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Dr. Johan René van Dorp
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Paul Szwed:

Paul S. Szwed, D.Sc.
Commander, U.S. Coast Guard
Chief, Tank Vessel & Offshore Division
Leader, Salvage Engineering Response Team
Marine Safety Center
Voice: (202) 366-6449
Fax: (202) 366-7991
pszwed@msc.uscg.mil
http://www.uscg.mil/hq/msc/

Publications:

1. P. Szwed, J. Rene van Dorp, J.R.W.Merrick, T.A. Mazzuchi and A. Singh (2006). “A Bayesian Paired Comparison Approach for Relative Accident Probability Assessment with Covariate Information”, European Journal of Operations Research, Vol. 169 (1), pp. 157-177.

In August of 2002, Paul Szwed was awarded his D.Sc. in Engineering
Management from the George Washington university under the direction of J. Rene van Dorp. His dissertation topic was "A Bayesian Model for Risk Assessment using Expert Judgments about Paired Scenario Comparisons" He also holds an M.Eng. in Naval Architecture & Offshore Engineering and an M.S. in Industrial Engineering & Operations Research from the University of California at Berkeley and an B.S. in Ocean Engineering from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy.

Paul S. Szwed is Commander in the U.S. Coast Guard. He served as an engineering manager at their Marine Safety Center in Washington, D.C. where he oversees a team responsible for conducting design reviews of commercial vessel designs. He has served in the Coast Guard since 1986 and has performed a variety of marine safety, security, and environmental protection positions around the country.

Beginning in the Fall of 2003, Paul S. Szwed joined the Decision and Information Science section in the Department of Management at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in New London, CT where he teaches quantitative methods and operations research. Currently, Paul. S. Szwed holds the position of Associate Professor and is head of the department of Management.

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