Dr. Raymond Hill, Lt Col (USAF, Ret) is the AETC nominee for the 2016 AF Analyst of the Year, Senior Civilian category. This award recognizes outstanding performance and analytic excellence in the application of Operations Research based studies, analyses, and assessments in support of the Air Force mission. Evaluation criteria is based on analytic excellence, creativity and innovation, relevance and impact, and leadership.
2016 was a productive year for Dr. Hill he published four journal articles, three conference papers, and 2 book chapters. He was instrumental in standing up the new Journal of Defense Analytics and Logistics, a refereed journal sponsored by AF analytic leadership, which will serve to archive cutting edge research. He served as a gatekeeper for key analytical research in his role as an associate editor for six journals and referee for 35 articles.
He is a model mentor with unsurpassed academic advising abilities that he used to graduate seven masters' students in 2016 while continuing to mentor eight others, in addition to two doctoral students. In the classroom, Dr. Hill is an outstanding educator. He delivered four graduate courses to 68 students and received the top student instruction ratings in his department.
Dr. Hill is a Professor of Operations Research within AFIT's Graduated School of Engineering and Management's Department of Operational Sciences. During his tenure at AFIT, he has built a multi-university research program, the Science of Test Research Consortium supporting the DOD Test and Evaluation enterprise and runs the Graduate Certificate Program in Test and Evaluation. A graduate of AFIT, he earned his master's degree in Operations Research and then completed a doctorate degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering from The Ohio State University.
Dr. Hill is an associate editor for Naval Research Logistics, Military Operations Research, Journal of Defense Modeling and Simulation, Journal of Simulation, and the International Journal of Mathematics in Operational Research. He is a member of the American Statistical Association and the International Test and Evaluation Association. He also earned the 2016 Air Force Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) Educator of the Year Award, and the 2016 Affiliates Societies Council of Dayton Outstanding Engineers and Scientists Award.
Dr. Hill's research interests include Applied Statistics in particular the application of design of experiments methodologies to test and evaluation, Mathematical Optimization in particular the use of heuristic search methods for addressing particularly hard problems, and Applied Simulation Modeling and Analysis with particular interests in the area of agent-based modeling and the validation of such models.
A detailed profile of Dr. Hill, including lists of publications and presentations, can be read here.
