LTC Christopher M. Smith, Assistant Professor of Operations Research
LTC Christopher M. Smith is an Assistant Professor of Operations Research with the Department of Operational Sciences, Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT).
Prior to arriving as a faculty member, he served for 21 years as an active duty Army officer in a variety of leadership, field artillery, military planning, and educational assignments. Deployments include a yearlong combat tour with the 4th Infantry Division (Mechanized), and a tour as an enlisted Military Policeman in Panama, a year after Operation Just Cause in 1992. He taught undergraduate mathematics and probability and Statistics in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at West Point, NY from 2007-2010.
LTC Smith’s technical research emphasizes applied work in decision and risk analysis as well as data mining and a variety of network applications. Additionally, he is interested in research involving the use of social media analysis. He also serves as the President of the Social Media Analytics subdivision in INFORMS.