Dr. Lance E. Champagne, Associate Professor

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Thesis Advisor, M.S. in Operations Research                                                                                                               2018-Present

24. MAJ Jeffrey Wilson. Lethality and Survivability of Autonomous Self-Sensing UAVs. AFIT-ENS-MS-25-M -196. March 2025.

23. Mr. Sidhanth Venkatasubramaniam. Utility of Self-Sensing Damage Technology Through A2/AD Drone Simulation. AFIT-ENS-MS-25-M -201. March 2025.

22. Lt Harmoni Blackstock. Simulating the Impact of Self-Sensing Materials on Aircraft Sortie Generation. AFIT-ENS-MS-25-M-249. March 2025.

21. Lt Colin Foley. Techniques for Extreme Class Imbalance for Neural Network Classification. AFIT-ENS-MS-24-M-079. March 2024.

20. Capt Jacob Lang. Problem Generalization for Neural Network Learning. AFIT-ENS-MS-24-M-086. March 2024.

19. Lt Ebony Williams. Analysis of Threat Avoidance Algorithms and Cost Functions in AFSIM. AFIT-ENS-MS-24-M-101. March 2024

18. Lt Michael Kaminski. Simulating Autonomous-Human Teams in an Anti-Access Area Denial Environment Using AFSIM. AFIT-ENS-MS-24-M-083. March 2024.

17. Capt Chad MacWilkinson: Advancing Autonomous Swarm Behavior in a Simulated Anti-Access Area Denial (A2AD) Environment. AFIT-ENS-MS-23-M-140. March 2023.

16. MAJ Alexander Martinez: Simulating Autonomous Drone Behaviors in an Anti-Access Area Denial (A2AD) Environment. AFIT-ENS-MS-23-M-142. March 2023.

15. Maj Dante Reid: Simulation and Analysis of Dynamic Threat Avoidance Routing in an Anti-Access Area Denial (A2AD) Environment. AFIT-ENS-MS-23-M-152. March 2023.

14. Lt Seth Allen: Impact of Drone Autonomy on High Value Airborne Asset Defense Using High Energy Lasers. AFIT-ENS-MS-23-M-110. March 2023.

13. Lt Jonathan Turner: Analysis of Generalized AI Potential through Evaluation of Reinforcement and Deep Reinforcement Learning. AFIT-ENS-MS-22-M-171. March 2022.

12. Lt Kyle Goggins: Simulating Autonomous Cruise Missile Swarm Behaviors in an Anti-Access Area Denial (A2AD) Environment. AFIT-ENS-MS-22-M-132. March 2022.

11. Lt Glen Drumm: Smoothing of Convolutional Neural Network Classifications. AFIT-ENS-MS-22-M-122. March 2022.

10. Wilson Tucker: Simulation and Analysis of Dijkstra’s Routing Algorithm for A2AD Using AFSIM. AFIT-ENS-MS-21-D-038. December 2021.

9. Lt Emmie Swize:?Bayesian Augmentation of Convolutional Neural?Network – Long Short-Term Memory for Video?Classification with Uncertainty Measures. AFIT-ENS-MS-21-M-186. March 2021.

8. Lt Nicholas Pollack:?Simulation and Analysis of High Value Airborne Asset?Defense with Autonomous Systems. AFIT-ENS-MS-21-M-178. March 2021.

7. Julia Haines:?Automated Sentiment Analysis for Personnel Survey?Data in the US Air Force Context.?AFIT-ENS-MS-21-M-164. March 2021.

6. Capt Jeremiah Bill:?Meta-Heuristic Optimization Methods for?Quaternion-Valued Neural Networks.?AFIT-ENS-MS-21-M-143. March 2021.

5. Lt Maria Schroeder:?Reconciliation of Hierarchical Time-Series Forecasting of?Restaurant Attendance for Walt Disney World.?AFIT-ENS-MS-20-M-170. March 2020.

4. Capt Joseph Maloney:?Simulating a Hypersonic Intelligence, Surveillance, and?Reconnaissance (ISR) Aircraft's Military Utility in an Anti-Access?Area Denial (A2AD) Environment.?AFIT-ENS-MS-20-M-161. March 2020.

3. Lt Stephen Lee: Ground Weather RADAR Signal?Characterization through Application of Convolutional Neural Networks. AFIT-ENS-MS-20-M-158. March 2020.

2. Capt Adam Brakeville:?A Random Forest Approach to Classify Fixed Wallet Guests at Walt?Disney World Resort.?AFIT-ENS-MS-20-M-133. March 2020.

1.?Lt Lauren Bramblett: Turbojet Range, Loiter, and Altitude Tradeoff Estimations in Efficient Modeling and Optimization Formulations. AFIT-ENS-MS-19-M-102. March 2019. (MORS Award Winner)

Thesis Advisor, M.S. in Data Science                                                                                                               2023-Present

1. Lt Joshua Edmonds. Class Imbalance: A Landscape of Classification Models. AFIT-ENS-MS-25-M-166. March 2025.

Thesis Co-Advisor, M.S. in Operations Research                                                                                                               2018-2021

2. Capt Timothy Roche: Statistically Defensible Wind Tunnel Models. AFIT-ENS-MS-21-M-181. March 2021 (Co-Advisor Lt Col Eric Brooks, ENC)

1. Lt Peter Calhoun:?Characterizing Uncertainty in Correlated Response Variables for Pareto Front Optimization.?AFIT-ENS-MS-20-M-136. March 2020. (Co-Advisor Lt Col Beau Nunnally, ENC)