Dr. Policarpio Soberanis

Policarpio grew up in Belize City, Belize where he focused his education on Mathematics and Economics. Upon emigrating to the United States, he attended Loyola Marymount University earning a BS in Mathematics. He attended graduate school at the University of Iowa where he earned a MS in Mathematics followed by a PhD in Operations Research.

Policarpio’s career has spanned multiple companies in the defense industry including, Raytheon, BAE Systems, and Northrop Grumman. He had the opportunity to work overseas embedded with the armed services on projects that helped to protect the men and women that were on the front line. Prior to Ansys Policarpio was a Senior Engineering Manager at Northrop Grumman where he oversaw the development digital transformation capabilities to help NG achieve its goal of becoming fully digitally transformed by 2025. Most recently, these techniques were used on the digital pathfinder project that saw the X437 achieve first flight on August 29, 2024.

Currently, Policarpio is a Senior BD Executive with Ansys Government Initiative: Part of Synopsys and a SME on MBSE, MBT&E and how we leverage modeling and simulation capabilities to realize the digital thread and achieve the goals of digital engineering as set forth by the DoD.