Elizabeth F. Ryder received the A.B. degree in statistics from Princeton University in 1980, the M.S. degree in biostatistics from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in 1985, and the Ph.D. degree in genetics from Harvard University in 1993. She was with the Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), Worcester, MA, USA, in 1996, and was a Post-Doctoral Fellowship with the Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA. He is currently an Associate Professor of Biology and Biotechnology and an Associate Director of the Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Program with WPI, Worcester, MA, USA. Her work is currently supported by the National Science Foundation. His research interests include the simulation of biological systems using agent-based computational modeling, with both research and educational goals.