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Olaf David

Co-Director and Research Scientist

Dr. Olaf David is Co-Director of the One Water Solutions Institute.  He is also a Research Scientist with the Colorado State University – Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Department of Computer Science. Since 2000, he has led the design, development, and operation of the Object Modeling Systems Laboratory (OMSLab).  The OMS framework is used for agro-environmental modeling, and more recently the CSIP model-as-a-service architecture supports deployments for large organizations.

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Research Interests

I received my B.S. degree (Diploma) in civil engineering and computer science from the Friedrich Schiller University Jena (Germany), and my Ph.D. degree in computer science/engineering from the Technical University in Ilmenau, Germany. I started my career as research assistant at several computing centers, worked for 5 years as assistant professor at the Department for Geography at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena, Germany, and 15 years as research scientist at the Department of Civil Engineering (and Department of Computer Science) at the Colorado State University.

The Object Modeling Systems (OMS) is designed to collaboratively develop, provision, and deploy science models for analysis of natural resource concerns, assisting land management decision-making It serves as a framework for designing, building, validating, and deploying agro-environmental models. It contains four platforms:

  • Model development (model creation, calibration, simulation, and analysis console)
  • Model deployment (models and data as web services scaled to a cloud infrastructure)
  • Data provisioning (soil, climate, land management operations)
  • Knowledge base (model component library, component metadata)

With the OMS deployment platform, an agency or company information technology (IT) organization can:

  • Integrate validated science models and components into their business application systems and workflows
  • Use the OMS cloud services platform to run models to run as services scaled to heavy user load
  • Provision data to models through OMS data access services

Education

  • B.Sc. 1991, Technical University Ilmenau, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Germany – Civil Engineering
  • Ph.D. 1995, Technical University Ilmenau, Germany – Computer Science/Software Engineering

Expertise

  • Model-as-a-Service (Maas) development, validation, and deployment
  • Metamodel-as-a-Service (MMaaS) development, validation, and deployment
  • Continuous Integration and DevOps process
  • Data Center (Cloud) hosting support with container-based deployments
  • Natural resource business expertise for requirements analysis and design specifications
  • Natural resource data provisioning