Senior Professional Staff, JHU Applied Physics Laboratory
Dr. Paul J. Nicholas is an adjunct instructor at The Johns Hopkins University. He teaches a graduate course on discrete hybrid optimization as part of JHU’s Engineering for Professionals (EP) program. Paul is an operations research scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU APL), and also serves in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve.
Paul’s research focuses on the use of advanced analytic techniques to examine problems in healthcare and national security, including resource allocation, communications systems, cyberspace operations, and electronic warfare. He is interested in large-scale combinatorial optimization and simulation.
Paul received his B.S. from the U.S. Naval Academy, his M.S. from the Naval Postgraduate School, and his Ph.D. from George Mason University. On active duty, he deployed several times to Iraq and Afghanistan in support of combat operations as a communications officer and operations research analyst. He was a visiting fellow to the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab, and an MIT Seminar XXI Fellow. He is a member of MORS, INFORMS, and IEEE, and previously served on the MORS Board of Directors and as the MORS Vice President for Meeting Operations.