Captain Phillip R. Jenkins attended Lowndes High School, Georgia and graduated in 2008. He accomplished his undergraduate studies at Ohio University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics in December 2012. Phillip commissioned into the United States Air Force as an Operations Research Analyst in December 2012. Captain Jenkins' first assignment was to Air Force Global Strike Command A9 at Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana. While stationed at Barksdale, Phillip served as a Long Range Systems Strike Analyst and as the Chief of Force Structure Assessments. In August 2015, Phillip entered the Air Force Institute of Technology's Graduate School of Engineering and Management at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio. He graduated with a Master's degree in Operations Research as a distinguished graduate in March 2017. Phillip is currently continuing his research at the Air Force Institute of Technology as a Doctor of Philosophy student with a specialty area in optimization and a minor in applied statistics.
What got you interested in MORS
As a 61A Operations Research Analyst in the USAF, I am interested in military OR problems. I believe MORS will increase my analyst network and give me insights to how other people think about and solve realistic military OR problems.
What’s an OR problem you find intriguing or complex/interesting?
An interesting OR problem that I am currently researching is the military medical evacuation (MEDEVAC) dispatching problem wherein a dispatching authority must decide which (if any) MEDEVAC unit to dispatch in response to a submitted 9-line MEDEVAC service request.