Robert Stewart has been a senior research associate at the University of
Tennessee since 1994 for the Institute for Environmental Modeling
(TIEM). He has a M.S. in mathematics from UTK and an undergraduate
degree in both mathematics and statistics and is pursuing a PhD in
Geography. His research interests include geospatial analysis, risk
assessment, decision analysis, and sample design, usually within an
environmental context. His career interests include scientific software
development where these methods are developed and distributed. He has a
number of collaborative projects with the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.