Amber L. Simpson received the B.Sc. degree in computer science from Trent University, Peterborough, ON, USA, in 2000, and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, Canada, in 2002 and 2010, respectively. She joined the faculty at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA, in 2009, and is currently a Research Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering. She is a member of the Vanderbilt Initiative in Surgery and Engineering. Her research interests include the evaluation and validation methodologies for surgical navigation and the computation and visualization of measurement uncertainty in surgery.