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David Phillips
Takoma Park,MD
Summary
Results-driven quantitative professional excelling project management and deploying decision support tools. Experienced in leading diverse collaborative efforts that require adaptability to dynamic project requirements. Expertise in strategic planning, stakeholder relations, enhancing operational efficiency, and leading research programs.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
Work History
Program Officer
Office of Naval Research
05.2020 - Current
- Lead and manage over 100 performers developing and deploying decision support tools for contested logistics used by the Marines and Navy. Facilitated and engaged with various stakeholders at different logistics and planning commands worldwide to determine product vision and usecases.
- Lead and manage academics and engineers developing and deploying a novel scheduling decision support tool now used regularly by Navy submarine schedulers.
- Lead and manage two other applied projects concerned with imaging, sensing, and cybersecurity.
- Managed an academic grants program funding over 70 world class academics developing novel optimization models and algorithms critical to a broad set of topics including artificial intelligence, machine learning, multiagent games, and compressed sensing. Evaluated and managed the review of proposals, improved the financial execution, and, through outreach, and more than doubled the number of proposal submissions.
Associate Professor
United States Naval Academy
08.2011 - 06.2022
- Served as the Senior Advisor for the Operations Research major managing and mentoring new faculty members, offering guidance on effective teaching techniques and classroom management strategies.
- Served on academic committees including hiring, majors curriculum, and honors working on recruitment and evaluation of job candidates, curricular development, and research student evaluation.
- Taught two to three courses each semester. Mentored and advised over ten research students and continued an active research program.
Assistant Professor
College of William & Mary
08.2006 - 08.2011
- Developed a research program in combinatorial and convex optimization with a focus on developing state-of-the-art algorithms and decision support tools. Advised several graduate and undergraduate research students.
- Taught two undergraduate and graduate courses every semester on a range of topics including linear optimization, network flows, calculus, and fundamentals of mathematics.
- Participated in all departmental meetings working on hiring, curriculum, and faculty evaluation.
Education
Ph.D. - Operations Research
Columbia University
New York, NY02.2007
B.A. with Honors - Mathematics
Oberlin College
Oberlin, OH05.1997
Skills
- Mathematical modeling and analysis with an emphasis on optimization and data aware decision making
- Project management with an emphasis on decision support tool building and research projects
- Program management with an emphasis on analyzing and choosing research performers who can deliver impactful results
- Programming including Python, C/C, R, Fortran, Java, Matlab, SAS, SQL, AMPL, and Visual Basic
Academic accomplishments
- Over 20 publications including articles in the SIAM Journal on Optimization, Networks, IEEE Control Systems Letters, Journal on Computational Graphics and Statistics, Neuroimage: Clinical, and the Journal on Statistical Mechanics.
- Advised over 15 undergraduate and graduate research students
- Taught over 1200 students in a variety of optimization and mathematics courses including linear programming, convex optimization, network algorithms, simulation, scheduling, calculus, and discrete mathematics.
- Recipient of grant support from the National Science Foundation, Office of Naval Research, and NASA
- Gave over 100 presentations at conferences including the INFORMS Annual Meeting, the INFORMS Computing Society, the International Conference on Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization (IPCO) and the SIAM Dynamical Systems conference.
- Referee for a variety of journals including Mathematical Programming, Mathematics of Operations Research, INFORMS Journal on Computing, Naval Research Logistics, Linear Algebra and its Applications, Health Care Management Science
Affiliations
- INFORMS, SIAM
Interests
Timeline
Program Officer
Office of Naval Research
05.2020 - Current
Associate Professor
United States Naval Academy
08.2011 - 06.2022
Assistant Professor
College of William & Mary
08.2006 - 08.2011
B.A. with Honors - Mathematics
Oberlin College
Ph.D. - Operations Research
Columbia University
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