Richard E. Rosenthal is Professor and Chairman in the Operations Research Department at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. He has a passionate interest in the application of optimization to industry, government and the military. He has been on the NPS faculty since 1984 and previously taught at the University of Tennessee and in New Zealand.

Dr. Rosenthal is the winner of a Fulbright Award (1981), a National Academy of Sciences Senior Postdoctoral Research Award (1984), and the Koopman (1990), Barchi (1992) and Rist (1993 & 1997) Prizes for military applications of operations research. He has designed a 4-day short course for OR practitioners on "Optimization Modeling and Problem Solving Using the General Algebraic Modeling System (GAMS)," and has taught it twice a year since 1988.

Dr. Rosenthal is the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Naval Research Logistics and has served as an Associate Editor of Operations Research and Management Science. He earned a BA in Mathematical Sciences from Johns Hopkins University in 1972 and a Ph.D. in Operations Research from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1975.