Katherine Smith is a Research Assistant Professor in Digital Shipbuilding at Virginia Digital Maritime Center at Old Dominion University’s Office of Enterprise Research and Innovation and an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering. She holds a Ph.D. in Modeling and Simulation Engineering, an M.S. in Computational and Applied Mathematics, and B.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mathematics all from Old Dominion University.  She was previously a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Mathematics & Statistics.