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Dr. Douglas C. Schmidt is the inaugural Dean of William & Mary’s School of Computing, Data Sciences & Physics. He recently served as the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation, which is a President-appointed Senate-confirmed position that advises the Secretary of Defense on operational and live fire test and evaluation of Department of Defense weapon and information systems. Prior to DOT&E Dr. Schmidt served as the Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Engineering in Computer Science, the Associate Provost for Research, Co-Director of the Data Science Institute, the Associate Chair of Computer Science, and a Senior Researcher at the Institute for Software Integrated Systems, all at Vanderbilt University. He’s also been affiliated with Carnegie Mellon University’s Software Engineering Institute in various research-oriented positions for 20 years.
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