LTC(P) Mike Powell Assistant Professor Program Director - Applied Statistics and Data Science mike.powell [at] westpoint.edu About Education Research & Publications LTC Powell currently serves as the Program Director for Applied Statistics and Data Science Program. LTC Powell was commissioned in 2004 from the United States Military Academy as an Aviation officer. Following flight school at Fort Rucker, Alabama, he joined the 2-227 General Support Aviation Battalion in the 1st Air Cavalry Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, at Fort Hood, Texas. Over the next five years with the 1st Air Cavalry Brigade (three years at Fort Hood and two years in Iraq), he was a headquarters company executive officer, a UH-60 flight platoon leader, a UH-60 flight company commander, and finally a brigade headquarters company commander. LTC Powell transitioned to Functional Area 49 (Operations Research Systems Analysis) in 2013 while in graduate school en route to the Department of Mathematical Sciences at West Point. He later served as an ORSA in a data scientist role with the US Army Intelligence and Security Command at Fort Belvoir, Virginia. LTC Powell joined the faculty of the Department of Mathematical Sciences again in 2022. Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering - Johns Hopkins University M.S.E. in Biomedical Engineering - Johns Hopkins University B.S. in Mathematical Sciences - United States Military Academy Current Research Exposing residual confounding in observational healthcare studies, Data fusion and multimodal machine learning) Selected Publications Clark, Nicholas, Christopher Morrell, and Mike Powell. "Assessment and Continuous Improvement of an Undergraduate Data Science Program." The American Statistician just-accepted (2024): 1-35.Powell, Mike, Callahan Clark, Anton Alyakin, Joshua T. Vogelstein, and Brian Hart. "Exploration of residual confounding in analyses of associations of metformin use and outcomes in adults with type 2 diabetes." JAMA Network Open 5, no. 11 (2022): e2241505-e2241505.Koenecke, Allison, Michael Powell, Ruoxuan Xiong, Zhu Shen, Nicole Fischer, Sakibul Huq, Adham M. Khalafallah et al. "Alpha-1 adrenergic receptor antagonists to prevent hyperinflammation and death from lower respiratory tract infection." Elife 10 (2021): e61700.Powell, Michael A., Javier O. Garcia, Fang-Cheng Yeh, Jean M. Vettel, and Timothy Verstynen. "Local connectome phenotypes predict social, health, and cognitive factors." Network neuroscience 2, no. 1 (2018): 86-105.Powell, Michael A., Rahul R. Kaliki, and Nitish V. Thakor. "User training for pattern recognition-based myoelectric prostheses: Improving phantom limb movement consistency and distinguishability." IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering 22, no. 3 (2013): 522-532.