Dr. David Monismith is a computer scientist in the 559th SMXS at Tinker Air Force Base. His current work includes parallelization and parameter sweeps for code to compute Radar Cross Sections using the Finite-Difference Time-Domain Method (FDTD). From 2015 to 2016, Monismith was an independent researcher in the Oklahoma City area. During this time, he worked with Drs. John Shaw and Himadri Chakraborty on an XSEDE allocation entitled, "Computational Simulations of Electronic Motions and Excitations in Nanostructured Surfaces by Ion-Surface and Adsorbate-Surface Charge-Transfer Interactions". From 2012 to 2015, Dr. Monismith was an Assistant Professor at Northwest Missouri State University where he served as XSEDE Campus Champion, Graduate Directed Projects Coordinator, and PI on two U.S. Army subcontracts. 

Dr. Monismith earned his bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Tulane University and both his master's degree in Electrical Engineering and doctorate in Computer Science from Oklahoma State University. His current research interests include parallel algorithms, parallel programming, and optimization of high performance codes.