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Kent D. Wall
Professor Emeritus
Defense Resources Management Institute
Ph.D., Control Sciences, University of Minnesota, 1971

Kent D. Wall, professor emeritus, received a B.M.E. (1966), an M.S. in mechanical engineering (1967), and a Ph.D. in control sciences from the University of Minnesota (1971). After completing his studies, he was awarded two postdoctoral fellowships in England, the first with the University of Manchester, and the second with the University of London. While in the United Kingdom lectured at H.M. Treasury, the Bank of England, Queen Mary College, Imperial College, London School of Economics, and London Business School. He returned to the United States as a research sssociate with the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Mass. Before joining the DRMI faculty he was an associate professor of systems engineering at the University of Virginia. 

His research interests focus on the development of quantitative aids in decision making. He has published his work in many scholarly journals, including the IEEE Transactions, Automatic Control, Automatica, Proceedings of the IEE, Communications in Statistics, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Journal of Time Series Analysis, Journal of Econometrics, and Journal of the American Statistical Association. 

He joined the faculty in August of 1985 and served as assistant Director for academic programs from 1993-1998. In 1995 he was invited to present a special course in time series modeling at the University of Paris IX (Dauphine). He retired in 2018 and received emeritus status in 2019.

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