzie,
Frederic D., Hector M. Garcia, Quyhn-Ahn H. Nguyen,
Jen
Seevinck,
Mikel D. Petty.
"Mogadishu
Terrain Generation and Correlation for Crowd Modeling." In Proceedings of the Spring
2004 Simulation Interoperability Workshop (SIW). Arlington
VA,
April 18 - April 23
2004,
pp. 944-950.
McKenzie, F., A.
Gonzalez, R. Morris. “An integrated model-based approach for real-time on-line
diagnosis of complex systems.” Engineering Applications of Artificial
Intelligence (EAAI) Journal, v11, pp. 279-291, 1998.
Medical
Modeling and Simulation:
McKenzie,
Frederic D., Hector M. Garcia, Reynel Castelino, Thomas Hubbard,
John
Ullian,
Gayle
Gliva. "Augmented
Standardized Patients Now Virtually a Reality." In Proceedings of the
Third IEEE and ACM International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR
2004). Arlington
VA,
Nov. 2 –
Nov. 5
2004.
Hussein, Rania, Frederic D. McKenzie,
Ravindra Joshi. “Automating Prostate Capsule
Contour Estimation for 3D Model Reconstruction Using Shape and Histological
Features.” In Proceedings of the International
Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE) International Symposium on MEDICAL
IMAGING,
February 14-19, 2004,
San Diego,
California
USA.
McKenzie, Frederic D., Jose Diaz, Paul Schellhammer,
Rania Hussein. “Towards Statistical Inferences
of Successful Prostate Surgery.” In
Proceedings of the 25th Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (IEEE EMBS 2003). Cancun,
Mexico.
September
17-21, 2003.
McKenzie,
Frederic D.,
Rania
Hussein
,
Jennifer
Seevinck
, Paul Schellhammer, Jose Diaz. “Prostate
Gland and Extra-Capsular Tissue 3D Reconstruction and Measurement.”
In Proceedings of the Third IEEE Symposium on BioInformatics and
BioEngineering (IEEE BIBE 2003).
Washington
,
DC
.
March 10-12,
2003
.