Dr. Chris Smith

Associate Teaching Professor

OFFICE: Farrell 335

BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Smith joined the WFU faculty in July of 2019. Prior to that he served over 20 years in the Army in a variety of positions. Most recently he taught graduate level Operations Research at the Air Force Institute of Technology, served as a center director for an Operations Research center, and taught Probability and Statistics at West Point.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Data Science
Decision Analysis
Business Analytics

TEACHING INTERESTS

Data Science
Decision Analysis
Business Analytics

EDUCATION

Ph D, University of Virginia (Systems Engineering) - 2013
MS, University of Texas - Austin (Operations Research) - 2007
MS, Missouri University of Science and Technology (Engineering Management) - 2002
BS, West Point (Systems Engineering) - 1997

PUBLICATIONS

International Journal of Market Research

Market basket applications on short web links

Gallagher, J. , & Smith, C. (2019)

The Journal of Open Source Software

Sentiment Analysis of Twitter Data (saotd)

Munson, E. L. , Smith, C. M. , Boehmke, B. , & Freels, J. K. (2019)

Journal of Applied Operations Research

Improving admissions processes through value focused thinking

Deehr, J. , Smith, C. M. , & Hill, R. R. (2018)

Social Network Analysis and Mining

Stepping back from the trees to see the forest: a network approach to valuing intelligence

Smith, C. , Scherer, W. T. , & Todd, A. (2016)

Journal of Applied Operational Research

Value of intelligence applied to networks

Smith, C. M. , Scherer, W. T. , & Carr, S. (2016)

International Journal of Strategic Decision Sciences

Quantitative approaches to representing the value of information within the intelligence cycle

Smith, C. M. , Scherer, W. T. , Todd, A. , & Maxwell, D. T. (2015)

Risk Analysis

Intelligent adversary risk analysis: A bioterrorism risk management model

Parnell, G. S. , Smith, C. , & Moxley, F. I. (2010)

Risk Analysis

Response to Parnell, Smith, and Moxley, Intelligent Adversary Risk Analysis: A Bioterrorism Risk Management Model, Risk Analysis, Vol. 30, No. 1, 2010

Ezell, B. , & Collins, A. (2010)