Senior Staff
Dr. Eric Weisel is CEO of WernerAnderson, Inc., a veteran-owned M&S company that provides innovative modeling, simulation, and analysis products and services to partners in academia, government, and industry world-wide. WernerAnderson is committed to partnerships architected to achieve excellence in M&S and is working to be the “best M&S company on the planet”. Dr. Weisel received the Ph.D. in Modeling and Simulation from Old Dominion University in 2004, the M.S. in Operations Research from the Florida Institute of Technology in 1995, and the B.S. in Mathematics from the United States Naval Academy in 1988.
Prior to founding the company, he served as a U.S. Navy submarine officer on Los Angeles class attack submarines and various Navy and joint staffs with experience in nuclear engineering; navigation; and submarine, battle group and joint operations. He is active in local government in Virginia. Dr. Weisel serves on the Board of Advisors for the Virginia Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation Center. He has recently served on the Virginia General Assembly’s Joint Commission on Technology and Science Modeling & Simulation Advisory Committee and as Chair of the Gloucester County Planning Commission. He is an Adjunct Professor at Old Dominion University teaching courses in Operations Research and Modeling and Simulation. His research interests include theoretical foundations of simulation, simulation standards, and human behavior modeling
LISA JEAN BAIR (formerly Lisa Jean Moya) is Chief Scientist of WernerAnderson and leads its modeling and simulation (M&S) research and development effort. She is co-chair of the M&S Congressional Caucus Standing Committee in support of M&S Professional Development and Education. She is also on the National Training and Simulation Association (NTSA) sponsored Certified Modeling and Simulation Professional (CMSP) Board of Directors. She has led model development for analytical and financial applications as well as M&S planning, use, and validation.
Ms Bair’s areas of expertise include validation, Agent Based Simulation (ABS), Multiple Objective Decision Analysis (MODA), Multi-Attribute Utility Theory (MAUT), and the development and application of analysis. She has experience in analyses of alternatives; requirements evaluation; M&S planning use, and validation for the department of defense. Ms Bair is a PhD candidate in the Modeling and Simulation program at Old Dominion University and received an M.S. in Operations Research from The College of William and Mary and a B.S. in Applied Mathematics from Old Dominion University. Her research interests include agent based simulation, simulation theory and formalisms, human behavior modeling, and validation.