Bio

Brandon McConnell is a research associate professor in the Edward P. Fitts Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE) and the Military and Veteran Liaison for the College of Engineering. After serving as an Infantry officer in the US Army, McConnell now leads the Military Operations Research Group consisting of Operations Research (OR) and ISE students interested in military and national security challenges. He also mentors and advises active-duty and veteran students from OR and ISE. He suffers from a chronic surfing addiction.

Area(s) of Expertise

McConnell's research interests broadly include military operations research, expeditionary logistics with risk, as well as inventory control, production applications, healthcare systems, and national security. A central theme to his research is making these decisions under conditions of uncertainty or while managing a set of risks. His most current work focuses on using nonstationary queuing theory, scheduling, and forecasting to conduct capacity planning and performance analysis for expeditionary logistics networks with risk.

Publications

• Air movement operations planning heuristic improvement , Journal of Defense Analytics and Logistics (2025)
• Anticipating Household Rescue Demand in Hurricanes Using Socio-Demographic Data and Machine Learning , SSRN Electronic Journal (2025)
• Enhancing Military Load Planning: A Prioritized 2-D Orthogonal Packing Approach , (2025)
• Evaluating the Implementation of Operational Readiness and Maintenance Policies in US Army Aviation , (2025)
• Evaluating the implementation of operational readiness and maintenance policies in US Army aviation , The Journal of Defense Modeling and Simulation Applications Methodology Technology (2025)
• From Hours to Minutes: Transforming Air Movement Planning in Army Aviation , Aviation Digest (2025)
• Implementing Trades of the National Football League Draft on Blockchain Smart Contracts , (2025)
• Military maritime load planning instances for prioritized two-dimensional orthogonal packing , Open MIND (2025)
• The 2-D Orthogonal Packing Problem with Multiple Levels of Prioritization: A Spatial Optimization Perspective , (2025)
• Automated Vessel Selection and Combat Load Planning , Army Sustainment (2024)

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