LTC Nathaniel D. Bastian Assistant Professor Division Chief and Principal Research Scientist - Army Cyber Institute Mathematical Sciences Personal Website nathaniel.bastian [at] westpoint.edu About Education Research & Publications Nathaniel D. Bastian, PhD is a Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Army, where he is an Academy Professor at the United States Military Academy (USMA) at West Point. At USMA, LTC Bastian serves as Division Chief, Data & Decision Sciences and Principal Research Scientist at the Army Cyber Institute (ACI), as well as a faculty member within the Mathematical Sciences, Systems Engineering, and Electrical Engineering & Computer Science departments. LTC Bastian has co-authored 100+ refereed journal articles, conference papers, book chapters, and textbooks. He is the recipient of numerous academic awards and honors, to include a Fulbright Scholarship and National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, and he has received $6M+ in research grants from multiple government organizations (DEVCOM, AFRL, ONR, DARPA, NSA, OUSD, and more). LTC Bastian was previously an Operations Research / Systems Analysis (ORSA) officer with assignments as the Chief Artificial Intelligence Architect at the DoD Joint Artificial Intelligence Center, Operations Research Scientist at the ACI/USMA, and Analytics Officer at the U.S. Army Human Resources Command. Prior to this, he was an Aeromedical Evacuation Officer and UH-60 Black Hawk MEDEVAC Aviator with the 25th Combat Aviation Brigade. Ph.D., Industrial Engineering and Operations Research - Pennsylvania State UniversityM.Eng., Industrial Engineering - Pennsylvania State UniversityM.S., Econometrics and Operations Research - Maastricht UniversityB.S., Engineering Management (Electrical Engineering) with Honors - U.S. Military Academy Research Interests Optimization, simulation, decision theory, machine learning, computational intelligence, statistical computing, network science, econometrics, production economics, data analytics, systems architecture design, systems analysis Current Research Intelligent Battlefield Command and Control Decision Systems, Cyber-Human Systems Engineering and Assessment, AI/ML Enabled Autonomous Cyber Decision Support, Security and Assurance and Robustness of AI/ML Systems, Social-Cybersecurity and Cognitive Warfare, Data Security and Alternative Computing Selected Publications https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=M2aMMxQAAAAJ&hl=en