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Dr. Robert Brigantic is the chief operations research scientist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), supporting the National Security Directorate. Brigantic joined PNNL in 2005 and is responsible for leading PNNL’s Statistical Modeling and Experimental Design team and conducting operations-oriented research in national security, renewable energy, and health domains. Specialties include operational modeling and simulation, statistical pattern recognition, artificial intelligence, design of experiments, and optimization. He also serves as an adjunct professor of operations research at Washington State University.

Brigantic is a retired U.S. Air Force officer with a 22-year career on active duty with the United States Air Force. In the Air Force, he specialized in weapon systems logistics, space operations focusing on command-and-control systems for space shuttle operations and space test systems, and strategic airlift transportation. His technical concentration areas included operational modeling and simulation, systems analysis, statistical pattern recognition/artificial intelligence, imagery analysis, design of experiments, and multi-objective optimization.

• Design of Experiments
• Design Verification Testing
• Mathematical Optimization
• Operations Research
• Simulation Modeling
   

• PhD in Operations Research, Air Force Institute of Technology
• MS in Space Operations, Air Force Institute of Technology
• BS in Chemical Engineering, Oregon State University
   

• Military Operations Research Society
• Society for Risk Analysis
   

• Project Team of the Year Award, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
• Exceptional Contribution Award, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
• Outstanding Performance Award, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
• Elected Faculty Member, Omega Rho International Honor Society for Operations Research
• Field Grade Officer Analyst of the Year, United States Air Force
• Honoree, Manned Spaceflight Awareness Award, National Aeronautics and Space Administration

2022

• Betzsold, N., Brigantic R., et al., “Airport Risk Assessment Model (ARAM) Risk Formulation,” Risk Analysis, Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management,” (Submitted Feb 2022).

2021

• S. Chatterjee, Brigantic, R., and A. Waterworth, Editors, “Wiley Series in Operations Research and Management Science,” Applied Risk Analysis for Guiding Homeland Security Policy and Decisions.  Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2021.

2020

• Bakker C., C. Perkins, J. Webster, K. Nowak, R. Brigantic, S. Chatterjee, “Multi-Game Modeling for Counter-Smuggling,” Reliability Engineering and System Safety, Volume 200, (2020).

2018

• Brayfindley E., R.C. Smith, J. Mattingly, and R. Brigantic, “Automated Defect Detection in Spent Nuclear Fuel Using Combined Cerenkov Radiation and Gamma Emission Tomography Data,” Nuclear Technology, 204:3, 343-353, DOI: 10.1080/00295450.2018.1490123, (2018).

2013

• Fountain M.S., R.T. Brigantic, and R.A. Peterson, Statistical Methods and Tools for Hanford Staged Feed Tank Sampling, PNNL-22901, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, (2013).
• Eddy R. and R.T. Brigantic, “Employing the Radiological and Nuclear Risk Assessment Methods (RNRAM) for assessing radiological and nuclear detection architectures,” International Conference on Nuclear Security: Enhancing Global Efforts, Vienna, Austria (IAEA-CN-203), (2013).

2012

• Corley C.D., R. Arthur, R.T. Brigantic, et al, “Assessing the Continuum of Event-Based Biosurveillance Through an Operational Lens,” Biosecurity and Bioterrorism: Biodefense Strategy, Practice and Science, (March 2012).

2011

• Maciejewski R., R.T. Brigantic, P. Livengood, S. Rudolph, T.Collins, D. Ebert, C. Corley, G. Muller and S. Sanders, “A Pandemic Influenza Modeling and Visualization Tool,” Journal of Visual Languages & Computing, Vol. 22, Issue 4, Part Special Issue on Challenging Problems in Geovisual Analytics (2011).

2009

• Brigantic, R.T., J.D. Malone, G.A. Muller, R. Lee, J. Kulesz, W. Delp, and B.H. McMahon, “Simulation to assess the efficacy of U.S. airport entry screening of passengers for pandemic influenza,” International Journal of Risk Assessment & Management, Vol. 12, Nos. 2/3/4 (2009).
• Brigantic, R.T., G.A. Muller, A.E. Taylor, A.F. Papatyi, “Gaming to Predict Human Responses to Mass Casualty Events - An Approach for Quick Look Tools for Pandemic Influenza,” IEEE 2009 International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, CSE, Vol. 4, pp. 1194-1198, Vancouver, Canada (August 2009).
• Malone, J.D., R.T. Brigantic, G.A. Muller, A. Gadgil, W. Delp, B.H. McMahon, R. Lee, J. Kulesz, F.M. Mihelic, “U.S. airport entry screening in response to pandemic influenza: Modeling and analysis,” Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease, Vol. 7, Issue 4, (2009).

2005

• Johnson, A., R.T. Brigantic, and J.M. Mahan, “Strategic Mobility and Deployment,” Methods for Conducting Operational Analysis: Best Practices in use Throughout the DoD. Military Operations Research Society, 2005.

2004

• Brigantic, R.T., and J.M. Mahan, Editors, Defense Transportation: Algorithms, Models, and Applications for the 21st Century.  Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2004.