He is a professor in the Department of Systems and Computer Engineering at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada.

He is known for his research in modeling and simulation, in particular his work related to the DEVS formalism.

Wainer graduated in 1993 as a Licenciado in Computer Science from the University of Buenos Aires.

[1] In July 2000, he joined the Department of Systems and Computer Engineering at Carleton University (Ottawa, Canada).

[6][7] He is editor in chief of Simulation[8] and a Distinguished Speacker of ACM (Association for Computing Machinery).