IS Department Faculty - Information Sciences
Information Sciences Department Chair Dr. Alex Bordetsky
Dr. Alex Bordetsky is a tenured Professor of Information Sciences at the Naval Postgraduate School. He also holds a dual appointment with the Space Systems Academic Group at NPS. Professor Bordetsky is the Director of the NPS Center for Network Innovation and Experimentation (CENETIX). He is a recipient of the prestigious Robert W. Hamming Interdisciplinary Research Award for the pioneering studies of collaborative technologies and adaptive networking and the Fulbright Senior Fellowship Award for the experimental studies of unconventional maritime networking. Dr. Bordetsky is the Principal Investigator for the renowned TNT MIO Military-Academic Experimentation Campaign, which is now in transformation to the Littoral and Maritime-Land CWMD operations study. His research accomplishments are featured in the AFCEA SIGNAL Magazine, Via Sat, USSOCOM Tip of the Spear Journal, Pentagon Channel, and Fulbright Newsletter.
Dr. Bordetsky publishes in major IS journals including Information Systems Research, Telecommunication Systems Modeling and Analysis, International Journal of Mobile Wireless Communications, and International Command and Control Research Journal.
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Information Sciences Department Faculty
Tarek Abdel-Hamid
Professor (1986)
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1986
Albert Barreto
Lecturer (2006)
M.S., Naval Postgraduate School, 2011
Research Interests
Server operating systems, wireless networking, and virtualization technologies as well as Distance Learning. Research areas are moving in the direction of virtualization labs, Decision Support System integration and technologies, and Web Enabled applications.
Jane Barreto
Research Associate
Richard Bergin
Visiting Assistant Professor (2002)
M.S., University of Southern California, 1998.
Dan C. Boger
Professor, Department of Information Sciences (1979)
Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley, 1979.
Alexander Bordetsky
Chairman and Professor
Ph.D., Chelyabinsk State Technical University of Russia, 1982
Tristan Borne
Director, Center of Information Warfare and Innovation
M.S., Naval Postgraduate School, 2012
Research Interests
IT, AI/ML, Networks, Satellite Communications
Eugene Bourakov
Research Associate (2002)
MSEE, Chelyabinsk State Technical University of Russia, 1974.
Donald Brutzman
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Naval Postgraduate School, 1994.
Research Interests
Don Brutzman is a computer scientist and Associate Professor working in the Modeling Virtual Environments & Simulation (MOVES) Institute and Undersea Warfare Center at the Naval Postgraduate School. His research interests include underwater robotics, real-time 3D computer graphics, artificial intelligence and high-performance networking. He is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Graphics (SIGGRAPH) and the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). He is a board member of non-profit Sea Lab Monterey Bay, which is designing and building a youth-oriented year-round residential science camp. He is a founding member of the non-profit Web3D Consortium Board of Directors. He organized and led the SIGGRAPH Online 2001 team, designing and developing a huge audio/video/Web/XML information architecture. Currently he leads the Extensible 3D (X3D) Working Group for the ISO X3D/VRML Specification, and directs development of the Virtual Reality Transfer Protocol (vrtp) and the Extensible Modeling and Simulation Framework (XMSF).
Raymond R. Buettner, Jr.
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Stanford University, 2003
A. Mustafa Canan
Assistant Professor
Doctor of Philosophy Old Dominion University, 2017
Research Interests
Decision Making, Information operations, Machine Learning, Situational Awareness, Shared Awareness, Complex Adaptive Behavior
Glenn R. Cook
Senior Lecturer
M.S., Naval Postgraduate School, 1994, 2003.
Jonathan Coon
Faculty Associate--Research
B.S., Computer Science and Engineering, Santa Clara University, 2017
Research Interests
Data collection, management, and dissemination systems; Automation for process improvement; Mobile and web application development; Field experimentation
Duane Davis
Research Assistant Professor
PhD, Naval Postgraduate School, 2006
Research Interests
Swarm robotics, robotic ethics, object oriented design, artificial intelligence, and aerial robotic swarms.
Lyla Englehorn
Faculty Associate – Research
M.P.P, Panetta Institute (CSUMB), 2010
Research Interests
International maritime doctrine and practice, and climate change as it impacts global security policy.
Edward Fisher
Lecturer (2005)
M.A., California State University, 1989
Shelley P. Gallup
Research Associate Professor (1999)
Ph.D., Old Dominion University, 1998
Research Interests
Research interests are in knowledge systems, Organization development, Research methods applied to complex systems
Victor R. Garza
Lecturer
M.S., Golden Gate University, 2000
Research interests
Networking, wireless networking, computer security, computer virtualization and ISR
Arkady Godin
Research Associate
Susan Higgins
Lecturer (1999)
M.S., Naval Postgraduate School, 1988.
Ashley Hobson
Faculty Associate--Research
B.A., UC Irvine, 2013
Research Interests
Urban Policy, Planning and Design; Emergency Management, Field Experimentation
Thomas J. Housel
Associate Chair for Faculty Development
Ph.D., University of Utah, 1980
Steven J. Iatrou
Senior Lecturer (2000)
M.S., Naval Postgraduate School, 1992.
Cynthia Irvine
Distinguished Professor and Director, Center for Information Systems Security Studies and Research
Ph.D., Case Western University, 1975
Research Interests
Information Assurance, Multilevel Security, High Assurance Security Engineering, Network Security, Security Models, Distributed Systems Security, Security Requirements Engineering, Information Assurance Pedagogy, Systems Architecture
Erik Jansen
Senior Lecturer (1994)
Ph.D., University of Southern California, 1987
Magdi N. Kamel
Associate Professor (1988)
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1988.
Anthony Kendall
Lecturer (1999)
M.S., Naval Postgraduate School, 1980
Douglas MacKinnon
Research Associate Professor
PhD, Stanford University, 2007
Randall Maule
Visiting Associate Professor (2003)
Ph.D., University of Florida, 1987
Mollie McGuire
Research Assistant Professor (2017)
PhD, Claremont Graduate University, 2016
Research Interests
Cognitive Science, Human-Machine Teaming, Stress and Performance, Cognitive Load, Heuristics and Biases on Information Processing, Memory, Attention
Scot Miller
CAPT, USN (Ret), Research Associate
Steven Mullins
COL, USA (Ret), Research Associate
Jonathan Mun
Research Professor
Mark Nissen
Professor, (1996)
Ph.D., University of Southern California, 1996
Research Interests
Professor Nissen’s research focuses on the dynamics of knowledge and organization--particularly in the context of command & control (i.e., organization & management)--and he views work, organization, people and technology as an integrated design problem. He is leading a new initiative to investigate command & control in virtual environments, but he is probably known best for his work in Defense Knowledge Management, where he takes a principled approach (e.g., based on his 2006 book entitled Harnessing Knowledge Dynamics: Principled Organizational Knowing & Learning) to enhancing knowledge flows in operational settings.
Carl L. Oros
Faculty Associate--Research
Ph.D., Naval Postgraduate School, 2018
Sharon Runde
Research Assistant
Noboru Schwamm
Research Assistant
Gerald Scott
Research Associate
Alan Shaffer
Senior Lecturer
Ph.D., Naval Postgraduate School, 2008
Research Interests
Security modeling of systems; high assurance system verification; formal methods analysis; network virtualization. Research interests moving toward data science and cloud computing.
Robert Simeral
CAPT, USN (Ret), Senior Lecturer
Brian Wood
Research Associate
Ying Zhao
Research Professor of Information Sciences (2009)
Research Interests
Her research includes knowledge management approaches, data/text mining, lexical link analysis (LLA), system self-awareness (SSA), search and visualization methods for improving the use and understanding of data within DoD in the areas of acquisition research, Navy recruiting, maritime domain awareness, defense analysis, social media war games, humanitarian relief operations, comprehensive capability studies.