Dr. Carleton Coffrin

Dr. Carleton Coffrin is a staff researcher at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), specializing in the application of advanced optimization methods to decision support systems in power systems and disaster management. Since joining LANL in 2016, he has focused on leveraging cutting-edge optimization techniques to address critical challenges in these domains. Dr. Coffrin completed his Ph.D. at Brown University, where he studied hybrid optimization for disaster management under the guidance of Pascal Van Hentenryck and Russell Bent. With a strong passion for optimization education, he actively contributes to the Discrete Optimization and Modeling Discrete Optimization MOOCs, sharing his expertise with a broader audience.