Stephen John Turner is Professor of Computer Science and Head of the Computer Science Division in the School of Computer Engineering at Nanyang Technological University (Singapore). He received his MA in Mathematics and Computer Science from Cambridge University (UK) and his MSc and PhD in Computer Science from Manchester University (UK). His current research interests include: Parallel and Distributed Simulation, Grid Computing, High Performance Computing and Multi-Agent Systems.

He is Steering Committee Chair of the Principles of Advanced and Distributed Simulation (PADS) conference and General Co-Chair of the Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications (DS-RT) symposium. He is also an area editor for ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation (TOMACS). He has published extensively on distributed simulation and has received a number of best paper awards at international conferences for his research in this area.