Dr. Robert M. Wallace (BS ’92, MS ’95) is a proud graduate of Brigham Young University, whose most important roles are husband to his wife Sheri and father to their five children. He earned two degrees from BYU in Civil Engineering and then earned his PhD in Civil Engineering from Purdue University in 2002.
Dr. Wallace is a Senior Scientific Technical Manager, serving as the Technical Director for the Information Technology Laboratory (ITL) within the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC). In this capacity, he provides technical oversight for the 400-person ITL, which annually conducts more than $550 million in cutting-edge research for the U.S. Army. Additionally, he directs a multi-laboratory research area that applies data science, decision science, and computational science to solve the Department of Defense's (DoD) most challenging computational problems. Dr. Wallace has 32 years of experience leading computational science and engineering projects, with particular emphasis on multi-physics simulations, water resource engineering, graphical user interfaces, geographic information systems, mobile computing, and data analytics.