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Virginia Folcik Nivar, Ph.D.
Research Scientist
201 Davis Heart & Lung Research Institute
473 West 12th Avenue
Columbus, OH 43210
(614) 366-1332
Dr. Virginia Nivar’s B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering from the Ohio State University coupled with her B.S. in Biology and Ph.D. in Regulatory Biology from Cleveland State University (specializing in Immunology) made her the ideal candidate for creating the Basic Immune Simulator using the Repast software library.
Her work has been presented at Swarmfest '04 and '06, the annual meetings for investigators using Agent-Based Modeling techniques to study Complex Systems, and it has been submitted for publication in a peer-reviewed journal. The code for the Basic Immune Simulator will be publicly available after the initial work has been published.
She previously worked as a Research Scientist in the Department of Surgery, Division of Transplantation at the Ohio State University Medical Center under the direction of Charles Orosz, Ph.D.
She started in the Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine Division in January 2007 to use her skills and training in computer modeling and complexity theory to improve critical care delivery at our institution.
For more information on agent based modeling, go to: http://digitalunion.osu.edu/r2/summer06/sass/
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