Academy Professor at the United States Military Academy, West Point, serving as the Director for West Point’s Operations Research Center in the Department of Systems Engineering
Colonel David Beskow is an Academy Professor at the United States Military Academy, West Point, where he serves as the Director for West Point’s Operations Research Center in the Department of Systems Engineering. He specializes in applying data science to cyber, intelligence, and special operations.
Commissioned in 2001 from West Point, he served as an infantry leader in the 82nd Airborne Division and 4th Infantry Division and was deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq. From 2009 through 2022, he served as an FA49 Operations Research & Systems Analyst (ORSA), where he served as a data scientist at the Intelligence and Security Command and later as the Chief Data Scientist at Army Cyber Command. Since 2022, he has served as an Academy Professor in the Department of Systems Engineering.
For his PhD at Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science, he applied machine learning algorithms to information warfare. A graduate of Ranger School and other military programs, he holds a BS in Civil Engineering, an MS in Operations Research, and a PhD in Societal Computing.