Hello, my name is Ned Dimitrov. I am an Assistant Professor in Operations Research at the Naval Postgraduate School. My research is in stochastic combinatorial optimization with applications to disease control and nuclear smuggler interdiction.
Previously, I was a post-doc in the Operations Research Program at UT Austin.
I graduated from the UT Computer Science department in May 2008. My thesis is on several problems arising in large-scale computing environments involving stochasticity, optimization, and game theory.
You may contact me through email using ned at nps dot edu.
Three New Masters Theses
Three of my students graduated in the last few months. Rob Alexander did his thesis on modeling resiliency in the California milk supply chain. Yong Kiong Teo did his thesis on locating healthcare facilities in Bamyan, Afghanistan. Yuval Nevo did his thesis on intelligence collection in a glut of information. Their thesis documents, and presentations are available online.
Networks Class Student Projects
For the Networks class in winter of 2011, the students had to do a quarter-long network modeling project. They selected a network of interest to them, modeled the network's operation, and modeled the networks resiliency. We had a number of excellent class projects during the quarter. All of the project writeups and presentations can be viewed online on the Networks Class page.
Selected Research Tags
spectroscopy, online algorithm, leishmaniasis, random process, MDP design, spectrum acquisition, resource augmentation, interdiction, seeded localized averaging, papers, secretary problem, vector borne disease, mouse, notes, ned picture, nuclear, search, nigeria, core, networkOlder News
Two New Talk Videos
The Talks page has two new talk videos from conferences earlier this year. The first talk is on Design of Influenza Surveillance Networks and was delivered at INFORMS ICS 2011 in Monterey, California and COR ... [More]
Three New Papers
The Papers page now contains three new papers from earlier this year. The first is on Antiviral Control of Influenza, the second is on Malaria ... [More]