Daniel A. Eisenberg, PhD#
Assistant Professor | Operations Research Department
Director | Center for Infrastructure Defense
Naval Postgraduate School
Email: daniel.eisenberg [at] nps [dot] edu | CV | GoogleScholar | LinkedIn
My research advances theories on the vulnerability and resilience of critical infrastructure systems, including water, electric power, transportation, and telecommunications. I blend techniques from operations research, engineering, and public administration to link built and social systems together and identify fragilities in existing practices and determine tradeoffs in system improvement. My applied work centers on the design and management of resilient islands and military installations using network science and network optimization.
My most recent and exciting work are on the following topics:
Developing fundamental operations research models for a new theory of resilience that informs tradeoffs in analysis and measures conservation of vulnerability within a system.
Comparing optimization and machine learning techniques for infrastructure planning decisions under climate change.
Creating tools and games that reveal complex interactions in infrastructure systems to non-experts and help them make practical decisions for system management.
Some recent places to find out about me:
I was featured on a podcast with climate security experts across the DoD: America Adapts
My work was highlighted in an ABC documentary on disaster resilience in Hawaii: Kuleana
We partnered with the NPS Climate Security Network and Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability to hold a climate security workshop: Climate Tabletop Exercise
My students’ work was labelled “research that will save lives” and promoted by the US Navy for building climate resilience: Developing a Climate Ready Force through Infrastructure Resilience
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