Research Interests

Computational Biology
Discrete Optimization
Algebraic Statistics

Research Interests.

Colleagues

PhD Students

  • Maj John Sabol (NPS)
  • Maj Chris Teska (NPS)
  • George Aliatimis (Lancaster University)

MS Students

  • Maj Matt MacDonald (NPS)
  • LT Seok Park (NPS)
  • Maj Kyle Kuhn (NPS)
  • LT David Lee (NPS)
  • Maj Janet Karanja (NPS)
  • Maj JuHyung Kim (NPS)
  • Capt Jackson Baker (NPS)
  • LT Charlotte Meyer (NPS)
  • LT Kurt Pasque (NPS)
  • Capt Austin McGahan (NPS)
  • Capt Hannah Crawford (NPS)
  • CPT Sam Fritz-Schreck (NPS)
  • LCDR Allison Hamel (NPS)
  • LT Ned Nicholson (NPS)

Students awarded

  • Capt Ryan Helm (NPS): the FY 23 Copernicus Award
  • LCDR John Waggener (NPS): CNO Award for Excellence in Operations Research
  • Capt Ryan Helm (NPS): the MORS Tisdale Thesis Award
  • LCDR Emmett Delateur (NPS): AY23Q2 Surface Navy Association Award for Academic Excellence
  • CDR Milton Mendieta (NPS): Outstanding Academic Achievement Award for International Students 
  • CDR Milton Mendieta (NPS): Monterey Kiwanis Club Outstanding International Student Award
  • CDR Milton Mendieta (NPS): CNO Award for Excellence in Operations Research
  • ENS Ethan Boone (NPS): the MORS Tisdale Thesis Award
  • Capt Chad Minnick (NPS): Gaver Thesis Award Announcement (INFORMS MAS)
  • Capt Timothy Zebrowski (NPS): CNO Award for Excellence in Operations Research
  • ENS Braedon Mead (NPS): CNO Award for Excellence in Operations Research
  • LT Jonathan Shepherd (NPS): the MORS Tisdale Thesis Award
  • LT Jonathan Shepherd (NPS): The Surface Navy Association’s Award for Excellence in Surface Warfare Research
  • Maj David Wren (NPS): Association of the United States Army, General Joseph W. Stilwell Chapter, Award for Outstanding Army Student
  • Maj Larry Wigington (NPS): Marine Corps Association Superior Service Award for Outstanding U.S. Marine Student
  • Maj Nicholas Freeman (NPS): the MORS Tisdale Thesis Award
  • LT Leondaridis-Mena (NPS): Navy League Award for Outstanding Academic Achievement
  • Squadron Leader Salman Aleem (NPS): the MORS Tisdale Thesis Award

Students with Outstanding Thesis

  • Mr Bingyao Huang (NPS)
  • LCDR John Waggener (NPS)
  • Capt Ryan Helm (NPS)
  • LCDR Emmett Delateur (NPS)
  • ENS Ethan Boone (NPS)
  • ENS Richard Fetter (NPS)
  • CDR Milton Mendieta (NPS)
  • LT Kenneth Marler (NPS)
  • Capt Timothy Zebrowski (NPS)
  • ENS Braedon Mead (NPS)
  • LT Jonathan Shepherd (NPS)
  • Maj Larry Wigington (NPS)
  • Capt. Chris Teska (NPS)
  • LT Carolyne Vu (NPS)
  • LT Ross Spinelli (NPS)
  • Maj Nicholas Freeman (NPS)
  • LT Leondaridis-Mena (NPS)
  • LCDR Patrick Saluke (NPS)
  • SN. Xian Lin Penelope Chia (NPS)
  • Squadron Leader Salman Aleem (NPS)

Students I served as a second reader

Former students I served as a second reader

  • LT Justin Knisely(NPS)
  • ENS Jonathan Dollahite (NPS)
  • Capt Brent Niewoehner (NPS)
  • LCDR Nathaniel Marlow (NPS)
  • Maj Steven Warner (NPS)
  • LCDR Timothy Palic (NPS)
  • Squadron Leader Salman Aleem (NPS)
  • Capt Michael Blankenbeker (NPS)
  • Capt. Anthony Vanderzee (NPS)

Former Students

  • CDR David Barnhill (US Naval Academy)
  • Qiwen Kang (Medpace, Inc.)
  • Grady Weyenberg (University of Hawaii).
  • Jing Xi (Mathematics department, University of Wisconsin-Stout).

Former Postdoc

  • Peter Huggins (Carnegie Mellon University group affiliated with Google Pittsburgh).
  • David Haws (IBM).

Former MS Students

  • Mr Xian Kai Chan (NPS)
  • Mr Bingyao Huang (NPS)
  • MS Yan-ru Lin (NPS)
  • LCDR Lucas Horan (NPS)
  • LT Thuan Chu (NPS)
  • LT Wonbin KO (NPS)
  • LCDR John Waggener (NPS)
  • LT Johnathan Thornton (NPS)
  • CPT Hokyung Kang (NPS)
  • Maj Jordan Thomas (NPS)
  • Mr. Benjamin Polzin (NPS)
  • Capt Ryan Helm (NPS)
  • CAPT Herbert Jockheck (NPS)
  • LT Aaron Chamberlain (NPS)
  • LTC Robert Miske (NPS)
  • LCDR Philip Lukanich (NPS)
  • LT Kyle Plunkett (NPS)
  • LCDR Emmett Delateur (NPS)
  • LCDR Eduardo Castellanos (NPS)
  • CDR Milton Mendieta (NPS)
  • ENS Ethan Boone (NPS)
  • ENS Richard Fetter (NPS)
  • LCDR Stephen Cone (NPS)
  • LT Young Hong (NPS)
  • LT Marcus Garcia (NPS)
  • LCDR Adam Alleman (NPS)
  • LT Kenneth Marler (NPS)
  • Capt Tyler Goble (NPS)
  • Capt Chad Minnick (NPS)
  • CPT Ryan Herrmann (NPS)
  • Capt Timothy Zebrowski (NPS)
  • ENS Patrick Urrutia (NPS)
  • ENS Braedon Mead (NPS)
  • CPT Mark Adams (NPS)
  • LT Vannymae Angeles (NPS)
  • LT Jonathan Shepherd (NPS)
  • Maj Larry Wigington (NPS)
  • Maj David Wren (NPS)
  • Mr. Yi-chung Lin (NPS)
  • ENS Liu Yixuan (NPS)
  • ENS Logan Hughes (NPS)
  • ENS Laurel Hornbuckle (NPS)
  • ENS Zachary Swenson (NPS)
  • LT Ross Spinelli (NPS)
  • Capt Kelsey Hassin (NPS)
  • LTJG Nickos Leondaridis-Mena (NPS)
  • LT. Alejandro Gonzalez (NPS)
  • Capt. Chris Teska (NPS)
  • Maj Joseph Moeller (NPS)
  • Maj Robert Page (NPS)
  • LT Carolyne Vu (NPS)
  • LCDR Patrick Saluke (NPS)
  • Major Nicholas Freeman (NPS)
  • Captain Aaron Stone (NPS)
  • Captain Seungchan Lee (NPS)
  • SN. Xian Lin Penelope Chia (NPS)
  • Captain Dor Kronzilber (NPS)
  • Skyler Speakman (H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy & Management, Carnegie Mellon University).