Moshe Kress

Distinguished Professor of Operations Research
Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 1981

Prof Moshe Kress

Dr. Moshe Kress is a Distinguished Professor of Operations Research at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS), where he teaches and conducts research in combat modeling and related areas. His current research interests are operations research modeling in military and defense problems such as missiles defense, cybersecurity and contested logistics. His research has been sponsored by DARPA, ONR, USSOCOM, JIEDDO, USMC and TRADOC. He is the past Military and Homeland Security Editor of the OR flagship journal Operations Research. He published four books (one of which has been translated to Hebrew and Korean and another to Chinese) and over 90 papers in refereed journals, including top journals like Science and PNAS. Dr. Kress has been twice awarded the Koopman Prize for military operations research (2005 and 2009) and the 2009 MOR Journal Award. Prior to joining NPS, Dr. Kress was a senior analyst at the Center for Military Analyses in Israel. He had been a Visiting Professor (by courtesy) at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, between 2007 and 2019.

Operations Research Department
Naval Postgraduate School
Monterey, California 93943
Office: Glasgow 244
(831) 656-2927 DSN: 756-2927
Fax: (831) 656-2595
Email: mkress@nps.edu

Teaching and Research Interests

  • Military and Homeland Security Operations Research
  • Combat Modeling
  • Military Logistics Systems
  • Bio-Defense Modeling
  • Decision Analysis

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