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Name
David Alderson
Title
Professor, Operations Research, Center for Infrastructure Defense, Naval Postgraduate School
Bio
David L. Alderson is a Professor in the Operations Research Department and serves as Founding Director for the Center for Infrastructure Defense at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS).
Over the last 25 years, Dr. Alderson's research has focused on the function and operation of critical infrastructures, with particular emphasis on how to invest limited resources to ensure efficient and resilient performance in the face of accidents, failures, natural disasters, or deliberate attacks. His research explores tradeoffs between efficiency, complexity, and fragility in a wide variety of public and private cyber-physical systems.
Dr. Alderson has been the Principal Investigator (PI) of sponsored research projects for the U.S. Navy, Army, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard.
Since 2018, Dr. Alderson has been PI on a FEMA-funded project supporting recovery and resilience in the U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI) following the devastating hurricanes of 2017. In this capacity, he is leading research efforts to assess and improve the operational resilience of interdependent lifeline infrastructure systems in the USVI and is supporting the development of the next USVI Hazard Mitigation and Resilience Plan (https://www.nps.edu/web/cid/usvi).
Dr. Alderson is currently PI on sponsored research projects funded by the DOD Strategic and Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP) looking at how to military installations and their surrounding communities more resilient in the presence of climate-driven surprises.
Dr. Alderson is an active member in the DOD Environmental Security Working Group (ESWG) and OSD Resource Competition, Environmental Security, and Stability (RECESS) Team. At NPS, Dr. Alderson serves as advisor to the Climate and Security Network (www.nps.edu/climate) which coordinates climate-related research and education across campus.
Dr. Alderson received his doctorate from Stanford University and his undergraduate degree from Princeton University. He has held research positions at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), the University of California Los Angeles, the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), and the Santa Fe Institute. He has extensive industry experience and has worked for several venture-back startup companies. His early career was spent developing technology at Goldman Sachs & Co. in New York City.
Over the last 25 years, Dr. Alderson's research has focused on the function and operation of critical infrastructures, with particular emphasis on how to invest limited resources to ensure efficient and resilient performance in the face of accidents, failures, natural disasters, or deliberate attacks. His research explores tradeoffs between efficiency, complexity, and fragility in a wide variety of public and private cyber-physical systems.
Dr. Alderson has been the Principal Investigator (PI) of sponsored research projects for the U.S. Navy, Army, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard.
Since 2018, Dr. Alderson has been PI on a FEMA-funded project supporting recovery and resilience in the U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI) following the devastating hurricanes of 2017. In this capacity, he is leading research efforts to assess and improve the operational resilience of interdependent lifeline infrastructure systems in the USVI and is supporting the development of the next USVI Hazard Mitigation and Resilience Plan (https://www.nps.edu/web/cid/usvi).
Dr. Alderson is currently PI on sponsored research projects funded by the DOD Strategic and Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP) looking at how to military installations and their surrounding communities more resilient in the presence of climate-driven surprises.
Dr. Alderson is an active member in the DOD Environmental Security Working Group (ESWG) and OSD Resource Competition, Environmental Security, and Stability (RECESS) Team. At NPS, Dr. Alderson serves as advisor to the Climate and Security Network (www.nps.edu/climate) which coordinates climate-related research and education across campus.
Dr. Alderson received his doctorate from Stanford University and his undergraduate degree from Princeton University. He has held research positions at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), the University of California Los Angeles, the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), and the Santa Fe Institute. He has extensive industry experience and has worked for several venture-back startup companies. His early career was spent developing technology at Goldman Sachs & Co. in New York City.
