LTC Russell Nelson Assistant Professor Associate Director - Operations Research Program Mathematical Sciences russell.nelson [at] westpoint.edu About Education Research & Publications LTC Russell Nelson, PhD, serves as the Associate Director of the Operations Research Program for the Department of Mathematical Sciences at West Point. LTC Nelson holds a B.S. in Engineering Management (USMA, 2005), an M.S. in Applied Mathematics (NPS 2015), and a PhD in Operations Research (NCSU, 2023). His research interests include optimization, transportation modeling, and Army aviation & logistics. Prior to joining the USMA faculty, LTC Nelson served in the operational Army as an Aviation officer, with combat deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, and as an operations research / systems analyst (ORSA) at Army Test and Evaluation Command (ATEC). Ph.D. in Operations Research - North Carolina State University M.S. in Applied Mathematics - Naval Postgraduate School B.S. in Engineering Management - U.S. Military Academy Current Research Ongoing contested logistics collaboration with the US Army Corps of Engineers Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC). Selected Publications Nelson, R., Werner, J., Daniels, R., Kay, M., King, R., McConnell, B., & Thoney-Barletta, K. (2024) “Air Movement Operations Planning Heuristic Improvement.” Journal of Defense Analytics and Logistics.Nelson, R., Werner, J., Kay, M., King, R., McConnell, B., & Thoney-Barletta, K. (2023) “A Two-stage Stochastic Programming Model for Allocating Utility Helicopters to Task Forces for US Army Aviation Planners.” Journal of Defense Modeling and Simulation. Article in press.Nelson, R., King, R., McConnell, B., & Thoney-Barletta, K. (2023) “US Army Aviation Air Movement Operations Assignment, Utilization, and Routing.” Journal of Defense Analytics and Logistics. Vol 7, No. 1, 2-28.Nelson, R. Cheatham, D. Gallagher, K. Bigelman, and D. M. Thomas. (2018) “Revisiting the United States Army Body Composition Standards: a Receiver Operating Characteristic Analysis.” International Journal of Obesity. Vol 43, 1508-1515.