Kent Laukhuf
Director Of Modeling & Simulation
Washington DC-Baltimore Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKent Laukhuf is Director of Modeling & Simulation with nine years of focused experience translating operations research and advanced analytics into mission-level decision tools for defense and industry. He blends military experience as a former US Marine infantry NCO and a decade at Booz Allen with hands-on technical leadership at Data Machines Corp., delivering stochastic simulation, optimization, and game-theoretic solutions. Kent enjoys integrating non-traditional technologies—deep RL, network analysis, and unconventional data visualizations—to expand what’s possible for campaign and weaponeering modeling. He pairs a master’s in Operations Research with a background in performance (Bachelor’s in Music), a combination that shows methodical rigor tempered by creative thinking. An active contributor to open-source visualization (notably enhancements to the dygraphs R interface), he brings practical coding chops alongside program-level strategy. He seeks intellectually demanding problems and builds teams that learn fast and produce auditable, operationally relevant results.
8 years of coding experience
Bachelor’s Degree, Music Performance, Bachelor’s Degree, Music Performance at The Boston ConservatoryMaster's degree, Operations Research, Master's degree, Operations Research at George Mason University
Github Skills (7)
dygraphs10
data-visualizations10
data-visualization10
javascript10
data-visualisation10
plot10
r10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
rstudio/dygraphs
Jun 2017 - Feb 2018
R interface to dygraphs
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:15 commits, 4 PRs, 17 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Kent primarily contributed to the `dygraphs` R interface, implementing new plotters and improving existing ones. Their work included adding functionality with the `dyGroup` function to handle multiple series, custom plotters for various chart types (e.g., bar, stem, candlestick), and improvements to series options handling. These changes directly enhance the visualization capabilities and flexibility of the dygraphs library within the R ecosystem.
r-packagerstatsdygraphs
klaukh/NetworkInterdiction
May 2018 - Dec 2018
Contributions:14 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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