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Benjamin Thengvall, Ph.D. |
Talk title: An Introduction to Simulation Optimization
Required reading: The Exploding Domain of Simulation Optimization
Biographical information:
Dr. Benjamin Thengvall is an Optimization Architect of OptTek Systems, Inc. He earned his M.S.E. and Ph.D. in Operations Research and Industrial Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. Prior to joining OptTek, he was an Operations Research Scientist at Navitaire, Inc., a leading operations research technology firm serving the airline industry. With Navitaire he was a primary contributor to systems for real-time aircraft routing and scheduling and pilot manpower planning.
He currently manages the activities in OptTek's office in Omaha, Nebraska, providing support for USSTRATCOM. In Omaha, he has led the design and implementation of a Leontief-based input-output model for effects-based planning, a generalized mathematical model for effects-based planning, a tabu search-based mission scheduling algorithm, and a macro-level force engagement model using a sequential linear programming approach.