Service and Awards

Service

Associate Editor(2021 –present). SIMULATION: Transactions of the Society forModeling and Simulation.

Co-Chair. 2021 & 2022 Annual Modeling and Simulation Conference, Annual Simulation Symposium (ANSS).

Chair. 2020 Spring Multi-Simulation Conference, Annual Simulation Symposium (ANSS).

Invited Speaker. “Modeling & Simulation for Forced Migration Research.” National Academies of Science Committee on Population’s Workshop on Forced Migration Research: From Theory to Practice in Promoting Migrant Well-Being. Washington, D.C. May 21-22, 2019. Proceedings available at: https://www.nap.edu/read/25584/chapter/1

Program Chair. 2019 Spring Multi-Simulation Conference, Annual Simulation Symposium (ANSS).

Lecture. “Migration & Mobility.” Foreign Policy Association Great Decisions Program. Kilmarnock, Virginia. March 22, 2019.

Lecture. “Migration & Mobility.” Foreign Policy Association Great Decisions Program of Hampton Roads. Norfolk, Virginia. February 23, 2019.

Lecture. “Migration & Mobility.” Foreign Policy Association Great Decisions Program. Deltaville, Virginia. February 15, 2019.

Head of Projects Team. Emerging Scholars and Practitioners on Migration Issues (ESPMI) Network. August 2016 – August 2018.

General Chair. 2018 Spring Multi-Simulation Conference, Annual Simulation Symposium (ANSS).

Conference Co-Chair. 2017 Swarmfest Conference.

Program Chair. 2017 Spring Multi-Simulation Conference, Annual Simulation Symposium (ANSS).

Lecture. “Migration.” Foreign Policy Association Great Decisions Program. Deltaville, Virginia. March 11, 2016.

Lecture. “From camps to durable solutions: Refugee resettlement in developed countries.” ODU Model United Nations Faculty Forum. Norfolk, Virginia. February 13, 2016.

Lecture. “Migration.” Foreign Policy Association Great Decisions Program of Hampton Roads. Virginia Beach, Virginia. February 6, 2016.

Presentation. “Refugees, Forced Migration, and Resettlement in Hampton Roads.” Thalia Lions Club. Virginia Beach, Virginia. December 3, 2014.


Research Grants

Principal Investigator, OSD Minerva Research Initiative, “What’s Missing? Innovating Interdisciplinary Methods for Hard-to-Reach Environments,” July 2022 –July 2025. $1.7M. (ODU Co-PIs: Jose J. Padilla (ODU VMASC), Michele Weigle (ODU Computer Science), Michael L. Nelson (ODU Computer Science), Jennifer N. Fish (ODU Women’s Studies); Partner Institution PIs: KatharinePalacio (UniNorte), Michaela Hynie (York University), Hanne Haaland (UiA), Hege Wallevik (UiA)). Independent Researchers: Zacheus Abang (South Africa); Cyrillus Swinne (Colombia).

Co-Principal Investigator, Old Dominion University Data Science Seed Funding, “Data Science for Social Good: Mining and Visualizing Worldwide News to Monitor Xenophobic Violence Towards Migrants and Refugees,”July 2022 –June 2023. $38,000. (PI: Michele Weigle, ODU Computer Science).

Senior Personnel/Mentor, National Science Foundation, “REU Site: Research Experiences for Undergraduates in Disinformation Detection and Analytics,” March 2022 –February 2025. $324,000. (PI: Sampath Jayarathna(ODU Computer Science); co-PI: Jian Wu (ODU Computer Science); Senior Personnel/Mentors: Michele Weigle (ODU CS), Michael L. Nelson (ODU CS), Faryaneh Poursardar(ODU CS),Vikas Ganjigunte Ashok(ODU CS),Anne Perrotti (ODU Education)).

Co-Principal Investigator, US Department of Education, “Graduate Research Opportunities and Workforce Readiness in Modeling and Simulation (GROW M&S),”January 2022 –December 2024.$1.15M (PI: Jessica Johnson(ODU VMASC); co-PIs: Jose J. Padilla, Sachin Shetty, Masud Rana,Yiannis Papelis, Krzysztof Rechowicz, Rafael Diaz, Katherine Smith, Michael Nelson, Deri Draper-Amason, Heather Richter).

Principal Investigator, Hampton Roads Biomedical Research Consortium, “By the community, for the community: Participatory Research to Understand Disparities inVaccine Uptake,” October 2021 –July 2022. $100,904. (Co-PI: Alexandra Leader (EVMS), Tancy Vandecar-Burdin (ODU)).

Co-Principal Investigator, OSD Minerva Research Initiative, “Computational Framework for Assessing Absorptive Capacity,” July 2019 – June 2022. $1.5M. (PI: Jose J. Padilla; Co-PIs: Joshua Behr and Michael Allen (ODU), Apostolos Spanos (UiA), Ioannis Spilanis (U. of Aegean), and Fred Bidandi (U. of Western Cape))

Principal Investigator, Old Dominion University Medical Modeling & Simulation Seed Funding, “Health Dynamics in Protracted Refugee Situations,” August 2017 – July 2018. $70,000. (Co-PI: Jose J. Padilla).

Principal Investigator, Program for Undergraduate Research and Scholarship, “Social Justice & Transportation Equity,” January – December 2016. $8,086.10

Co-Principal Investigator, Virginia Department of Emergency Management, “Workshop on Long-term Degradation of Interdependent Critical Infrastructures in Hampton Roads,” January – March 2016. $20,100. (Co-PIs: R. Michael Robinson, Barry Ezell, and Andrew J. Collins)


Awards & Recognition

1st Place – Safety & Security, D4R Data for Refugees Challenge, Team lead, with M.Y. Sener, R. Gore, C. Boshuijzen-va Burken, E. Bozdag, & C. de Kock, January 2019

John R. Broderick Diversity Champion Award, The Office of Institutional Equity & Diversity, Old Dominion University, 2018

ODU Faculty Exchange, Selected Participant, University of Kitakyushu, Japan, August 2018

Graduate Workshop in Computational Social Sciences, Selected Participant, Santa Fe Institute, 2015

Shining Star Recognition, Student-nominated teaching recognition award, Division of Student Engagement and Enrollment Services, Old Dominion University, 2015

Pay it Forward: A Workshop of Women Helping Women in International Relations, Selected Participant, International Studies Association Annual Conference, 2014

Anita Clair Fellman Endowed Service Learning Scholarship, Friends of Women’s Studies, Old Dominion University, 2012-2013

1st Place Paper Award for Excellence in M&S Research, 2012 Student Capstone Conference, Medical Modeling Track, 2012

Nancy Topping Bazin Graduate Scholarship, Friends of Women’s Studies, Old Dominion University, 2011-2012

Modeling and Simulation Graduate Assistantship, College of Arts and Letters, Old Dominion University, 2011-2012

Old Dominion University College of Arts and Letters Dean’s Education Abroad Award, 2011