Thomas W. Lucas
Professor
Operations Research Department
Naval Postgraduate School
United States of America
Biography
Thomas Lucas is a Professor of Operations Research at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) in Monterey California. He has been at NPS since 1998. Previously, he worked for six years as a statistician and project leader at RAND and for eleven years as a systems engineer at Hughes Aircraft Company. SEED is an acronym for Simulation Experiments and Efficient Design. The Center's mission is to advance the collaborative development and use of simulation experiments and efficient designs to provide decision makers with timely insights on complex systems and operations.
Research Interest
Robust Statistical Methodology, Defense and Security Modeling, High-dimensional Design of Experiments.
Publications
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Hogarth, A.R., T.W. Lucas, and C.S. McLemore. "Improving Navy Recruiting with Data Farming," Proceedings of the 2016 Winter Simulation Conference, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers: Piscataway, NJ, 2016, pp. 3576-3577.
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Lucas, T.W., "Learning by Solving Real Problems," ORMS Today, 43(4), August 2016, pp. 24-27.
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Lucas, T.W., M.L. McDonald, B.L. Morgan, P.J. Sanchez, S.M. Sanchez, H.C. Schramm, J.R. Smith, and S.C. Upton, "Improving U.S. Navy Campaign Analyses with Big Data," to appear in Interfaces.
