David Beskow

COL David Beskow serves as an academic faculty member at the United States Military Academy (West Point) in the Department of Systems Engineering. He combines military expertise with data science, focusing on applications for cyber operations, intelligence, and special operations. His career includes combat deployments to Afghanistan and Iraq, leadership roles in infrastructure coordination, and pioneering efforts in integrating data science into military workflows.

• B.S., Civil Engineering - U.S. Military Academy
• M.S., Operations Research - Naval Postgraduate School
• Ph.D., Societal Computing - Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science

His research emphasizes machine learning algorithms for information warfare, geospatial modeling, and process optimization. He has developed DoD projects on stability modeling, microfinance portfolio optimization, and enterprise DevSecOps architecture. Beskow also established the first data science course for OSINT Intelligence Analysts at U.S. Army INSCOM and led cyber-focused research at Army Cyber Command.