Dr. Katherine L. Morse is a member of the Principal Professional Staff at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory where she researches, designs, develops, and applies technologies for improving simulation engineering, implementation, and application. She was previously a Technical Fellow and Assistant Vice President of Technology at SAIC. She received her B.S. in mathematics (1982), B.A. in Russian (1983), M.S. in computer science (1986) from the University of Arizona, and M.S. (1995) and Ph.D. (2000) in information & computer science from the University of California, Irvine. Dr. Morse has worked in the computer industry for over 40 years, more than 25 of them contributing to open international standards. She has performed research and development in the fields of modeling and simulation, narrative engagement, systems and software engineering, computer security, online instruction, voice recognition, and compilers. Dr. Morse has made significant contributions to nearly a dozen international standards, including leading the development of the Federation Engineering Agreements Template (FEAT) standard. She has served in multiple leadership positions in the Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization (SISO). Her Ph.D. dissertation is on dynamic multicast grouping for data distribution management, a field in which she is widely recognized as a foremost expert.  She is a Fellow of the IEEE and a member of Phi Beta Kappa, ACM, and Dobro Slovo. Dr. Morse was the 2007 winner of the IEEE Hans Karlsson Award.