OR Faculty - Operations Research
Roster
The OR Department has a distinguished faculty that includes members of the National Academy of Engineering and many fellows of professional societies (Military Operations Research Society, INFORMS, American Statistical Association, Institute for Mathematical Statistics, American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Royal Statistical Society).
Active
David L. Alderson
Professor, Academic Associate
Ph.D., Stanford University, 2003
Modeling and analysis of critical infrastructures, with particular emphasis on how to invest limited resources to ensure efficient and resilient performance in the face of accidents, failures, natural disasters, or deliberate attacks. Emphasis on tradeoffs between efficiency, complexity, and fragility in a wide variety of public and private cyber-physical systems.
Jeffrey Appleget
COL US Army Ret., Senior Lecturer
Ph.D., Naval Postgraduate School, 1997
Integer Programming, Wargaming, Combat Modeling, Human, Social, Culture and Behavior modeling, Irregular Warfare and Counterinsurgency
Michael Atkinson
Professor
Ph.D., Stanford University, 2009
Computational Methods, Stochastic Processes, Military and Homeland Security Operations Research
Robert Bassett
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of California at Davis, 2018
Optimization and Statistics
Gerald G. Brown
Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., University of California at Los Angeles, 1974
Member, National Academy of Engineering
Optimization and its Applications, Large-Scale Mathematical Programming
W. Matthew Carlyle
OR Department Chair and Professor
Ph.D., Stanford University, 1997
Optimization and its Applications, Infrastructure Vulnerability, Large-Scale Mathematical Programming
Louis Chen
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019
(Data-Driven) Distributionally Robust Optimization, Stochastic Programming, Convex Optimization, (Discrete) Convex Analysis, Optimal Transport
Emily Craparo
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008
Developing tools and technologies that allow autonomous and semi-autonomous systems to most effectively obtain, analyze, synthesize and utilize information.
Eric Eckstrand
Faculty Associate - Research Assistant
Daniel Eisenberg
Research Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Arizona State University, 2018
Thomas E. Halwachs
Senior Lecturer of Operations Research, Director of Financial Systems
M.S., Naval Postgraduate School, 1976
Wargaming, Simulation, Optimization
Thomas A. Hamrick
LCDR U.S. Navy, Ret., Lecturer
M.S., Naval Postgraduate School, 1997
Probability and Statistics, Statistical Modeling, Game Theory, Military Operations Research
Michelle Hancock
Faculty Associate - Research
Operations research
Jefferson Huang
Assistant Professor
PhD in Applied Mathematics (Stony Brook University, 2016)
Applied Probability, Optimization Under Uncertainty
William Kelton
Visiting Professor
Jeffrey E. Kline
CAPT US Navy Ret., Professor of Practice in Operations Research
MS, Naval Postgraduate School, 1991
Applied research in military operational and tactical environments, Joint Campaign Analysis
Robert A. Koyak
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley, 1985
Applied Statistics, Census Issues, Measurement Error Models, Tracking and Estimation for Air and Missile Defense, Test and Evaluation of Theater Air and Missile Defense Systems, Nonparametric Statistics
Moshe Kress
Professor
Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 1981
Military Operations Research, Combat Modeling, Military Logistics Systems, Bio-Defense Modeling, Decision Analysis
Kyle Lin
Professor
Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley, 2000
Stochastic Modeling, Decision Making Under Uncertainty, Queueing Theory, Game Theory
Thomas W. Lucas
Professor
Ph.D., University of California at Riverside, 1991
Robust Statistical Methodology, Defense and Security Modeling, High-dimensional Design of Experiments
Kevin Maher
CDR U.S. Navy, Ret., Lecturer
MS, Naval Postgraduate School, 1993
Probability and Statistics, Inventory
Christopher McClernon
Research Associate Professor
Mary McDonald
Research Associate
M.S. Applied Mathematics (Operations Analysis Track), NPS 1997
Design of Experiments, Modeling & Simulation, Complex Adaptive Systems, Evolutionary Algorithms and Coevolution, High-Dimensional Data Analysis
Gregory K. Mislick
LtCol USMC, Ret., Senior Lecturer
M.S., Naval Postgraduate School, 1988
Cost Estimation, Data Analysis, Regression Analysis, Learning Curves, Optimization, Probability and Statistics, Marine Corps and Aviation Issues
Karen Mislick
Senior Lecturer
Cost Estimation and Analysis
Brian Morgan
CAPT U.S. Navy, Ret., Senior Lecturer and OR Program Officer
M.S., Naval Postgraduate School, 1999
Campaign Analysis
Douglas Otte
CAPT U.S. Navy, Retired, Senior Lecturer
M.S., Naval Postgraduate School, 1989
Operational and Strategic Campaign Analysis, Probability and Statistics
Steven E. Pilnick
CAPT U.S. Navy, Ret., Senior Lecturer
Associate Chair for Distributed Programs,
Ph.D., Naval Postgraduate School, 1989
Military OR Modeling, Search and Detection, Applied Probability Modeling, Optimization Modeling
Daniel Reich
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Arizona, 2009
Anton Rowe
Faculty Associate - Research
M.S., Stanford University, 1997
Javier Salmerón-Medrano
Professor
Ph.D., Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, 1998
Optimization and its applications in network interdiction, electric power systems, military applications and humanitarian assistance; Decomposition methods; Stochastic optimization
Dashi Singham
Research Associate Professor
Ph.D. University of California at Berkeley, 2010
Simulation, Applied Probability, Statistics
Roberto Szechtman
Professor
Ph.D., Stanford University, 2001
Applied Probability, Stochastic Modeling, Simulation, Operations and Supply Chain Management
Stephen C. Upton
Faculty Associate - Research
M.S. OR/Physics, Naval Postgraduate School, 1987
Design of Experiments, Evolutionary Algorithms, Modeling and Simulation, Programming Languages, Software Architectures
Ruriko (Rudy) Yoshida
Professor
Ph.D., University of California at Davis, 2004
Geometric statistics, statistical analysis with networks and graphs, graphical models, and phylogenetics/phylogenomics
Adrian Zavala
Faculty Associate - Research