PROFESSIONAL HISTORY

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in Statistics, University of California at Riverside, 1991

M.S. in Statistics, Michigan State University, 1985

B.S. in Operations Research and Industrial Engineering, Cornell University, 1981

WORK EXPERIENCE

Primary

Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, March 1998 to Present, Professor, Operations Research Department

• Promoted to Full Professor in 2011
• Tenured in 2005

June 2006-June 2023—Co-founder and Co-director of the Simulation Experiments and Efficient Design (SEED) Center for Data Farming (http://harvest.nps.edu), Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA

RAND, Santa Monica, California, July 1992 to March 1998, Statistician and Project Leader in the Economics and Statistics Group

Hughes Aircraft Company, Fullerton, California, June 1981 to July 1992, Systems Engineer in the Combat Systems Department of the Surface Ship Systems Division

Other employment

Fall 2011--Visiting Professor, Fakultät für Informatik, The Universität der Bundeswehr München

Fall 2002, Fall 2003, Fall 2007, Fall 2009, Spring 2011, and Summer 2013--Visiting Senior Fellow, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, National University of Singapore

University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, Fall 1994 and Spring 1996, Adjunct Assistant Professor in the department of Information and Operations Management

University of California at Riverside, Riverside, California, Spring 1992, Lecturer in Statistics

Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, September 1983 to June 1985, Teaching Assistant in Mathematics and Statistics

Selected Consulting

Contracted by the National University of Singapore’s Temasek Defence Systems Institute to give lectures and workshops on design of experiments (DOE) and modeling and simulation (M&S), with an emphasis on national security applications involving systems of systems (2007).

Contracted by NATO's Research and Technology Organization's Consultant and Exchange Program to give seminars on combat modeling and statistical methods in simulation analysis to faculty, officers, and students from the Turkish Military Academy, Turkish Army Headquarters, and Middle East Technical University (2002).

Contracted by RAND to provide peer review of prospective Rand Memorandums (2000 and 2001).

Contracted by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to report to and participate in a model validation workshop for lead exposure models (1996).

Analyzed survey data for Hewlett-Packard customer service department, the results used to redesign the survey (1992).

Subcontracted to Professor David Strauss at the University of California at Riverside on statistical analysis of the effects of toxic waste sites on housing values, the results were used in a legal dispute (1991).

Production, Scheduling, and Inventory Control Systems Development for Japanese software development company (T.S.D. Co., Ltd.), the results were used to improve efficiency in production of plastics (1989).

HONORS AND AWARDS

John K. Walker Jr. Award for the best technical article published in PHALANX during the previous calendar year, Military Operations Research Society, 2021.

Menneken Award for Excellence in Scientific Research Significant and Sustained Contributions at the Naval Postgraduate School, 2019.

Certificate of Appreciation, Training and Doctrine Command Analysis Center in Monterey, 2019. 

Prize for the Teaching of the OR/MS Practice, Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), 2015.

Best Teacher Award, Master of Defence Technology and Systems program, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 2013.

Koopman Prize, for the outstanding publication in military operations research of the previous year, Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), 2013.

UPS George D. Smith Award to an academic department or program for effective and innovative preparation of students to be good practitioners of operations research, Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), 2013.

Master of Defence Technology and Systems Pioneer Teachers Award, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 2013.

Best Teacher Award, Master of Defence Technology and Systems program, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 2011.

Best Teacher Award, Master of Defence Technology and Systems program, academic year, Temasek Defence Systems Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 2009.

Richard W. Hamming Annual Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching at the Naval Postgraduate School, 2009.

Best Teacher Award, Master of Defence Technology and Systems program, academic year, Temasek Defence Systems Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 2007.

Certificate of Appreciation, Training and Doctrine Command Analysis Center in Monterey, August 2007.

Certificate of Appreciation, Training and Doctrine Command Analysis Center in Monterey, October 2006.

Best Teacher Award, Master of Defence Technology and Systems program, academic year, Temasek Defence Systems Institute, National University of Singapore, 2004.

John K. Walker, Jr. Award for the technical article judged to be the best published in PHALANX during the previous calendar year, Military Operations Research Society, 2003.

Outstanding Instructional Performance, Naval Postgraduate School, 1999.

Morris J. Garber Award: Outstanding Graduate Student in Statistics, 1990

University of California Gamma Sigma Delta Honor Society

Hughes Aircraft Doctoral Fellowship, 1987-1991

Hughes Aircraft Masters Fellowship, 1983-1985

Patent Disclosure (#PD-85508):  "Method for Allocating and Assigning Defensive Weapons Against Attacking Weapons."

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)
American Statistical Association (ASA)
International Society of Bayesian Analysts (ISBA)
Military Operations Research Society (MORS)