CPT Austin Semmel Instructor austin.semmel@westpoint.edu Biography Captain Austin Dennis Semmel commissioned from the United States Military Academy in 2015 as a Finance Officer and now serves as an Operations Research and Systems Analyst. He holds a Master’s degree in Statistics (2019) and a Master’s degree in Operations Research (2024), both from NC State University. His hobbies include trail running, playing the guitar and ukulele, and he became a certified sommelier in 2023. He is currently pursuing a PhD in Operations Research from NC State University. He married Morgan Kathryn Semmel in 2016. Ongoing Research Projects Unsupervised Clustering via a Self-Organizing Map for Latent Pattern Detection in US Army Aviation Flight Dispatch DecisionsUS Army Policy Evaluation & Improvement of Aviation Operational Readiness Metric Publications & Presentations Evaluating the Implementation of Operational Readiness and Maintenance Policies in US Army Aviation (Submitted to Journal of Defense Modeling and Simulation)