Kenley, C. Robert
LAI Research Associate
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Dr. Kenley's current research interests include the application of engineering-economic systems concepts to decision making in large-scale systems development, system-level metrics and models, and the development of methodologies that can be applied by systems engineers daily in their industrial settings. His doctoral dissertation, "Influence Diagram Models with Continuous Variables", was one of the seminal works in the field that is now known as Bayes Nets. He has developed innovative statistical models that relate easy-to-perform technology readiness assessments results to the cost and schedule needed to deploy a new technology.
He received an S.B. in Management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1975, an M.S. in Statistics from Purdue University in 1979, an M.S. in Engineering-Economic Systems from Stanford University in 1984, and a Ph.D. in Engineering-Economic Systems from Stanford University in 1986. He has worked as an independent systems engineering consultant for advanced technology development efforts sponsored by the U.S. Departments of Defense and Energy since 1998. He is currently chief editor of INSIGHT, a quarterly publication of the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE). He was employed as a systems engineer by Lockheed Martin from 1981 to 1998, working on space and nuclear systems. His assignments were in Sunnyvale, California, and in Washington, D.C., as a systems engineering fellow of the Idaho National Laboratory on detail to Department of Energy headquarters.
Dr. Kenley has authored multiple papers and journal articles in the fields of systems engineering, decision analysis, Bayesian probability networks, applied meteorology, and nuclear engineering.
In 1999 he was appointed Chair of the Ways and Means Committee of INCOSE, and in 2006 he was installed as the secretary of INCOSE. During his tenure as Ways and Means Chair, he advised INCOSE on the necessary bylaws and policy changes to meet the needs of the organization as it matured. As the secretary of INCOSE, he has been chair pro tempore of INCOSE board meetings. He also is serving as the treasurer of the INCOSE Foundation, a charitable organization that advances the development and image of systems engineering through funded scholarships, research, and international forums.
