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).

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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