CV
My CV is listed below. You can also find a downloadable pdf version here.
Education
- Ph.D in Computer Science, University of Virginia, 2012
- M.S. in Computer Science, University of Virginia, 2007
- B.S. in Computer Science, University of Richmond, 2003
Work experience
- Spring 2022: Research Associate Professor
Old Dominion University | Office of Enterprise Research and Innovation | Center for Secure and Intelligent Critical Systems |
- Summer 2014: Research Assistant Professor
Old Dominion University | Virginia Modeling Analysis and Simulation Center |
Lead research on data science and predictive analytics in areas ranging including the obesity epidemic in the USA, improving risk communication, and religiosity and extremism in the Middle East. In total this work has yielded $698,869 ($330,130 of Credit) in externally funded research with me serving as principal investigator.
Co-led research by extracting useful information from new and diverse data sources to help inform decision making in domains from cyber security (understanding Advanced Persistent Cyber Threats), medical (studying the efficacy of game-based training for critical care personnel in the armed forces), emergency services (providing risk analysis for bioterror threats) and Department of Defense (DoD) applications (developing algorithms to effective search databases to facilitate the United States Navy establishing internal partnering agreements with ally nations). In total with work has yielded $6,050,108 ($1,113,127 of Credit) in externally funded research as co-principal investigator.
Conduct research on simulation validation and debugging. Support simulation platforms are testing grounds for these methods with partial funding from principal investigator and co-principal investigator efforts (7 journal publications, 14 peer-reviewed conference papers and 3 book chapters).
- Summer 2013: Visiting Assistant Professor
Gettysburg College | Department of Computer Science |
Taught computer science courses and supervise research for undergraduate students (3 courses covering 6 section taught, 2 undergraduate research projects supervised).
- Summer 2012: Post Doctoral Research Associate
Old Dominion University | Virginia Modeling Analysis and Simulation Center |
Researched composability, interoperability, debugging, verification and validation supporting ongoing funded projects.
Developed software to facilitate simulation debugging verification and validation used extensively on funded projects.
- Researched the epistemological nature of modeling and simulation.
Publications
Gore, Ross, Safaee, Michael M, Lynch, Christopher J, Ames, Chris P. (2025). "Spinal Specific Lexicon for Sentiment Analysis of Adult Spinal Deformity Patient Interviews Correlate with SRS22, SF36, and Odi Scores: A Pilot Study of 25 Patients." Preprints.
Munro, M. H., Gore, R. J., Lynch, C. J., Hastings, Y. D., & Reinhold, A. M. (2024). Enhancing risk and crisis communication with computational methods: A systematic literature review. Risk Analysis.
McCoy, Corren; Gore, Ross J; Nelson, Michael L; Weigel, Michele. (2024). "A Relevance Model for Threat-Centric Ranking of Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities." Cybersecurity & Information Systems Information Analysis Center Journal. Special AI/ML Edition.
Collins, Andrew J; Lynch, Christopher; Leathrum, Jim; Grigoryan, Gayane; Cotter, T Stephen; Gore, Ross; Butler, Brandon. (2024). "Practical Considerations for Transitioning a Professional Short Course Online." Adult Learning. 10451595241258232.
Reinhold, Ann Marie; Munro, Madison H; Shanahan, Elizabeth A; Gore, Ross J; Ezell, Barry C; Izurieta, Clemente I. (2023). "Embedding Software Engineering in Mixed Methods Research: Computationally Enhanced Risk Communication." International Journal of Multiple Research Approaches. 15(2).
Lynch, Christopher J; Jensen, Erik J; Zamponi, Virginia; OBrien, Kevin; Frydenlund, Erika; Gore, Ross. (2023). "A structured narrative prompt for prompting narratives from large language models: Sentiment assessment of chatgpt-generated narratives and real tweets". Future Internet. 15(12), 375.
Zamponi, Virginia; OBrien, Kevin; Jensen, Erik; Feldhaus, Brandon; Moore, Russell; Lynch, Christopher J; Gore, Ross. (2023). "Understanding and assessing demographic (in)equity resulting from extreme heat and direct sunlight exposure due to lack of tree canopies in Norfolk, VA using agent-based modeling". Ecological Modelling. 483, 110445.
Puga-Gonzalez, Ivan; Shults, F LeRon; Gore, Ross; Talmont-Kaminski, Konrad. (2022). "An Agent-Based Model of Prosocial Equilibrium: The Role of Religiously Motivated Behaviour in the Formation and Maintenance of Large-Scale Societies." Conference of the European Social Simulation Association. 61-73.
Gore, Ross; Lynch, Christopher J; Jordan, Craig A; Collins, Andrew; Robinson, R Michael; Fuller, Gabrielle; Ames, Pearson; Keerthi, Prateek; Kandukuri, Yash. (2022). "Estimating the health effects of adding bicycle and pedestrian paths at the census tract level: multiple model comparison." JMIR public health and surveillance. 8(8), e37379.
Lynch, Christopher J; Gore, Ross; Collins, Andrew J; Cotter, T Steven; Grigoryan, Gayane; Leathrum, James F. (2021). "Increased need for data analytics education in support of verification and validation." 2021 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC). 1-12.
Lynch, Christopher J; Gore, Ross. (2021). "Short-range forecasting of COVID-19 during early onset at county, health district, and state geographic levels using seven methods: comparative forecasting study." Journal of medical Internet research. 23(3), e24925.
Galen, Luke; Gore, Ross; Shults, F LeRon. (2021). "Modeling the effects of religious belief and affiliation on prosociality." Secularism and Nonreligion. 10.
Kavak, Hamdi; Padilla, Jose J; Vernon-Bido, Daniele; Diallo, Saikou Y; Gore, Ross; Shetty, Sachin. (2021). "Simulation for cybersecurity: state of the art and future directions." Journal of Cybersecurity. 7(1), tyab005.
Lynch, Christopher J; Gore, Ross. (2021). "Application of one-, three-, and seven-day forecasts during early onset on the COVID-19 epidemic dataset using moving average, autoregressive, autoregressive moving average, autoregressive integrated moving average, and naïve forecasting methods." Data in Brief. 35, 106759.
Shults, F LeRon; Gore, Ross. (2020). "Modeling radicalization and violent extremism." Advances in Social Simulation: Looking in the Mirror. 405-410.
Lemos, Carlos M; Gore, Ross J; Lessard-Phillips, Laurence; Shults, F LeRon. (2020). "A network agent-based model of ethnocentrism and intergroup cooperation." Quality & Quantity. 54(2), 463-489.
Leathrum, James F; Collins, Andrew J; Cotter, T Steven; Lynch, Christopher J; Gore, Ross. (2020). "Education in analytics needed for the modeling & simulation process." 2020 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC). 3236-3247.
Collins, Andrew J; Jordan, Craig A; Robinson, R Michael; Cornelius, Caitlin; Gore, Ross. (2020). "Exploring good cycling cities using multivariate statistics." Environment systems and decisions. 40, 526-543.
Boshuijzen-van Burken, Christine; Gore, Ross; Dignum, FPM; Royakkers, Lamber; Wozny, Phillip; Shults, F LeRon. (2020). "Agent-based modelling of values: The case of value sensitive design for refugee logistics." Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation. 23(4), 6.
Wildman, Wesley J; Shults, F LeRon; Diallo, Saikou Y; Gore, Ross; Lane, Justin E. (2020). "Post-supernatural cultures: There and back again." Secularism and Nonreligion. 9.
Frydenlund, Erika; Yilmaz Şener, Meltem; Gore, Ross; Boshuijzen-van Burken, Christine; Bozdag, Engin; De Kock, Christa. (2019). "Characterizing the mobile phone use patterns of refugee-hosting provinces in turkey". Guide to Mobile Data Analytics in Refugee Scenarios: The "Data for Refugees Challenge" Study. 417-431.
Lemos, Carlos Miguel; Gore, Ross Joseph; Puga-Gonzalez, Ivan; Shults, F LeRon. (2019). "Dimensionality and factorial invariance of religiosity among Christians and the religiously unaffiliated: A cross-cultural analysis based on the International Social Survey Programme". PloS one. 14(5), e0216352.
Gore, Ross; Wozny, Phillip; Dignum, Frank PM; Shults, F LeRon; Boshuijzen-van Burken, Christine; Royakkers, Lamber. (2019). "A value sensitive ABM of the refugee crisis in the Netherlands". 2019 Spring Simulation Conference (SpringSim). 1-12.
Lynch, Christopher J; Kavak, Hamdi; Gore, Ross; Vernon-Bido, Daniele. (2019). "Identifying unexpected behaviors of agent-based models through spatial plots and heat maps". Complex Adaptive Systems: Views from the Physical, Natural, and Social Sciences. 129-142.
Shults, F LeRon, Gore, Ross, Wildman, Wesley J, Lynch, Christopher J, Lane, Justin E, Toft, Monica D. (2018). "A generative model of the mutual escalation of anxiety between religious groups." Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation. 21(4).
Gore, Ross, Diallo, Saikou Y, Padilla, Jose, Ezell, Barry. (2018). "Assessing cyber-incidents using machine learning." International Journal of Information and Computer Security. 10(4), 341-360.
Shults, F LeRon, Gore, Ross, Lemos, Carlos, Wildman, Wesley J. (2018). "Why do the godless prosper? Modeling the cognitive and coalitional mechanisms that promote atheism." Psychology of Religion and Spirituality. 10(3), 218.
Padilla, Jose J, Diallo, Saikou Y, Lynch, Christopher J, Gore, Ross. (2018). "Observations on the practice and profession of modeling and simulation: A survey approach." Simulation. 94(6), 493-506.
Padilla, Jose J, Kavak, Hamdi, Lynch, Christopher J, Gore, Ross J, Diallo, Saikou Y. (2018). "Temporal and spatiotemporal investigation of tourist attraction visit sentiment on Twitter." PloS one. 13(6), e0198857.
Shults, F LeRon, Lane, Justin E, Wildman, Wesley J, Diallo, Saikou, Lynch, Christopher J, Gore, Ross. (2018). "Modelling terror management theory: computer simulations of the impact of mortality salience on religiosity." Religion, Brain & Behavior. 8(1), 77-100.
Gore, Ross, Lemos, Carlos, Shults, F LeRon, Wildman, Wesley J. (2018). "Forecasting changes in religiosity and existential security with an agent-based model." Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation. 21(1).
Cornelius, Caitlin VM; Lynch, Christopher J; Gore, Ross. (2017). "Aging out of crime: Exploring the relationship between age and crime with agent based modeling." Proceedings of the agent-directed simulation symposium. 1-12.
Gore, Ross J; Lynch, Christopher J; Kavak, Hamdi. (2017). "Applying statistical debugging for enhanced trace validation of agent-based models." Simulation. 93(4), 273-284.
Gore, Ross; Padilla, Jose; Diallo, Saikou. (2017). "Markov chain modeling of cyber threats." The Journal of Defense Modeling and Simulation. 14(3), 233-244.
Gore, Ross; Diallo, Saikou; Lynch, Christopher; Padilla, Jose. (2017). "Augmenting bottom-up metamodels with predicates." Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation. 20(1).
Kavak, Hamdi; Vernon-Bido, Daniele; Padilla, Jose J; Diallo, Saikou Y; Gore, Ross J. (2017). "The spread of wi-fi router malware revisited." Proceedings of the 20th Communications & Networking Symposium. 1-10.
Diallo, Saikou Y; Lynch, Christopher J; Padilla, Jose J; Gore, Ross. (2016). "The impact of modeling paradigms on the outcome of simulation studies: An experimental case study". 2016 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC). 1451-1462.
Padilla, Jose J; Lynch, Christopher J; Diallo, Saikou Y; Gore, Ross J; Barraco, Anthony; Kavak, Hamdi; Jenkins, Bakari. (2016). "Using simulation games for teaching and learning discrete-event simulation". 2016 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC). 3375-3384.
Gore, Ross; Diallo, Saikou; Padilla, Jose. (2016). "Classifying modeling and simulation as a scientific discipline". Scientometrics. 109, 615-628.
Vernon-Bido, Daniele; Padilla, Jose J; Diallo, Saikou Y; Kavak, Hamdi; Gore, Ross J. (2016). "Towards modeling factors that enable an attacker". SummerSim. 46.
Padilla, Jose J; Diallo, Saikou Y; Kavak, Hamdi; Sahin, Olcay; Sokolowski, John A; Gore, Ross J. (2016). "Semi-automated initialization of simulations: an application to healthcare". The Journal of Defense Modeling and Simulation. 13(2), 171-182.
Kavak, Hamdi; Padilla, Jose J; Vernon-Bido, Daniele; Gore, R; Diallo, S. (2016). "A characterization of cybersecurity simulation scenarios". SpringSim (CNS). 3.
Diallo, Saikou Y; Lynch, Christopher J; Gore, Ross; Padilla, Jose J. (2016). "Identifying key papers within a journal via network centrality measures". Scientometrics. 107, 1005-1020.
Diallo, Saikou Y; Gore, Ross; Lynch, Christopher J; Padilla, Jose J. (2016). "Formal methods, statistical debugging and exploratory analysis in support of system development: Towards a verification and validation calculator tool". International Journal of Modeling, Simulation, and Scientific Computing. 7(01), 1641001.
Gore, Ross Joseph; Diallo, Saikou; Padilla, Jose. (2015). "You are what you tweet: connecting the geographic variation in Americas obesity rate to twitter content". PloS one. 10(9), e0133505.
Gore, Ross; Reynolds Jr, Paul F; Kamensky, David; Diallo, Saikou; Padilla, Jose. (2015). "Statistical debugging for simulations". ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation (TOMACS). 25(3), 1-26.
Padilla, Jose J; Romero-Hall, Enilda; Diallo, Saikou Y; Barraco, Anthony; Kavak, Hamdi; Lynch, Christopher J; Gore, Ross J; Sheth-Chandra, Manasi. (2015). "Modeling and simulation as a service (MSaaS) for education: Learning STEM concepts through simulation use and building". SummerSim. 50:1-50:9.
Mutafungwa, Edward; Thiessard, Frantz; Diallo, Pathé; Gore, Ross; Jouhet, Vianney; Karray, Chiheb; Kheder, Nouha; Rym, Saddem; Hämäläinen, Jyri; Diallo, Gayo. (2015). "Mobile data as public health decision enabler: a case study of cardiac and neurological emergencies". Data for Development (D4D) Challenge at Net Mob 2015, Boston, USA, 7-10 April 2015.
Diallo, Saikou Y; Gore, Ross J; Padilla, Jose J; Lynch, Christopher J. (2015). "An overview of modeling and simulation using content analysis". Scientometrics. 103, 977-1002.
Gore, Ross; Diallo, Saikou; Padilla, Jose. (2014). "Conceve: Conceptual modeling and formal validation for everyone". ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation (TOMACS). 24(2), 1-17.
Diallo, Saikou Y; Padilla, Jose J; Gore, Ross; Herencia‐Zapana, Heber; Tolk, Andreas. (2014). "Toward a formalism of modeling and simulation using model theory". Complexity. 19(3), 56-63.
Gore, Ross; Diallo, Saikou. (2013). "The need for usable formal methods in verification and validation". 2013 Winter Simulations Conference (WSC), 1257-1268.
Gore, Ross; Reynolds, Paul F. (2012). "Reducing confounding bias in predicate-level statistical debugging metrics." 2012 34th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE). 463-473.
Gore, Ross; Reynolds, Paul F. (2012). "Modifying test suite composition to enable effective predicate-level statistical debugging." NASA Formal Methods: 4th International Symposium, NFM 2012, Norfolk, VA, USA, April 3-5, 2012. Proceedings 4. 70-84.
Kamensky, David; Gore, Ross; Reynolds, Paul F. (2011). "Applying enhanced fault localization technology to Monte Carlo simulations." Proceedings of the 2011 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC). 2798-2809.
Gore, Ross, Reynolds, Paul F, Kamensky, David. (2011). "Statistical debugging with elastic predicates." 2011 26th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2011). 492-495.
Gore, Ross, Reynolds Jr, Paul F. (2010). "INSIGHT: understanding unexpected behaviours in agent-based simulations." Journal of Simulation. 4(3), 170-180.
Gore, Ross, Reynolds Jr, Paul F. (2009). "Causal program slicing." 2009 ACM/IEEE/SCS 23rd Workshop on Principles of Advanced and Distributed Simulation. 19-26.
Gore, R., Snapp, C., Highley, Timothy. (2009). "AggPro: the aggregate projection system." Baseball Research Journal. 38(2), 20-25.
Gore, Ross, Reynolds, Paul F. (2008). "Applying causal inference to understand emergent behavior." 2008 Winter Simulation Conference. 712-721.
Reynolds, Paul F, Spiegel, Michael, Liu, Xinyu, Gore, Ross. (2007). "Validating evolving simulations in COERCE." 2007 International Computational Science Conference (ICCS), Beijing, China, May 27-30, 2007. 1238-1245.
Gore, Ross, Reynolds, Paul F. (2007). "An exploration-based taxonomy for emergent behavior analysis in simulations." 2007 Winter Simulation Conference. 1232-1240.
Gore, Ross, Reynolds Jr, Paul F, Tang, Lingjia, Brogan, David C. (2007). "Explanation exploration: Exploring emergent behavior." 21st International Workshop on Principles of Advanced and Distributed Simulation (PADS 07). 113-122.
Talks
January 02, 2023
Talk at VMASC Research Seminar, Suffolk, VA
January 01, 2023
Talk at VMASC Research Seminar, Suffolk, VA
January 03, 2022
Talk at DHS Modeling and Simulation Community of Interest, Washington, D.C.
January 02, 2022
Talk at VMASC Research Seminar, Suffolk, VA
January 01, 2022
Talk at George Mason University, Department of Computational and Data Sciences Fall Research Colloquium, Fairfax, VA
January 01, 2019
Talk at Data for Refugees Challenge Workshop, Istanbul, Turkey
January 02, 2018
Talk at Annual Meeting of the International Association for the Cognitive Science of Religion, Boston, MA
January 01, 2018
Talk at Humanitarian Logistics for Refugees Workshop, Amsterdam, Netherlands
September 01, 2017
Talk at Annual Meeting of the European Social Simulation Association, Dublin, Ireland
April 01, 2017
Talk at Refugees Religion and Radicalization Workshop, Kristiansand, Norway
March 20, 2017
Talk at Beyond Schelling and Axelrod Workshop, Manchester, United Kingdom
January 02, 2017
Talk at Quarterly Meeting of Hampton Roads Pedestrian and Bicycling Advocacy Committee, Surry, VA
January 01, 2017
Talk at Combined Meeting of the International Spine Study Group and European Spine Study Group, Barcelona, Spain
November 01, 2016
Talk at Modeling Religion in Norway Colloquium, Kristiansand, Norway
June 01, 2016
Talk at Annual Meeting of the International Association for the Cognitive Science of Religion, Vancouver, Canada
April 01, 2015
Talk at Data for Development (D4D) Challenge at Net Mob, Boston, MA
September 01, 2014
Talk at National Science Foundation DriveSense Workshop, Norfolk, VA
Teaching
Awards and Honors
- Sigma Xi Scientific Research Honor Society (2024)
- Data for Refugees Challenge (D4R) Safety and Security Prize Winner: Characterizing the mobile phone use patterns of refugee hosting provinces in Turkey (2019)
- Orange Data 4 Development (D4D) Practical Application Prize Winner: Mobile Data as Public-Health Decision Enabler (2015)
- Finalist: Best Paper at the Winter Simulation Conference (2011)
- Advancing Rewards for College Scientists (ARCS) Fellowship (2010)
- University of Virginia Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Engineering (2009)
- SAIC/UVA Scholars Research Fellowship (2008)
- University of Richmond: Mary Church and Joseph F. Kent Computer Science Award (2003)
- University of Richmond: Outstanding Student in Computer Science Award (2003)
- Phi Beta Kappa: University of Richmond, Academic Honors Society (2003)
University Service
- Member of ODU High Performance Computing Committee
- ODU / HRBRC research faculty search committees (three)
- ODU / HRBRC project scientist search committees (three)
- ODU HPC research scientist search committee
- VMASC/ODU project scientist search committees (three)
- Served on 3 ODU graduate student PhD dissertation committees (CMSE & CS Depts.)
- Represented Old Dominion University at the 2014 and 2017 Annual Capitol Hill Modeling & Simulation Expo – presented research from Old Dominion University to house of representative members, senators and staff aides
Membership in Professional Societies
- Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2012 - present
- Society for Modeling and Simulation International (SCS), 2012 - present
Publication Peer-Reviewer
- Journal of Defense Modeling and Simulation
- Simulation
- Simulation Modeling and Practice
- The Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation
- ACM Transactions on Modeling and Simulation
- IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
- Journal of Communications and Network
- Journal of Medical Internet Research
- Journal of Participatory Medicine
- Social Science Research
- Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory
- Heliyon
- AI & Society
- Journal of Information Security and Applications
- Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly
- Electronics
- Actuators
- Data
- PLoS One
- FinTech
- Urban Science
- Mathematics
- Sustainability
- Applied Science
Conference Organizing
- Member of Program Committee - 2021 – 2024 Annual Modeling and Simulation Conference (ANNSIM). This entails 3 consecutive years of serving on the Program Committee.
- Member of Program Committee - 2014 - 2020 SCS Spring Simulation Conference. This entails 7 consecutive years of serving on the Program Committee.
- Member of Program Committee - 2014 - 2021 SCS Winter Simulation Conference. This entails 8 consecutive years of serving on the Program Committee.
- Member of Program Committee – 2014, 2015, 2018 MODSIM World Conference.
- Tutorial Chair – 2016 SCS Spring Simulation Conference, Pasadena, CA
- Co-led VMASC/ODU team that participated in the 2022 City of Norfolk Datathon (Honorable Mention) and 2023 Hampton Roads Datathon (2nd Place Overall).
- Participated in the analysis and writeup of State of the Region: Hampton Roads 2018
- Work on understanding health effects of bicycle and pedestrian paths in Hampton Roads area with two presentations given to advocates and decision makers (2017).
- Created data analytics dashboard and annual reporting capability for Portsmouth Fire, Rescue and Emergency Services related to performance evaluation (2015).
- Created automated tool to create catalog entries of all publications from the Journal of Defense Modeling and Simulation. The created catalog entries were ingested into the Defense Modeling and Simulation Coordination Office (DMSCO) simulation library so that they could be searched and retrieved more easily by interested parties (2015).