Dr. Mitchell Kerman
Director, Systems Science and Engineering, Idaho National Laboratory
Director of Program Development and Transition, Systems Engineering Research Center
Idaho National Laboratory
Dr. Mitchell Kerman is Director of Idaho National Laboratory’s Systems Science & Engineering Division. Before joining INL, he was at Stevens Institute of Technology’s Systems Engineering Research Center (SERC) as the Director of Program Development and Transition. In this position he was responsible for business and program development of the SERC, a Department of Defense University Affiliated Research Center (UARC) sponsored by the Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Systems Engineering. In a little over two years he assisted in the growth of the SERC research portfolio from $5 million to more than $10 million annually. Dr. Kerman graduated with a bachelor’s in computer systems engineering from Arizona State University, and holds a master’s in operations analysis from Naval Postgraduate School. He earned his doctorate in systems engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology. He has worked over 20 years in a range of disciplines including modeling and simulation, immersive visualization, image processing and numerical analysis. He led the first successful use of live and simulated data feeds in an immersive environment and led transformative technology changes for various branches of the military and intelligence community.
Education
- Ph.D., Systems Engineering - Stevens Institute of Technology
- M.S., Operations Analysis - Naval Postgraduate School
- B.S., Computer Systems Engineering - Arizona State University
Affiliations
- Member of the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE)
- Member of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE)
- Member of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)
- Member of the Military Operations Research Society (MORS)
- Member of the National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA)