Dr. Alderson’s research focuses on the function and operation of critical infrastructures, with particular emphasis on how to invest limited resources to ensure efficient and resilient performance in the face of accidents, failures, natural disasters, or deliberate attacks. His research explores tradeoffs between efficiency, complexity, and fragility in a wide variety of public and private cyber-physical systems. Dr. Alderson has been the Principal Investigator of sponsored research projects for the U.S. Navy, Army, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard. Dr. Alderson received his doctorate from Stanford University and his undergraduate degree from Princeton University.