W. Matthew Carlyle, PhD, is the Vice President, Provost, and Chief Academic Officer (Acting) of the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS), where he also serves as Professor of Operations Research (OR). After working for five years as a tenure-track faculty member in the Department of Industrial Engineering at Arizona State University, he joined the OR Department at NPS in 2002 as an Associate Professor. He was promoted to Professor in 2012 and served as Chair of the OR Department from 2018-2025. His research and teaching have included network optimization, large-scale optimization, linear and integer programming, and network interdiction and defense. He has received funding in support of research and student thesis work in military applications of optimization, including attack and defense of critical infrastructure, delaying adversaries’ large industrial projects and weapons programs, theater ballistic missile defense, sensor mix and deployment, naval logistics, and Navy mission planning. With colleagues in the OR department, he received the Navy Superior Civilian Service Award in 2006 for work in support of operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. He held the post of Distinguished Visiting Professor at the National Security Agency in the summer of 2006. Dr. Carlyle received his B.S. in Information and Computer Science from Georgia Tech in 1992 and his Ph.D. in Operations Research from Stanford University in 1997.