DANIEL A. EISENBERG
Research Assistant
Professor, Operations Research
Deputy
Director, NPS Center for Infrastructure Defense
Ph.D., Arizona State University, 2018
Daniel Eisenberg is a
Research Assistant Professor of
Operations
Research at the Naval Postgraduate
School (NPS) and Deputy Director of the
NPS Center
for Infrastructure Defense (CID).
Dan’s research focuses on the design, operation,
and adaptation of resilient infrastructure systems with emphasis on
applying resilience engineering theory to improve system design and
emergency operations. He uses tools from operations research,
engineering, and public administration to link built and social
systems together and identify fragilities in existing practices. He
currently leads projects on the design and management of resilient
island and military installation infrastructure systems. Dan leads
research projects in the following areas:
-
Recovery and
mitigation of lifeline infrastructure systems in the
U.S. Virgin Islands that were impacted by hurricanes
Irma and Maria (project
page)
-
Modeling
compound threats to interdependent infrastructure
systems on US military installations (project
page)
Dan's work as an educator
helps advance critical infrastructure knowledge worldwide through
in-residence classes at NPS and the delivery of NATO short courses
across Europe and the Middle East. You can learn more about the
classes he teaches
here and
materials he develops for infrastructure education
here.
Dan also leads research and
education efforts beyond NPS in several professional organizations.
He is chair of working group 3 (WG3) infrastructure analysis,
protection, and recovery for the Military Operations Research
Society (MORS),
chair of the critical infrastructure protection and recovery (CIPR)
working group for the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE),
and editor for the American Society of Civil Engineers Journal of
Infrastructure Systems (ASCE
JIS).
Dan received his Ph.D. and M.S.E. in Civil, Environmental, and
Sustainable Engineering from Arizona State University (ASU) and
a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from University of California,
Davis. Prior to joining NPS, he was a student contractor with
the US Army Engineer Research and Development Center’s Risk and
Decision Science Team. He has significant international research
experience and received several prestigious fellowships,
including a National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research
Fellowship, a NSF Integrative Graduate Education and Research
Traineeship in Solar Energy Utilization (IGERT-SUN), a NSF East
Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes (EAPSI) Fellowship – South
Korea, an NSF Graduate Research Opportunities Worldwide (GROW) –
South Korea, and a Fulbright Fellowship to Brazil.
Research Interests
- Vulnerability analysis and protection of
interdependent infrastructure systems, including electric power,
water, transportation, and telecommunications systems.
- Stochastic and simulation-optimization methods
for infrastructure systems
- Resilience engineering and emergency
operations
- Surprise attacks and surprise management
Teaching Interests
- Design, operation, and protection of critical
infrastructure systems
- Risk, reliability, and worst-case failure
assessment of engineered systems
- Disaster management and decision-making
during emergencies
Fellowships & Awards
- NPS Teaching Fellow (2019)
- National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate
Research Fellow (2015-2018)
- NSF Graduate Research Opportunities Worldwide
(South Korea) (2015)
- NSF Integrative Graduate Education and
Research Traineeship (2013-2015)
- NSF East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes
(South Korea) (2014)
- Fulbright Scholarship (Brazil) (2012)
