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MAJ Nick Howard
Instructor
US Army
Contact Information:
Office Location: Thayer Hall 252
Phone:
5649
Email:
nicholas.howard@usma.edu
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MAJ Howard currently teaches MA206 Probability & Statistics.
B.S. Operations Research, United States Military Academy at West Point, 2002
M.S. Operations Research, Massacusetts Institute of Technology, 2011
Relevant Positions Held
United States Military Academy, West Point - Instructor of Mathematics, 2011-present
Company Commander, 2-506 IN, 101st ABN Division, Afghanistan and Fort Campbell, 2007-2009
Staff Officer and Platoon Leader, 2-6 IN, 1st Armored Division, Iraq and Germany, 2003-2007
"Finding Optimal Strategies for Influencing Social Networks in Two Player Games", Master's Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011
MAJ Nick Howard is involved in several research initiatives with the Network Science Algorithmics Group. He received the Omar Bradley Fellowship this year to fund research in partially observable networks, and is involved in a Army Research Grant (ARO) grant along with MAJ Paulo Shakarian (D/EECS USMA) for combinatorial and scalable initiation in complex networks.